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On things like cereal, candy bars, basically colas that use corn products. but we're not going to see that price effect until much later in the year. also, with livestock we're really going to see that effect happening to the price of cattle, and the price of poll try because of the feed, and right now, because the cattle and poultry can't go out and feed, graze, they're going to have a shortage on that as we get to the later parts of the year. >> in a sort of global economy the united states supplies a big portion of grain to the world. that's one consideration. another consideration might be...

Rain and they need a lot of rain right now, and it just doesn't seem to be coming, and nothing seems to be abating the heat that has enveloped not only the midwest and bread basket of this country, but the majority of this country. >> in your story last night on "nightly news" i was watching that the illinois officials said it was the greatest planting in decades, they planted more corn than before and now they are facing a real disaster in terms of it being burned in the ground. let's talk about corn and soy beans and the impact as it feeds through the economy as a whole, because corn product...

Manage it goes up. the bottom line when it comes to the economy, we get more gdp per barrel of oil than ethanoyl and natural gas. if we took government out of the equation allowed oil companies to get the energy we need we wouldn't have the problem. >> animals and milk everything is fed by corn products and the corn chi rocketed as a result of these subsidies. they are not the same kind of ethanoyl subsidies. but they're. and they are ethanoyl subsidies and there is an interesting arcticle in the wall street journal five percent of acres are going to be given or supplemented to grow more cor...

Patterns and global weather patterns. >> reporter: and it's not just clothing. food prices are skyrocketing, too. a staggering 29% worldwide. those same droughts in china, a heat wave in russia, and near biblical floods in australia have sent wheat prices soaring. 67% over the last year. floods followed by droughts in the midwest caused corn prices to jump 60% in a year. that means not only higher prices on the corn products we eat, but also higher prices for pork, beef and poultry, because the main things farmers feed their livestock, corn. >> everything's going up right now. so, we're pretty...