The film King Corn demonstrates the farm industry and the fall of small farmers due to big farmers growth. Through the progression of tractors from the ‘Old Reliable’ which was the first machine to be called a tractor, to the technology of new age tractors and growth chemicals, Corn Farming production becomes extremely industrialized.
The film shows two young college graduates that set out to Iowa which is the largest corn crop in American History. These young men follow corn production and realize that in this day and age there is only one goal in mind which is the yield, to grow more and grow faster. America wants and demands cheap food which leads to degrading the food supply of its nutritional value in order to expand the produce and production.
This film showed me an inside view of something that we intake on a daily basis and take for granted. The irony of the film is how the corn growers have digressed from from producing hand farmed nutritional crop to mass quantities of machine farmed un-nutritional waste. The Iowa farmer can no longer feed himself.
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