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...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...
Economic sanctions would be no more than a symbol of dubious impact. Symbolic effect, while important, must be weighed against the costs of symbolic action. Clearly a grain embargo would seriously hurt agri-business and damage the U.S. balance of trade; those costs far outweigh any symbolic gains...
Growers are still trying to sell off surpluses from last year's record-breaking wheat harvest, and this year's winter-wheat crop promises to be the most bountiful ever. The new Soviet deal, predicts Maurice Van Nostrand, research director for AGRI Industries, an association of low cooperatives, "will make a big difference News of a major new purchaser is bound to have a psychological impact on the market, and it will bring in buyers from other nations more aggressively.'' The only cloud on the horizon is the nagging poor weather-either too much...
...recent weeks, though, farmers have become concerned. Commodity markets have again fallen. The main reason: high interest rates are forcing speculators to sell. Early last month, futures prices on the Chicago Board of Trade nosedived. Says Maurice Van Nostrand of AGRI Industries, a giant Iowa grain coop: "There has never been anything like it in the history of trading...
Throughout the history of the UFW, many tactics have been employed in order to bring its message across not only to U.S. agri-business, but also to the American consumer, the UFW's most consistent ally. Strikes, picket lines, legislative campaigns, and voter registration drives have been among the tactics used, but these have been secondary only to the UFW's most powerful weapon: the consumer boycott...