The devastating heatwave that's overtaken the United States is destroying a great part of American agriculture. Forty-five percent of the corn crop has been destroyed, 35 percent of the soya bean crop, pushing the price of commodities to record highs. Overall, the global food prices have risen by 6 percent in July alone.

There's nothing they are leaving untouched: the mustard, the okra, the bringe oil, the rice, the cauliflower. Once they have established the norm: that seed can be owned as their property, royalties can be collected. We will depend on them for every seed we grow of every crop we grow. If they control seed, they control food, they know it -- it's strategic.

Paul Roberts, author of The End of Food, speaks to use of antibiotics in agriculture. April 2009 Hopefully, this isn't another case of Charlie Brown and the football, where the administration announces some needed changes, only to back off

Think Progress details the pathetic story of a Missouri farmer who wanted to make a political statement but ended up saying more than he'd ever imagin