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Much of the mood in Minnesota has to do with the comparatively unspoiled land. Southern Minnesota is an expanse of rolling countryside, a patchwork of rectangular fields, the loam that has made Minnesota the country's third largest corn producer (after Iowa and Nebraska), the soil that yields 100 bushels of corn and 40 bushels of soybeans to the acre. To the north and west, the land flattens into prairies that merge going eastward, with hills of nearly primeval forest. The northwestern lands are more sandy, but rich enough to produce ample crops of wheat...
...Cattlemen's Hall of Fame in New Braunfels, Texas, promptly elected Goldstein Man of the Month. Jails, hospitals and college cafeterias will have to cut down on servings of meat and stretch their meals with macaroni and plentiful, reasonably priced seasonal produce, including potatoes, snap beans, corn, squash, cucumbers, bananas, peaches, cantaloupes and nectarines. At least two U.S. institutions, however, vowed to pay any price or bear any burden in order to get great portions of red meat for their highly prized charges. One was the Cleveland Browns football team; the other was Chicago's Brookfield...
...Most people lived in sod houses. So many settlers from Scandinavia and Bohemia were arriving that Willa could go for days without hearing English spoken outside her house. She was wildly excited. To her, the prairie grass looked as if it were running; it seemed possible to hear the corn growing in the summer night. In the next eleven years, the frontier was to vanish. "The great-hearted adventurers" who opened the West were replaced by men "trained in petty economies." When Cather began to write, it was already with powerful nostalgia...
...targets are much higher than the historical market price of these commodities, thus increasing the chances for bigger handouts and locking an inflationary bias into farm policy for the next four years. For example, at this time last year the selling price of wheat was $1.69 a bushel: corn was $1.30 and cotton 35 cents. In the Senate version of the bill, the Government would make up the difference to farmers if the price of wheat fell under $2.28 a bushel, corn below $1.53 and cotton under 43 cents...
...measure, however, the Soviet purchases were so surprisingly large that they disrupted the U.S. market. When the Russians came to Washington in June 1972, to seek financing for what was then a $750 million sale, they left the impression that they would want mostly such livestock feeds as corn and soybeans, of which the U.S. then had plenty. As it turned out, the Russians bought about 433 million bu. of wheat, 246 million bu. of corn and 37 million bu. of soybeans...