Picking on the New York Times is fun

David Appell caught this goof from a front-page article in the New York Times (still not corrected online):

The Bush administration and agricultural businesses view the policy as simple protectionism because American companies, which dominate the biotechnology industry,would benefit most from lifting the ban. Without it, American companies would export about $300 billion more in corn each year than they do now, according to the American Farm Bureau Federation. [Emphasis added]

Um...that's $300 million.

Not for nothing, but didn't anybody at the Times say: "Hey, we sell a quarter-trillion dollars worth of corn to Europe?!? That's a lot of corn!"