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Carter's reaction to the other bills is less certain. He wants lower farm price supports than Congress: $2.90 per bu. of wheat, v. $3 voted by a House committee and $3.10 by the Senate. If the Senate levels prevail, a veto is possible, and it would probably not be overridden. The $61.3 billion labor and health, education and welfare bill, which provides $2.1 billion more than Carter wants to spend, is a closer call. If the President vetoes it, he will look like a flinthearted conservative to many liberals. The White House is divided over what...
Pangs of Plenty. The biggest headache for farmers is the growing glut of wheat. Last week the Agriculture Department forecast that despite last winter's drought and destructive winds, this year's winter wheat crop would come to 1.53 billion bu., only about 3% less than last year's mammoth harvest. The total crop, including spring wheat (harvested in the fall), is expected to be about 2 billion bu. That would be slightly less than the record 2.15 billion bu. crop in 1976-but still more than U.S. and foreign buyers combined are likely...
...result, wheat prices have dropped to little more than $2 per bu., v. an average of almost $3 for last year's crop. Growers complain that if prices continue to slip they will not earn enough to cover production costs. Says Earl Hayes, president of the Kansas Wheat Growers Association: "Wheat farmers are in a severely depressed situation." Net farm income has already fallen from an alltime high of $33 billion in 1973 to $22 billion last year, and has continued to decline so far in 1977. Much of the rise in food prices in recent years, says Hayes...
...planning to feed some of the excess wheat to livestock. But that would further lower the price of corn, the principal animal feed, by reducing demand. Farmers have planted almost 84 million acres of corn, about the same as last year, when they grew a record 6.2 billion bu. Growers are concerned that the huge crop will cause corn prices to fall well below their current level of $2.35 per bu., which is nearly 20% lower than last year's price. Of all the nation's farmers, the best off are the growers of soybeans, which...
Both of these films are about childhood and both of them are by the man who is, next to Buñuel, the most distinguished Spanish director. But that is where their similarity ends. Cria! is a dark and melodramatic comedy, highly original in plot, about how a child misperceives her actions and their consequences in the adult world. Cousin Angelica, though more stylistically unconventional, is a rather ordinary story about an adult attempting to refine and correct the memories of childhood. Cria! is an almost entirely successful work, while the other, earlier film must be regarded as an honorable...