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Harvest Public Media
11:21 am
Thu November 22, 2012

The local-global food connection

Credit Amy Mayer / Harvest Public Media
“We need to produce as much to feed the world as we can, but also people like to eat locally grown foods, too, so there’s a case for both sides of agriculture,” says Greg Rinehart, a farmer in Boone County, Iowa.

The United States is the world’s leading producer and exporter of corn, which is used as livestock feed to support the increasing demand for meat in China, India and other countries with growing middle classes.

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