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Farmers Watch Crop Prices Plunge

Posted on July 15, 2009 by April Sun

Topics: Agriculture
Countries: United States

The U.S. farming industry has taken quite a hit recently.

Just a year ago, prices were reaching record-breaking highs. But the food-price boom has been followed by a bust, and for many farmers it's costing them more to run their farms than they are actually making by selling their crops, reports CNN.

Jimmy Wayne Kinder, a fourth-generation farmer in Oklahoma, lamented about crop prices to the New York Times. “The market says, ‘Here’s the price. You want to make any money, get below it.'" Jimmy's story is part of a New York Times series called "The Food Chain," which allows you to examine the shifting changes in global demand and actual food production through articles, video and slideshows.

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