Word: agri
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President to send to Congress next January, he must be desperate in the search for areas to cut He is locked into expenditures beyond even his cutting reach--interest on the national debt, social security, military, civil service and veterans' pensions, and the President's commitments to defense and agri-business Therefore the $8.5 billion in annual outlays for GRS, CDBG and UDAG are a tempting target...
...bill's sponsors cater to agri-business interests by establishing a guest worker program which would allow 50,000 Mexicans to enter the U.S. annually for temporary work, insuring continued exploitation of cheap immigrant labor...
...week in (diesel fuel, insurance fees, crew salaries and supplies. Meanwhile, the barge lines must sublease other boats to carry cargo on existing contracts. What is more, corn and soybean prices have jumped 10? to 15? per bu. in some markets, but the grain companies cannot cash in. Agri Industries, a large Des Moines grain concern, has ten barges of corn and five barges of soybeans worth about $3.85 million stuck in the river. "It's going to be costly, no question about it." says Lloyd Eneix, senior vice president of Agri-Trans, which has half...
...Atlanta-based company called AGRI-PIK Services, Inc., intends to reap profits from the PIK program by bringing together participating farmers and their suppliers. Though farmers will not receive the Government grain until harvest time, they do have certificates showing how much grain they will get then. AGRI-PIK has devised a system whereby a farmer can use the certificate to obtain credit from a number of suppliers...
...farmer turns over his PIK certificate to AGRI-PIK as security against purchases he wishes to make from dealers on the new company's roster. Those dealers then check the value of the certificate with AGRI-PIK, register the purchase that the farmer is making, and deliver the goods to the farmer. The dealers are, in effect, extending free credit to the farmer, assured that they will be paid when the PIK grain is sold next fall. AGRI-PIK charges manufacturers an enrollment fee of $1,000 to participate in this plan; dealers pay $100. For each transaction, AGRI...