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| | Essex Agriculture |
 | | Now, switch to another vast plain of rich, fl prairie soil, dotted with the occasional farm house, surrounded by thousands of acres of farmland, few trees and not a fence to be seen... |
 | | In the short term, exploitation of fossil fuel oil for the manufacturing of nitrogen fertilizer, agricultural chemicals, energy for the planting, cultivating, harvesting, and processing of corn in Illinois, potatoes in Maine, asparagus in the Connecticut River Valley, and cranberries on the bogs in Plymouth, is a grand success. |
 | | It is not enough that US agriculture produces 40% of the world's corn, 50% of the world's soybeans, and 25% of the world's beef, with 1/3 of one percent of the world's agricultural labor force. |
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