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...last week, farm prices were 10% above January levels and the parity ratio had climbed to 85%. Wheat, corn, oats, rye and other commodity futures were rising. Department of Agriculture economists revised an earlier forecast, predicted that net farm income in 1956 will be higher than last year...
...optimism stems from a new kind of operation of the old law of supply and demand−with overtones of Government action. The Agriculture Marketing Service estimates that farmers will harvest 24% less oats, 3% less corn, 10% less barley, 21% less sorghum grain, 5% less hay than they did in 1955. Main reasons are drought and cold weather, which not only cut yield per acre but also prompted farmers to plow their damaged crops under and join the Federal Government's soil bank. Since the soil-bank plan was inaugurated in late May, more than 10.7 million acres...
Because of election-year congressional wrangling (TIME, April 16 et seq.), the bank had got off to a late start. Most winter wheat was waving in the breezes, and most corn farmers saw more chance for profit in raising crops for the guaranteed support prices of $1.50 a bushel under acreage control or $1.25 for over allotment corn. Then came the drought. Fiery winds seared crops in Iowa, Nebraska and Kansas. Farmers looked at their parched and wilted fields, hied themselves off to the soil bank, signed on the dotted line and went back home to plow their stunted crops...
Pears & Hazelnuts. For a while Gulek tried to counter the police with Gandhian tactics-simple handshaking tours. For the last 100 miles of his trip he abandoned ship and moved by car along the lush southeastern shore of the Black Sea, where the corn grows eight feet tall and string beans climb way up over a man's head. In this country, where peasants came out to the road to present him with such local delicacies as pears and, hazelnuts, the handshaking tactics worked well enough. But in towns, where clouds of policemen sealed him off from the populace...
...unhappy coincidence, another Dole experimental diet invited the same kind of publicity. This was an unappetizing formula made of corn oil, evaporated milk and dextrose-10% protein, a whopping 48% fat and 42% carbohydrates. Vogue touted it as a "peasant diet," and last month the Ladies' Home Journal gave it the full treatment as a "fabulous formula...