King Corn Industry

Farms in America or in general are always portrayed as a large piece of land in the countryside having a house with a red barn with some animals from pigs, cows, goats, horses, fruits and vegetables they grow to sell or to use for themselves. The type of farms seen in movies or books like Charlotte’s Web and Babe. In reality these family farms depicted in our thoughts aren’t the real deal as seen in King Corn. Farms are massive in size and productivity and is seen as a huge operation of industrialization that contribute into a countries economy. Farming is now seen to me as a global industry that is bigger that what I thought it is. The film King Corn has helped me understand there are various components and steps that lead the food …show more content…
They take whatever kind of corn the government is willing to pay them to grow. If farmers decided to grow a different type of corn and did not take advantage of government aid, most farmers would go out of business and be in debt because of the high cost of farming and low crop prices. King Corn provides and illustrates insight in the corn industry and some of the consequences of relying on corn so heavily in the food we eat. Farmers today grow crops to get paid by the government to produce as much corn as possible. The substantial amounts of corn being produced has caused a large decrease in the cost of the product so that small family farms either need to harvest even more corn or they will face financial difficulty. King Corn illustrates the agribusiness the industrialized, corporate form of agriculture organized into integrated networks of agricultural inputs and outputs controlled by a small number of large corporations. The movie shows huge farming operations buying off smaller farms in the area to extend their productivity leading to increasing profit or also having these smaller farms work for them or consolidate with them because if they don’t theses owners of small farms will ultimately lose because they can’t contend with these