The US Just Lost the Corn-Exporting Crown

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : At the height of the Cold War, it used its ample supplies as a tool to keep communism from spreading in developing nations and even supplied about a quarter of its wheat to Russia after a crop failure in the early 1970s.
57% : Brazil's first shipment of corn under the new deal set sail in November.
44% : The next year, the US lost its wheat dominance, too, with the European Union, then Russia, beginning to elbow out American farmers in the global market.

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