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By: Jim Loy

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Photographer	Jim Loy {Karma:31373}
Project	#41 Perspective	Camera Model	Nikon 8800
Categories	From The Field	Film Format	filmed in furrow vision
Portfolio		Lens	lens is geting a lesson
Uploaded	6/25/2007	Film / Memory Type	filmed in where I would like to go one day vision
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Location	City - Grand De Tour State - ILLINOIS Country - United States
About	In Grand De Tour, Illinois, John Deere set up his first workshop. There he invented and perfected the steel, self-cleaning plow. A few years ago some college students went to the place and dug around until they found the actual site of the workshop. The state of Illinois claimed it a national historic site. There is a building over the excavation. And a replica plow hanging in the distance. That wee bit of equipment turned the prairie sod into acres of Illinois Gold: corn.

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Jim Loy

{K:31373} 6/25/2007

Well done! I guess I could re-write and explain Mr. Deere made subsistence farming a reality on a slightly larger scale. The introduction of fertilizers helped make corn a commodities market whirl-wind.

Paul Lara

{K:88111} 6/25/2007

Actually, there was one other ingredient necessary for corn to become the massive commodity it is now:

Excess inventories of left over explosives from WW2.
All that sodium nitrate was just the fertilizer needed for a plant that drains all nutrients from the soil, thereby foregoing any thought of rotating crops.

Paul Lara

{K:88111} 6/25/2007

Actually, there was one other ingredient necessary for corn to become the massive commodity it is now:

Excess inventories of left over explosives from WW2.
All that sodium nitrate was just the fertilizer needed for a plant that sucks all nutrients from the soil, thereby foregoing any thought of rotating crops.

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