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...hogs 47%. Doing that, warn Government agricultural experts, would bust the budget, raise domestic supermarket prices and squeeze U.S. farm products out of foreign markets. But the Carter Administration has made no effort to squelch the farmers' protests or strike plans. Says Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland: "I've talked to the President. The protests are a legitimate expression of concern. We're watching with sympathy and interest...
...case, Bergland anticipates better times soon. Expecting that export demands from the Soviet Union will grow next year, he expresses "guarded optimism" for grain prices. Indeed, commodity prices have risen slightly during the past two months, and farm prices were the largest contributing factor to the 1.5% increase in wholesale prices during that period-just as militant farmers were trying to drum up support for their strike...
Agriculture Secretary Robert Bergland insists that the poorer than anticipated Soviet harvest was "probably" caused by a late period of bad weather and does not simply reflect poor intelligence. Indeed, Agriculture picture analysts say they were revising their estimates of the Soviet harvest downward before Brezhnev made his announcement...
...Bergland says that he intends to "ask the Soviets to be more precise in the future about their gram requirements." He adds: "They don't always tell us exactly what their needs are." Evidently. But no major damage seems to have been done by the latest Soviet caper in the gram markets. This time the Kremlin does not stand to make as big a killing on its U.S. purchases, because they are not subsidized by the Government. The Russians will pay for their grain in cash at prices agreed to at the time of purchase. Yet their savings could...
...coal producers in Louisville, Ky., to argue that Carter's energy program envisions "coal as America's ace in the hole that will win us the energy game in the years immediately ahead." Since some 16% of U.S. petroleum fuel is used in farming, Agriculture Secretary Bob Bergland is having no problem working plugs into upcoming speeches to rural audiences. One of his suggestions: the use of solar power to heat hen houses. Vice President Walter Mondale joined the parade with a pitch on NBC's Today show...