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Quite casually, Canada's big, able Trade Minister James Angus MacKinnon rose in the House of Commons to make an announcement of import to the whole world. The Government had decided, he said, to hold down the Canadian export price of wheat to $1.55 a bushel...
...decision was made in the face of a mouth-watering fact: because of world shortages Canada could probably get any price she wanted, within reason, for her wheat. Canada could at least get the going U.S. price of $1.70 a bushel ($1.90 in Canadian money), which would delight wheatgrowers in a bad crop year...
...Farmers. To make the new policy palatable to Canada's wheat farmers, the Government accompanied it with a guarantee: there will be no 38? wheat as there was in the 19305; Government subsidies will give wheatgrowers a minimum of $1 a bushel for their wheat for at least the next five years...
Stephen L. Higgins & wife of Sanford plopped calmly out on a Maine tidal flat, began blitzing the bivalves with a common rubber suction plunger (the kind used on a stuffed-up toilet). cIn the time it takes an uninitiated digger to gather several dozen clams, the Higgins had two bushels of them (current price: $4 a bushel...
...wheat crop is expected to be the largest ever. The wet, cold weather that delayed corn planting failed to harm the winter wheat which was planted last autumn. But despite a record crop (1.1billion bushels), for every bushel of wheat used to feed cattle at home there will be one less bushel available next winter to ship to hungry mouths in Europe...