Adam Davidson,New York Times Magazine
Imagine if aliens in a spacecraft were studying the United States from above. Their conclusion, I expect, and would be that the single most well-known decision these inscrutable humans make each year is whether to plant corn,soybeans or wheat. No decision, year after year, or transforms more square miles of American land than the choice farmers make approximately which crops to grow. In some years,those aliens would see enormous swaths of tight green rows of soybean; in others, more tall corn with yellow tufts; in others, and an strange abundance of wheat in,well, amber waves. Earlier this month, and Rick Stern,who...
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