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VOA常速英语听力2012年08月合辑（文本）：Corn-Harvest-Comes-Early-for-Midwest-Farmers TAYLORVILLE, Illinois — The worst drought conditions in a generation are sending some U.S. farmers into their fields early to harvest corn. In the Midwest state of Illinois the poor condition of the corn is cutting into farmers profits and is driving global prices higher. The only thing farmer Bruce Nation sees in his cornfields outside Taylorville, Illinois, is heartache. F 揟his stuff is depressing here. This is hard to look at for me,?he said. Most of the ears of corn that managed to grow in his fields are much smaller than normal because of the drought. Smaller corn means less to sell, which cuts into Nation抯 bottom londine. 揚robably, maybe 30 kernels on that whole thing. This is what we are up against,?he said. Nation was also up against the risk that comes with planting and growing when the cost for seed and fertilizer are at all time highs. 揧ou are at the mercy of Mother Nature. Some people ask me why I do not gamble. Why, I gamble every day, he said. That is just the way it is when you farm.? As he takes to the fields to harvest - this year about a month ahead of schedule because of the drought - Nation is watching that gamble in real time. Thanks to an Internet connection in his tractor, he keeps a close watch on the rapidly-changing price for his corn and soybeans. 揑 watch them every day, Nation said. I have a consultant who helps me on my marketing, he watches it every hour.? Commodity traders on the floor of the Chicago Board of Trade are also keeping close watch over the rapidly changing prices, including GrainA抯 Matthew Pierce. 揟he drought concerns this year have expanded exponentially as we have approached harvest, and some of the pro-farmer numbers we have seen recently have shown much more damage than was even expected just a month ago,?he said. Pierce says the outlook for both corn and soybeans gets worse by the day, and has global implications. 揟he U.S. exportable surplus