Word: bushelful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most aggressive farm groups in this field has been the Nebraska Wheat Growers Association. Four years ago, alarmed at the loss of overseas markets, the Nebraskans started levying a quarter-cent-a-bushel tax on all the wheat produced and sold in their state. The funds, amplified by foreign counterpart (local currency) funds at the disposal of the Foreign Agricultural Service, were used to run wheat laboratories in Lima and New Delhi to test local grains, in the process show mills what good U.S. wheat grades to order to make more nutritious, more bakable bread. The work went over...
Easy Pickings. The drop in prices was largely seasonal, although the surplus was the result of the revolution in egg raising. Not only do today's hens lay twice as many eggs per bushel of feed as their grandmothers did, but their peak laying period has been prolonged. The new, automated egg operations have made egg raising so easy that virtually every section of the country now mass-produces eggs. The Southeastern states until five years ago were major egg importers; they are now major exporters, and many Southern eggmen predict that in a few years they will raise...
...Commerce Minister Gordon Churchill is also considering a personal selling visit to the Soviet Union, and possibly Red China, to try for bigger orders from last year's most surprising new customers. The one major stumbling block to bumper business is the U.S., which is completing a billion-bushel harvest of its own and is just as anxious as Canada to cut down wheat stocks. Canadians think they can more than hold their own. Though the U.S. wheat is likely to be cheaper on world markets, its quality is lower, cannot compare to Canada's rich harvest from...
...awkwardness of the U.S.'s federal farm programs was revealed once again last week in a problem faced-and solved, after a fashion-by Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson. To avert a threatened collapse in hog prices next year, Benson offered to support this year, at $1.10 a bushel, any and all corn grown by Corn Belt farmers who ignored the Agriculture Department's acreage controls (for farmers who complied with controls, the support price is $1.36). He was "sorry," said Benson, but he just had to take the step, because if free-market corn prices fell...
...ultimate contradiction, the Administration put into effect a support price lor corn grown outside the acreage limitation program, i.e., a guaranteed market of $1.25 a bushel for those who thumbed their noses at crop-restriction programs...