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...staunchest backers of gasohol are farmers. If gasohol were to become a standard motor fuel, the nation's production of grain-corn, barley, oats and the like -would have to be increased by at least 50%. But, as gasohol advocates point out, the Government now encourages farmers to hold down their grain crops, so expanding production would not be too difficult. Moreover, alcohol can be produced from a variety of infinitely renewable sources. Though U.S. distillers now use mainly corn as their alcohol base, experts assert that just about any substance with a high starch or sugar content could...
Some San Joaquin farmers have coped by switching to corn, barley and other salt-tolerant crops, but this is a stopgap measure. Explains William Cerutti, 58, who tried growing walnut trees on his 700 acres: "The roots got down and they started getting to the salt. The tips start drying up, and within two or three years the trees keel over, completely dead...
...left over to make the export capacity of American agriculture the hope of the have-not world. Farm-product exports tripled in the past six years to almost $27 billion, helping mightily to offset the cost of imports. The U.S. exports more wheat, corn and other coarse grains (barley, oats, sorghum) than all the rest of the world combined. Pat Benedict and farmers like him are America's best hope to counter the trade challenge presented by the oilmen of Araby and the energetic manufacturers of Japan. U.S. food exports would be higher still were it not for a variety...
California Wheat and Barley Grower Ken Lederer, 44, waxes lyrical about the spiritual rewards of farming: "When you see all your work out there on the ground, dependent on so many things you can't control, like the frost, the bugs and the rain, you begin to appreciate how small
...little more than half of that land belongs to the U.S.; but the rest belongs to some 50 farmers who raise wheat, oats, barley and livestock there, and they don't want to move. So they have taken one acre of the threatened land, subdivided it into 4,840 parcels of about one square yard each, and offered them for sale at $20 apiece. So far, they have sold about 1,000, thus complicating to a fare-thee-well the paper work that the Government must perform to gain control of the land. At the very least, said antidam...