Word: bu
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Last year at this time the U. S. was exporting nearly 1,000,000 bu. of wheat per week. Its weekly exports now average 175,000 bu...
Total crop 832.000,000 bu...
Surplus 182,000,000 bu...
...stump Mr. Legge had been dramatically aggressive on future wheat plantings because the new Board had no precedents to bother about. Over his head hung no 275.000,000 bu. (the Board's July 1 figure) of wheat "stabilized" on Government funds. He was almost a free agent...
With another surplus in sight, Chairman Stone's biggest problem is what to do with the Government's 275,000,000 bu. holdings. This "stabilized" wheat will not soon sell abroad, where an already glutted market provoked last week's International Grain Conference at Rome.* Storage on this wheat costs about $50,000,000 (18¢ per bu. per annum), and the storage space it occupies will be needed for the 1931 crop. Idaho's Senator Borah proposes shipping it to the hungry Chinese (who do not know how to eat wheat) or burning it all up (Argentina was last week...