Word: corn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...idle and somewhat sportive mood," the Des Moines Register's Chief Editorial Writer Lauren Soth wrote a few paragraphs last February inviting a Soviet farm delegation "to get the lowdown" on Iowa's prime products, corn and hogs. Moscow jumped at the offer, and Kansan Dwight Eisenhower soon endorsed the idea of exchanging farm visits...
Last week, still a bit astonished by it all, Editorialist Soth was off touring the U.S.S.R. with a group of Americans, while twelve Soviet agricultural bosses thrashed happily through Iowa's tall-corn country - shoulder deep in corn, hogs, hospitality and home cooking...
...more each year, and better than 100,000 poults. In a complex of freshwater ponds, he raises a million rainbow trout from fingerlings. The trout fatten on entrails from the dressed turkeys and on worms grown as a crop on the ranch. Water from the ponds irrigates fields of corn, and the turkeys are turned loose to fatten on the corn...
...first comprehensive estimate of this year's farm crop was announced last week by the Department of Agriculture with a note of dismay. Though wheat, cotton and corn acreage had been cut in the hope of trimming some 5% from the huge U.S. farm surplus, this year's crop is still expected to be the second biggest in history, and the biggest since record 1948. Most farmers have lived up to their word, cut their acreage of "basic" crops as directed. But farmers, who have seen their products decline 23.5% in price in four years...
Furthermore, good weather and fewer insects pushed the yields up for most crops. Corn farmers were well on their way towards producing an estimated 3,449,667,000 bushels, 16% more than last year's drought-affected crop...