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The role of corn and soybean prices in skyrocketing food costs

Published June 20, 2022 at 9:11 AM PDT

Food prices are skyrocketing for lots of reasons, but corn and soybean crops play an outsized role. Those two touch most of the food Americans eat — and now cost double what they did two years ago.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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