Word: bergland
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Queen and Kennedy might be a barkeep in Ireland. While we falter in other global competition, this season the U.S. harvest of corn, soybeans, wheat and other grains will humble even mythology. The Soviets know. With tensions high over the troops in Cuba, Secretary of Agriculture Bob Bergland was not sure Moscow's grain negotiators would even show up a few days ago to review purchases. They did, and signaled that they would buy 25 million metric tons of grain, a new high. Burly, dark-haired Boris Gordeev, Deputy Minister of Foreign Trade, leaned across a table and told...
...Bergland, the stoic Norwegian, even gets a little poetic when he contemplates the fall drama. "American gold," he calls the soybeans, which sell for $6.57 per bu. and which we export at the rate of 1 billion bu. a year. "A storybook," the Secretary says of this. The Soviet leaders study it line by line...
...often do you change your tractor tires?" Aleksei Kosygin, the Premier, asked Farmer Bergland on his last Kremlin visit. "About every 4,000 hours," he answered. "Engines?" asked the cool-eyed Soviet, a fellow normally associated with missiles and megatons, not farm machinery. "Every 10,000 to 15,000 hours," replied Bergland. The old Russian thought a few seconds and then gave his people a short lecture about the disadvantages of the Soviet policy of replacement by the calendar, not actual need...
...help U.S. farmers increase output, Bergland lifted the federal "set aside" requirement that has obliged them to keep 20% of their acreage out of cultivation...
...same time, Bergland warned that under the 1977 farm law the federal support price will drop by 330, to $3.07 per bu., next year. That decrease will be more than offset by market forces. Because of the Soviet purchases, U.S. farmers stand to sell more grain than ever at prices somewhat higher than the present $4.22 per bu. for wheat and $2.77 for corn...