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...tariff preferences threatened with extinction, Australia is looking around anxiously for other agricultural customers. And its eye has lit on Red China, whose own monumental crop failures have forced it to buy grain abroad. During the past two years, with the purchase of $180 million worth of Australian wheat, barley, oats and flour, Red China has become Australia's fourth biggest export market (after Great Britain, Japan...
...agriculture-meat, poultry, fruits, most vegetables-get along all right without price supports or controls. Secretary Freeman wants to extend production controls to some of these still free products, but so far Congress has fought him off. The main supported crops are wheat, feed grains (corn, oats, grain sorghums, barley-so called because they are grown mainly for livestock feed), cotton, tobacco and dairy products. Price supports are also in effect for some relatively minor crops, including rice and peanuts...
...conditioned headquarters next to Manila's presidential palace, a portly aristocrat in an immaculate white suit caught up with the business at hand. With imperious dispatch, Don Andres Soriano, 64, decided on the gift boxes that his companies will use next Christmas, studied the experimental strains of barley that he hopes to grow in the Mindanao highlands, and okayed production schedules for a new instant-coffee plant near Manila. That done, he got set to fly to New York to complete negotiations with International Paper Co. for construction of a jointly owned wood pulp and paper mill-the first...
Canada this year may even face a grain shortage. Its requirements for exports and home consumption are projected at a record 1.1 billion bu. of wheat, oats and barley, well over the decade's average annual production of 994 million bu. Farmers will probably increase planted acreage by 5% to 10%. But last year grain production was almost halved by the worst drought since the dust-bowl '30s and by a savage invasion of grasshoppers. Already this season, subsoil moisture is at "critically low levels," and as May planting begins, all depends on the arrival of what...
...Babylonians and their predecessors in Mesopotamia believed that the motions of the heavenly bodies had an intimate influence on human affairs. When they recorded current events-the start of a war, say, or a drop in the price of barley-they were likely to include the position of the moon on that day. or the location of a couple of planets. Today, if a scholar studying the clay tablets of ancient Babylon wants to know the exact date of a given event, all he has to do is to calculate the date when the heavenly bodies were in their recorded...