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...Dakotas, farmers are stuffing unsold wheat into their sheds, leaving tractors and combines out in the cold. An abandoned coal mine near Quincy, Ill., and an ammunition depot in Hastings, Neb., were recently readied for the storage of surplus grain. A few Iowa farmers are even planning to burn corn instead of oil in their furnaces this winter, and government officials in Nebraska are promoting the use of popcorn as a packing material. Says one Cornhusker official: "Gotta get rid of the damn corn somehow...
...farmers broke alltime records this fall for corn, wheat and soybeans, harvesting more than 13 billion bu. of the three crops combined. They grew another 1.94 billion bu. of oats, barley and grain sorghum. But elevators, silos and bins are already swelling with a 4.39 billion-bu. carryover from last year's bumper crop. Although new storage facilities are being built at a record rate, they will not be enough to hold this year's harvest. Empty barges and railroad hoppers, airplane hangars, even high school football fields and city streets are being pressed into service as makeshift...
...because the recession has reduced meat sales and consumers are switching to cheaper poultry and other substitutes. What is hurting U.S. farmers most, however, is a drop in overseas sales, which in the past decade have become vitally important. Foreign buyers now take one-third of all U.S.-grown corn, one-half of its soybeans and two-thirds of its wheat. But demand is lagging in the face of the worldwide recession, stiffer competition from other countries and the strong dollar, which makes American-produced goods more expensive and the crops from Canada and Argentina more appetizing. As a result...
...main concern was a spate of incidents involving candy that had been tampered with. In the Long Island suburbs of New York City, two women discovered straight pins in Candy Corn and Baby Ruth bars. Another straight pin turned up in a KitKat bar in Norwalk, Conn., and a sewing needle in a candy bar in Pensacola, Fla. In Chicago, three children became ill after eating KitKat bars...
...from Jacksonville, Ill., Ronald Reagan stood in front of a farm wagon piled high with freshly harvested corn, defied the cold winds and predicted a warm economic climate just ahead. "It takes gumption to stick with longer-term solutions," he declared during a denunciation of the economic policies of past Democratic Administrations. "I don't want to go back. Do you?" Standing ankle-deep in the dark mud, about 4,000 farmers murmured no. Like the rest of the nation, even this partisan campaign crowd sounded slightly unsure about the political course the nation should take...