Word: blights
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...between snowcapped Mount Fuji and the shimmering Pacific, the place inspired poets and printmakers to create misty images of man's harmony with nature. Today Fuji is a small city (pop. 183,000), and tourists still come by the busload. Instead of beauty, they find man-made blight...
...looks like a pile of leaves partially eroded by blight, or like a wet mop, upended, after a hard day on the kitchen floor. But this particular disaster area is no accident; it is a hairstyle, the purposeful creation of coiffeurs who see "the Ape" as the newest, most chic head around...
...year. The hops of Oregon's Willamette Valley are in the sacks. The agribusiness entrepreneurs of California's San Joaquin Valley have had another good year in cotton. The peaches of Comus, Md., have rarely been juicier. Helminthosporium maydis-the wind-borne spore of Southern corn blight-has appeared in the richest corn fields of the American breadbasket, and the damage has been serious. Yet the U.S. will still have the third best corn crop in its history...
...biggest impact of the corn blight lies in the future. Country banks, equipment dealers, and others who have made loans to corn farmers, may be unable to collect. Businessmen in small towns will suffer. The retail price of starch and corn syrup-products derived from the 15% of the corn crop not used for feed-will rise almost immediately; corn oil probably will not because it competes directly with cotton and soybean oil. The five-month supply of corn held by the Commodity Credit Corp. should also help limit price rises...
...blight will affect the retail price of corn-fed animals. Housewives are likely to find chicken prices rising in about five or six months. The record numbers of pigs already fattened may actually depress pork prices this winter and next spring, but agronomists predict that higher feed costs could drive up the price of bacon and other cuts of pork by next fall. Beef prices could also rise next fall...