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Wholesale prices received by farmers for some key products have dropped sharply since last winter (see chart); between February and May, wheat fell from $5.52 a bushel to $3.52, and corn from $2.76 to $2.45. Food processors and retailers have by no means passed the full decline along to consumers as yet. In fact, retail food prices overall rose .9% in May, but meat, poultry and egg prices went down...
With the Government openly aiming for an eventual reversal of the drop in wholesale meat prices, the consumer's best hope for lower food bills lies in the grain belt, where record winter wheat and corn harvests are shaping up. Drought, plant disease and heavy rains have cut the crops below earlier estimates, but the Agriculture Department still projects the wheat harvest at 1.5 billion bushels, or 21% more than...
...loaf can cost -not including labor cost-about half as much to produce as the presliced, vitaminized, super-enriched, deflavorized belly wadding advertised on TV. It can not only have toothsome flavor and infinite variety, but may represent a return to simple joy, as raising one's own corn or tomatoes does, or planting a pear tree, or hunting wild berries for jelly...
...acre farm. In 1971 Angus' brother had a stroke, leaving him a semi-invalid, and the burden of running the farm fell to Angus and his mother. Angus rose at 5:00 a.m. to do his chores, and some times worked in the fields-raising soy beans, corn, cattle and hogs-until midnight. During the day, he maintained an almost-straight-A average at the local high school. His dream had long been to attend an Eastern college, preferably Harvard...
What Good. The district's 13,000 white farmers, who raise cattle, corn and tobacco on prosperous large farms, have had to be resilient to stay on as long as they have, but many are now wavering. Reports Griggs: "I visited the farm of George Louw, a typical one planted mostly in tobacco. Louw is not his real name; several farmers who talked for publication have had their farms targeted for follow-up attacks. Louw was hit in early 1973. A ZANU squad sneaked up to the bedroom where he and his wife were asleep, and lobbed seven grenades...