With a great deal of research and pontification, here is my forecast of what will happen in agriculture in 2010. Have a Happy New Year.

Food trends, biofuels, world hunger and mid-term politics converge in 2010:

Convinced of the importance of renewable energy, First Lady Michelle Obama converts her White House organic garden into a corn field. Using eight-stack traits, she receives an honorable mention in the National Corn Growers Association yield contest.

The Food Channel will focus more on local, organic gardening food trends, leading someone to create an alternative, fast-food, high-protein programming --- the FOX Food Network.

USDA will announce an historic agreement to reduce cow flatulence. Wait, I think that already happened ... There will be a tax proposed for cow flatulence in the U.S. Senate.

A national agricultural organization will affirm its policy questioning the science behind climate change. Three weeks later that group will issue a news release asking for billions in crop-disaster aid to deal with the worst crop losses to hit since 2009.

Monsanto Co. buys Scotts Miracle-Gro and patents a new gene responsible for all lawn grasses. The company starts collecting tech fees from every lawn owner across the country. The U.S. Department of Justice decides it will hold public hearings on the matter sometime in 2016.

Meeting the needs of its customers, Deere & Co. will unveil a 32-row air boat planter for 2011, along with the 15000 series harvester-snow plow combine.

Eyeing the 2010 congressional races and looking to top last August's rallies on health care, Democratic leaders will roll out a comprehensive immigration reform bill in July.

Responding to new data, scientists with the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change release a study showing e-mails are a major emitter of greenhouse-gas emissions.

A global issue affecting poverty, world hunger, the environment, the future, dogs and cats living together and life outside our galaxy will cause world leaders to hold a summit in someplace like Rome, Geneva, Copenhagen or Hong Kong where government officials and protestors can keep collecting Marriott points. They will then plan to hold a similar summit in 2011.

A hacked email scandal will reveal that Michael Pollan, author of "The Omnivore's Dilemma" and "In Defense of Food," owns stock in Tyson Foods, McDonald's and Wal-Mart.

Following a year of slumping prices, livestock and poultry markets will rally after the New York Times writes that meat is trendy again on the East Coast.

Conservative pundits will discover the "farmer death panel" provisions in the House climate bill. GOP senators demand more analysis from USDA on the subject.

The Global Harvest Initiative buys the copyrights to a song and rolls out its marketing campaign, "We Are the World."

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