The Last Week Tonight host looks into federal subsidies effects and ethanol standards upholding ‘America’s No 1 crop’John Oliver dug into the US corn industry on Last Week Tonight, from how the government subsidizes it, to its many uses and the effects of its dominance. The US is the world’s largest producer of corn, and produces more of it than any other crop. Farming it is a nearly $90bn industry; corn fields occupy nearly 90m acres a year, or about 5% of the land surface in the contiguous... Read this story
