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...fine print in a Eurobond offering. Not, however, to the traders and speculators who wheel and deal on the floors of the commodity exchanges of the Midwest, where most of the nation's grain trading takes place. For the high rollers in the mysterious world of wheat and corn futures, soybean stop orders and daily limit moves, commodities are the stuff of fast fortunes...
...example, that an Iowa farmer expects to harvest 50,000 bu. of corn in six months' time. By checking with his broker, he finds that the six-month future price of corn is $2.75 per bu. The farmer calculates that $2.75 per bu. for his crop would be a fair price, so he guarantees that he will get it by "hedging," or agreeing in advance to sell a contract for 50,000 bu. at that price in the futures market. This protects him against a drop in grain prices...
...ideal spot for nurturing champagne grapes, the Midwest's long growing season, heavy spring or summer rains and rich, two-foot-deep topsoil are perfect for grain cultivation. Kansas and Oklahoma are wheat country. Just north in the hardy soil of Illinois and Iowa lie the great corn belt and vast fields of soybeans. Farther north, in the Dakotas and Minnesota, grow wheat, soybeans, sugar beets. Here is the richest farm land east of Eden, where the biblical seven years of bountiful harvests are usually followed not by famine but by seven more years of plenty...
...wheat a day, vs. 85 acres in 1950. Meanwhile, land grant state universities, which were started under a program of President Lincoln's, have researched and spread technological breakthroughs. Out of the agricultural experiment stations in the early 1930s came means of cross-pollinating two types of purebred corn. The resulting hybrid was particularly hardy and produced 50% higher yields. Later the Green Revolution, for which U.S. Scientist Norman E. Borlaug won the 1970 Nobel Peace Prize, produced more bountiful strains of wheat with strong stalks to bear the weight of larger yields. U.S. wheat output likewise increased...
Pesticides and herbicides were produced by researchers in companies, universities and the Government to conquer the plagues of locusts and other insects that regularly beset grain crops. Bug-and disease-resistant seeds were developed. As a result, U.S. corn country has not suffered a severe blight since 1970. During the past decade petrochemical fertilizers again increased harvests...