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...darkness fell, the Indians sat over the oak fire and talked of Zinacantan politics, of weather and witchcraft, sickness and crops. At the center of the world things are fairly simple, after all; and it gave me a good feeling. There were only the elements, the earth, the corn, the fire, the night; and out of them a few men, asking few questions, trying to take a living, their old way of life. Will the Lord of the Earth send rain? they ask. If not, people will starve, even the people in the cities. Then they lie down on their...
Kennedy's program set out to grapple with the fact that U.S. farmers constantly overproduce feed grains-particularly corn-thereby causing prices to fall and Government surplus stockpiles to bulge. To induce the farmer to grow less, the program bribed him with subsidies: for cutting his normal acreage of corn or grain sorghums by 20%, the Government paid him 50% of the value of the forgone crop. This payment was made either in cash or in the form of grain taken from the surplus stockpiles, which the farmer could then sell or feed to his stock...
...Million Bargain. But this was only one of the lures that the Government offered the farmer to take part in the program. Farmers could sell their corn to the Government at the support price of $1.20 a bushel-about 20? above the average market price. In addition, the Government punished farmers who did not come into the program by dumping grain on the market to hold down the competitive price. Finally, the Government allowed farmers in the program to use land withdrawn from feed grains to raise other crops...
...over by these obvious advantages, nearly half of the nation's feed-grain farmers signed up for the program, agreed to cut 23.1% of their corn acreage and 31.1% of their sorghum fields. As late...
...without the skill of American farmers, who boosted production on their curtailed acreage by the liberal use of fertilizer and intensive cultivation. In addition, the summer weather through the Midwest was nearly perfect for the crops: days of warm sun broken just often enough by rain. As a result, corn and sorghum production was off only 490 million bushels. From present signs, the $1.8 billion stockpile of surplus corn will be reduced only slightly. To make matters worse, many farmers who cut feed-grain production made a killing by using their fields to raise soybeans, which the Administration was buying...