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...wheat-belt states to plow under their winter wheat and plant corn or other crops. Inventories of winter wheat have fallen to a 50 year low, and commodity exchanges are seeing record wheat prices. The price of a May wheat futures contract has risen to around $7.00 per bushel, up from $4.95 at the beginning of February. The shortage of winter wheat is part of an overall global grain problem. Global grain production has not grown since 1990, although the world's population has increased by 440 million since then. Huge Chinese consumption exerts substantial influence over the grain supply...
...thick they had to wrap babies in wet sheets to keep them from suffocating from the dirt. A farmer turned away by the local bank herded his cows into a corner, shot them one by one and them shot himself. Dole dug up dandelions for a nickel a bushel, delivered grocery handbills, worked in the drugstore. He listened to his parents talk about how to pay the doctors treating his little brother Kenny, after his leg got infected and the poultices and maggots and lancings couldn't heal it. He vowed at the time that he would never be such...
GENERAL POWELL WITH HIS HONESTY, sincerity, loyalty and common sense would never fit in or survive in Washington. Why throw a perfectly good apple into a bushel filled with rotten ones? GEORGE S. KULAS Fond du Lac, Wisconsin...
...control, of nurturing something that won't run wild the minute it reaches adolescence. Those nostalgic for a simple, agrarian past can siphon the sense of virtue attached to the idea of a family farm, like Marie Antoinette tending her miniature dairy at the Petit Trianon. Grow a bushel of peas, and you have rooted your family in the American heartland...
...stayed in their same little house in Bismarck, North Dakota. None of their neighbors guessed that if they cashed in their stock in Joe's agency, they'd be worth about $20 million. I nagged them to diversify their portfolio -- you know, buy a bushel basket of Krugerrands and bury them in the backyard, or maybe put a few million into a mutual fund. But Mom and Dad felt this would be a no-confidence vote in Joe. ``It'd be,'' Dad said, ``like showing up for your kid's piano recital with a Walkman...