Word: corns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third of what it was last year. The peanut plants, normally large and verdant, the size of trash-can tops with diminutive yellow flowers nestled in their leaves, are Frisbee size, no more than 12 in. wide, and wilting. As for Dawson's usually rich crop of corn, folk wisdom has it that the stalks should be "as high as an elephant's eye by the Fourth of July," but now they are only three or four feet tall and not likely to grow much higher. Says Bobby Locke, head of the agricultural commission of the Dawson Chamber...
...MIDWEST. Near St. Louis, Six Flags Over Mid-America is a corn-belt version of its lively Texan Six-Flagship. At Gurnee, Ill., halfway between Chicago and Milwaukee, is Marriott's Great America, with its ten-story-high carrousel. Not to be missed is Cedar Point, 50 miles west of Cleveland, one of the few old-style amusement parks to have made it into the theme...
...picture is very different; the farmers who are gathering the big harvests are in a mood of wintry discontent. Prices for some of their most important crops are sliding, and their incomes are falling. Now farmers want Government help in the form of higher subsidies, especially for wheat and corn-to the embarrassment of President Carter, who has threatened to veto any farm bill so generous as to imperil his goal of balancing the budget...
Some farmers are planning to feed some of the excess wheat to livestock. But that would further lower the price of corn, the principal animal feed, by reducing demand. Farmers have planted almost 84 million acres of corn, about the same as last year, when they grew a record 6.2 billion bu. Growers are concerned that the huge crop will cause corn prices to fall well below their current level of $2.35 per bu., which is nearly 20% lower than last year's price. Of all the nation's farmers, the best off are the growers of soybeans...
Open Confrontation. Peanut Farmer Carter has proposed raising the targets in 1978 to $2.90 for wheat and $2 for corn (v. $ 1.70 now). He calculates the cost to taxpayers at $2 billion a year, and has theatened to veto any farm measure that raises the tag. But the Senate has passed a bill that would cost almost twice as much; the House is preparing to vote on a measure priced at $2.3 billion. Both want to raise target prices this year. The differing versions will have to be reconciled in a joint conference, and the final bill is not expected...