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Benedict makes a quick trip by pickup truck around his 3,500 acres of wheat and sugar beets. At each of many stops he whips out a pocket calculator and does some rapid figuring before giving the hired hands orders on, say, exactly how much pesticide to spray on each...
(3 of 11) world?has more than doubled the price of U.S. farm land since 1972, to an average $490 an acre last February; prime Midwestern corn and soybean land sells for $2,000 an acre. A tractor that sold for $16,000 in 1974 may cost almost twice as...
He does not get pains, but Benedict admits to some anxiety about taking over failed farms: "Any farm closing is traumatic. You worry that the fellow who sells out knows something you don't because he's shutting down and you're taking on debts to expand." But in his...
Minnesota Wilderness. Congress resolved a long dispute between environmentalists and commercial interests by deciding that Minnesota's Boundary Waters Canoe Area, a million-acre wilderness area along the state's border with Canada, should remain free of logging and mining. Moreover, motorboats and snowmobiles will be severely restricted...
Last week the businessmen sold the statue to Bud Scott, a basketball coach at a local college, who thinks that it will be. just the thing to attract people to his 110-acre campground, recreation area and Christian retreat. None of which would have bothered Lincoln, who once remarked during...