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This week and last, in Illinois and elsewhere, the harvest intruded on that lush prairie silence. Sitting in a cab 9 ft. above ground, Steffen steered his rumbling 1970 John Deere combine up and down the quarter-mile-long rows. Each ear of corn was picked, shucked and stripped of...
As farm failures increase, young farmers are hurt disproportionately, because they are disproportionately in debt. Unless their farms were inherited, farmers in their 20s and 30s were obliged to pay a lot to get started. The average price of farm land, adjusted for inflation, increased by 75% during the 1970s...
The Government has not paid farmers to keep fields fallow for several years, and the idea seems inherently repellent. But many farmers feel there is no ready alternative. "If I cut back and my neighbor cuts back," says Chappel Sides of Mississippi, "that won't do it. The Government...
MIT acquired its major portion of the property--the Simplex area--from the old Simplex cable and Wire Company in 1970. It did not acquire the full 27-acre site until 1980, however, and it began seeking a developer last spring
No actress played high comedy better than Grace Kelly during the six years (1951-56) that her film career flared so beguilingly, and what fascinated the groundlings was that she seemed to be living the roles as well. Last week, 28 years after she met Prince Rainier of Monaco during...