Word: bluestem
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Dates: during 1957-1957
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...farms, 1,500 acres, for an average $62.50 an acre. They plan to farm only the best 200 acres, but can put 771 of the poorer acres into the soil bank's "conservation reserve." For covering this land with Sudan grass now and sowing a permanent cover of bluestem and grama grasses next year, they expect the Government to pay upwards of $15,000, about 80% of the seed and sowing costs. This subsidized sowing qualifies the land for federal "rent" at $11 an acre this year and, under a ten-year contract beginning in 1958, an ultimate total...
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