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...White House served up native corn bread, lobster, beef and raspberries. Gorbachev ate it all with gusto. Clean-plate man. Former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger eyed him across the State Dining Room and thought the Russian looked remarkably serene given his troubles back home. Other Soviet experts listened to Gorbachev's long toast of muted optimism, almost a plea for true friendship, and sensed that he was a little less confident than on his Washington visit in 1987. Showtime is over, and a political animal like Gorbachev has a hard time descending to the boiler room where the work...
...economic and agricultural consequences of global warming, a group of scientists announced that while some Sunbelt farming regions in the U.S. might be devastated by a 7 degrees F average increase in temperature, other regions farther north would enjoy a longer growing season, benefiting such crops as corn and soybeans...
Time was when the Midwestern grain belt had the manicured look of a suburban lawn. In summer, rows of corn lined up neat as picket fences. In winter the plowed earth mimicked swatches of felt brushed clear of debris. But as this year's planting season gets under way, an increasing number of growers are "farming ugly" -- gunning their tractors over fields ajumble with great clods of dirt and raggedy stalks left over from last year's harvest...
Nowhere are farmers more primed for change than in Iowa, proud producer of 20% of the nation's corn. In 1988 and 1989, the state's natural resources department and the University of Iowa sampled groundwater quality in 686 rural wells. Nearly 15% of them were contaminated with one or more pesticides. For Iowa State University weed biologist Jack Dekker, the survey marked a turning point. "What we had," he says, "was a one-way arrow pointing to a problem...
...surprisingly, the most persuasive proselytizers for sustainable agriculture are those who have profited by it. Since 1981, Wilbert Blumhardt and his son Glenn have been fighting erosion on their 3,000-acre spread near Bowdle, S. Dak., by planting wheat, sunflowers, soybeans and corn in fields littered by the debris from earlier harvests. "That trash," says Wilbert, "serves an important purpose. It helps feed the soil, and it allows the water to soak in and not wash off into lakes and streams." Last year the Blumhardts' fields produced an average of 27 bu. of wheat an acre, 30% more than...