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...grasped the true faith is Bob Johnson, who helps run his family's 2,800-acre pig farm near De Kalb, 111. Outside, the winter's first snowflakes have dusted the low-slung roofs of the six red-and-white barns and the brown fields specked with corn stubble. Inside the two-room office building, Johnson slips a disc into his computer and types "D" (for dial) and a telephone number. He is immediately connected to the Illinois farm bureau's newly computerized AgriVisor service. It not only gives him weather conditions to the west and the latest hog prices...
Johnson's computer now knows the yields on 35 test plots of corn, the breeding records of his 300 sows, how much feed his hogs have eaten (2,787,260 Ibs.) and at what cost ($166,047.73). "This way, you can charge your hogs the cost of the feed when you sell them and figure out if you're making any money," says Johnson. "We never had this kind of information before. It would have taken too long to calculate. But we knew we needed...
...sounds like a rural version of the coals-to-Newcastle bit: giving farmers wheat, corn, rice and cotton. In fact, the payment-in-kind (PIK) plan unveiled last week by Agriculture Secretary John Block is an intriguing idea that just might reduce bulging Government stockpiles and prop up depressed farm income...
...painter, became one of America's midway masters in his Florida studio. He once built a 9-ft.-tall animated elephant stepping on a convicted Hindu for a traveling "torture show." Behind these neon-bright screams for attention, one can almost hear the barker . and smell the caramel corn...
...elaborate ingredients are needed, so you won't be left with half a bag of flour of a barely used bottle of corn syrup. Some ingredients can even be picked up in the dining hall. It doesn't really matter if you don't finish all the ingredients anyway, since leftovers such as chocolate chips are guaranteed to disappear in any room...