Word: corn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production in the Midwest is 30 to 40% less than a year ago, despite a bumper crop of feed corn. The reason: the price of corn is fixed too high in relation to the fixed price of hogs...
...Packers are buying the cheaper-and lighter weight-grass-fed cattle instead of corn-fed cattle. Reason: because the prices of corn and range cattle are high, fattened cattle are too expensive. Midwest feed-lot operators charged that this resulted in a senseless waste of meat. Cattle moving from the ranges to the feedlots for finishing on corn would gain 300 to 500 Ibs. of rich, marble-grained beef...
Saga of the Pork Chop. Early in the war, when Government agencies asked the farmers to raise more hogs, they were promised a reasonable profit. To make sure they got it, OPA clamped a ceiling on the price of corn (averaging $1.07) and WFA put a floor price of $13.75 cwt. under the hog market...
Then, to the farmers' consternation and anger, the agencies tried something else. To get corn into other markets, OPA boosted the ceiling price of corn. But instead of raising the floor under hogs, WFA dropped its support price to $12.50. The enraged farmers knew what to do about that. To save expensive feed, they dumped their hogs on the market...
Silently the opium gatherers moved among the flowers, sometimes hidden from sight among the rows of corn. With knives and razors they slashed a "V" in the egg-shaped fruit over the big poppy petals, tapped out drops of white slime into tin cans and paper sacks. If they could slip past the soldiers, they could sell the stiffened slime, crude opium gum, to gun-toting dealers. The rewards were great; and it was certainly easier than raising tomatoes, which spoiled on the burros' backs on the long trails to market...