The U.S. unemployment rate may have reached a 26-year high of 9.6% last month but that didn't stop TIME magazine from running an article laying out the case for, of all things, raising the price that financially-strapped American consumers pay for their food.
In the past year, the U.S. government has had to bail out the financial sector, bail out the auto industry, infuse more than $800 billion of stimulus into the economy (running up a record $1.7 trillion deficit in this year alone), and now it seems to TIME magazine that the timing is right to break American agriculture.
| "[I]f all agriculture were organic, you have to increase cropland area dramatically, spreading out into marginal areas and cutting down millions of acres of forests... There's a lot of nonsense going on here."
-- Norman Borlaug
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The roads along the border of Minnesota and North Dakota are scattered with what look like concrete slabs with misplaced fans and farm equipment. But what may look like an eyesore to someone from the city is actually big business for rural communities in this region.
