This article, subtitled "Following the food chain back to Iraq," includes 
some discussion of Iowa agriculture and prairies.  It's by Richard Manning, and 
was the February HARPER'S MAGAZINE cover story.  It's an interesting piece that 
deals with ecology, economics, and politics.  Here's a brief excerpt:  
"Iowa's fields require the energy of 4,000 Nagasaki bombs every year."

If you can't find the magazine, the article was posted online, last time I 
checked:  

 http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2004/02/280191.shtml   


Cindy Hildebrand
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57439 250th St.
Ames, IA  50010

"Iowa is said to be a prairie state, but what is a prairie to the present 
generation?  Within 40 or 50 years, the broad stretches of tall shining grass 
trembling in the sunlight or tossed by the breezes into billowy waves, gorgeous 
as the season progresses with its pageant of brilliant hued flowers... is fast 
passing..."  (Ada Hayden)

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