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I'm in the Mojave desert in California ...... Sounds hot right? ...... but surprisingly it's freezing cold .......

And whats more I've had no internet for a while ........ Even now it seems to be coming and going ..........

I gather the Sunday Times Mag (UK) ran a story I contributed to about Cargill on the Sunday just gone ..... 'The biggest company you never heard of' ........ Cargill is a pretty amazing global food business ........ Basically it supplies the actual food raw material to the famous companies that further process it into the food products we all know and love ..............

I shot this picture above as part of the story ...... in a giant field of corn ......... part of the I-80 Farms crop in Colfax Iowa ....... On this farm they grow hundreds of thousands of tons of corn to supply to Cargill ........ It really was an amazingly efficiently run business with incredible gleaming corn harvesting machinery looking more like it belonged in a Ferrari showroom more than on your average farm ...........

But in the end all arable farming is down to the crop ......... the actual plants themselves ........ It was incredible to walk into these giant fields of corn ...... apparently people do wander into them and get fully lost especially children ............... because you cannot see out from these tall plants ....... And the fields are totally massive it's really easy to lose your bearings ..... Apparently some farmers are deploying drones to monitor these huge expanses of crop ...........

Anyway you should check out Danny Fortson's article in the Sunday Times Mag....... that is if you have halfway reasonable internet or a physical copy of the magazine ....... I myself have not been able to check it out myself having neither ........ I can't even get the BBC or anything at the moment on the net ......... the internet service in this hotel is slightly doing my brains in right now.

Cheers Jez XXXXXXXXXXXXXX

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