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...Russia, said Minister of Agriculture I. A. Benediktov, is on the way to a bumper wheat crop...
...encouragement worked well. Potato production in 1943 reached an all-time high of 464,999,000 bushels, there was plenty for all. But last week the Government was reaping a bumper crop of wastage from the seed it had so generously sown. Perfect weather and DDT combined with the Government incentive to boost this year's crop to a near-record...
...miracle worked by sun, soil, rain and the hardworking U.S. farmer was almost awesome. For four years of war, despite woeful manpower shortages and the hazards of frost, drought, insects and disease, the nation's farms had produced bumper crops with machine-like regularity. Now, in defiance of the odds, the land was heavy with crops once more. They were so prodigally good that the U.S. would be able to go on feeding half a world and still provide bigger meals for the dining-room tables of its own wellfed people...
Vital Industry. In Miami Beach, the National Institute of Diaper Services postponed its annual convention, gave its reason: diapermen were too busy with a "bumper crop of babies...
Last week the Department of Agriculture, in its July crop report, gave one answer: a bumper crop. If the present good weather holds, the U.S. should have a record corn crop of 3,341,646,000 bushels, 28% better than average; and 1,090,092,000 bushels of wheat. There was even optimistic talk that, with good crops in Canada, France and other countries, the demand for food would ease and grain prices would come down. Meanwhile, the retail prices of everything made of grain, bread, syrups, etc. were bound to go up to match the sky-high wholesale prices...