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...consequence is that farmers like Walters have adopted some basic corporate principles: efficiency and diversification. This year the Walters will use their own and additional rented land to plant 1,000 acres of corn, 400 of soybeans and the remainder in hay and oats. Over the year they will fatten 800 cows and 1,500 hogs for market. Says Dick Walters: "If one thing fails, you have an opportunity to balance out your loss." Walters' crop mix is typical. He usually grows corn on a particular field for two years, then switches to soybeans for a year. Gone...
Status Symbols. The absence of materialism noted by the visitors is not quite as real as meets the eye. In areas of southern China, remittances from abroad make a considerable difference. Those who get them lunch on meat or fish; those who do not, most frequently lunch on corn dumplings and salt soup (made by boiling water with a few vegetable leaves). Peasants are allowed to own small plots and to sell the produce on a limited free market. City workers spend about one-third of their income on food and are still concerned with the things money...
...General Motors strike. On the other hand, services continued their steady march upward (except for the mortgage rates, which, like other non-goods, are considered services). Food prices rose more than usual for the early part of the year. Considering that they might be forced higher by an impending corn blight and the drought in the Southwest, and that neither mortgage rates nor auto prices are likely to fall further, few economists are as yet convinced that the price steadiness will be maintained for the year as a whole...
...Corn Products...
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