<div class='node-body'><p>Some of the largest farmers in the US are warning the government that the mandated biofuels provisions that demand grain crops to be converted into ethanol for gasoline will make an impending &quot;food crisis&quot; much worse.</p></div><div class="field field-type-filefield field-field-news-hp-image">
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