Word: corns
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weather was national news again, and this time, good news: the warm June sun had repaired much of the contrary spring's damage. Now that the wheat was at harvest and the corn growing fast, the late freezes and May's disastrous floods were all but forgotten. Barring drought, this would not be a bad year after...
...About 107,000,000 tons of feed grains (corn, oats, barley, sorghum), 14% below last year but 7% above average...
...Heretofore the record pig crop has been kept off the market by Administration food-and-price policy. The Agriculture Department guarantees hog raisers a $13.75 per 100 lb. "floor" price-put in effect last year to stimulate hog production. The Office of Price Administration has a $1.07 ceiling on corn. Thus the hog corn ratio is artificially maintained at 13-to-1-so high that farmers would be foolish to do anything with their corn except feed it to hogs...
...Paralyzed the corn market. (Poultry raisers, dairy farmers and commercial users, who need corn so badly that milk may have to be rationed in some states, are unable...
...Created an actual corn shortage. (If hogs continue to consume corn at the present rate, the U.S. will have only 25,000,000 bu. at next season's end-one-twelfth the normal carry-over...