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The role of corn and soybean prices in skyrocketing food costs

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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