Crop Comments: Comic addresses U.S. corn’s non-comedy
Crop Comments
June 6, 2024

Crop Comments: Comic addresses U.S. corn’s non-comedy

From his Connecticut residence on May 26, my son Peter forwarded me a 25-minute video. In it, John Oliver, a transplanted English comic, discusses U.S. corn, its production, politics and ecological and economic impact. Check out “Corn: John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight” here. Oliver begins on a

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