Corn farmers have struggled to make a profit, surviving on subsidies during a decade of low prices.

The residents, corn farmers, have an average per capita annual income of $160.

In order for corn farmers to generate any profit, they basically take whatever price they can get for their crop.

Unfortunately, commodity corn farmers have little control over the price they receive for their product.

This encouraged corn farmers to grow as much as possible and to sell their crop at any price.