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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Except corn and cotton, on which first reports are made as of July 1 and August 1, respectively...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Fat Year | 6/21/1937 | See Source »

...shipment of the new crop went to market in Texas. Behind the squeeze was no crafty manipulative scheme to pinch the bears for profit. It was simply a scarcity of grain, resulting from last year's drought and AAA restrictions. In the previous five years the U. S. corn crop averaged nearly 2,300,000,000 bu. annually, a figure itself on the lean side because of the very short crop in 1934. Yet last year all the corn land in the country produced only 1,500,000,000 bu. The carryover from the previous crop was a piddling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Corn Squeeze | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

Thus the U. S. entered the corn year last October with nearly 800,000,000 bu less than is usually needed to feed the country's hogs, cattle and poultry. (The bulk of the corn crop goes to market as pork beef lamb, duck, turkey, chicken, milk,' eggs' butter.*) To fill their feeding troughs farmers have had to use wheat, oats rye barley, pieced out with Argentine corn 'in the six months through last March corn imports from the Argentine amounted to 42,000,000 bu., more than three times as much as in the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Corn Squeeze | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...sooner had trading ended in May contracts than speculative attention shifted to July and September contracts, both of which carried on the corn boom by spurting the full 4?-per-bu. limit allowed in one session. No matter how tall the corn grows this year, the 1937 crop will not start to market until October. July corn got above as the high as $1.25 per bu., nearly 10?above the same wheat delivery. And the terrific demand for grain in hand for settlement of May contracts continued to be visible in a 13?to 14? premium on cash corn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Corn Squeeze | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

...Smart farmers use the so-called 12-10-1 corn-hog formula to determine whether it is more profitable to sell corn as corn or as pork The formula: when 100 Ib. of hog is worth more nan 12 bu. of corn, raise hogs: when worth less, sell corn. At farm prices hogs are now sellmg for about $11 per cwt., while 12 bu of corn are worth more than $15. Thus corn is favored. Originated during the War when Herbert Hoover, the Food Administrator, was trying to boost hog production, the formula is actually 11.6-to-1, but farmers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Corn Squeeze | 6/7/1937 | See Source »

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