Word: bu
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of the upsurge was the Department of Agriculture's midseason crop report, even though prospects were described as "surprisingly good." The bumper wheat crop, greatest in U.S. history, looked even bigger than it had a few weeks ago. Now the estimate was for 1,436,000,000 bu...
Chain Reaction. But reports of corn were far from good. Cold weather and floods had taken a heavy toll, leaving an estimated yield of only 2.6 billion bu. The crop was still almost up to the 1936-45 average, but it was down 21% from last year. Good weather, said the report optimistically, might brighten the corn picture considerably. But corn users, not willing to take that chance, started to buy heavily...
...ease the pressure on prices, the Department of Agriculture canceled a July-August allocation of 6,740,000 bu. of corn for export and decided to substitute wheat, barley and grain sorghums. For all the abundant expectations, the demand for wheat was already being heightened by harvest trouble. Rains had already put the harvest behind schedule. And though there were more combines at work than ever before, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas were yelling for still more...
...Actually, the U.S. could stand the drain on its food resources without even tightening its belt. Production was high. The Agriculture Department predicted a bumper 1947 wheat crop of 1,240,000,000 bu., compared to 1,185,000,000 last year. Despite 14 million more mouths than before the war, per capita food consumption in the U.S. had increased 16%. In 1946 the U.S. supplied the world with a net of $6.6 billion of goods and services, but this was only 3.4% of the total value of goods & services produced by a comparatively fat and wealthy land. Far from...
...four more years Elyniak worked for farmers at Gretna, drew $80 a year plus 80 bu. of wheat and 40 bu. of barley. He bought a team of oxen, two cows, 30 chickens, a wagon and a plow, shipped them west to Edmonton in a freight car, then drove another 50 miles east to Chipman. There he settled with other Ukrainians, raised three sons and four daughters. The homesteading was rough, but not as hard as in the Ukraine...