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...many parts of the country, agricultural acreage is taxed so heavily that farmers are being forced to sell out to developers. Thus much of the nation's bottom land is now sprouting condominiums rather than corn, and asphalt rather than asparagus. Massachusetts residents are presented with a solution: a proposal to tax agricultural and horticultural lands not on the fair market value (what it is worth to developers) but on the agricultural and horticultural value (what it is worth to the grower). The tax relief would apply to tracts larger than five acres that have been under cultivation...
Divorced. Andy Griffith, 46, drawling, country-boy actor (No Time for Sergeants, A Face in the Crowd), who went on to an eight-year TV stint as the corn-bread sheriff of Mayberry on the Andy Griffith Show; and Barbara Griffith, 46; after 23 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...doctor's orders, this show is forbidden to anyone who suffers from too much sugar. After a fairly sprightly opening, the "Julie Andrews Nostalgia Hour," as the series should be named, has become so mired in goo-a mixture of honey, corn syrup and Grandma's Geritol-that even the star seems unable to move...
...with whom the Soviets wheeled and dealed were officers of the large grain-trading firms that are the main conduits for moving wheat, corn, soybeans and some other commodities from farm to market. The dealers buy from farmers and sell to customers as diverse as small millers, big feed-lot operators, overseas companies and foreign governments. Dealers can provide many services, from cleaning and storing to transporting the grain. They get most of their income from the fees they charge for those services. The dealers frequently operate on slender after-tax profit margins-about .5% of sales -but their often...
...acre yield ever, and farm income has risen a healthy 8% this year. "Never in my life have I seen a situation like this," marveled a key Midwestern farm leader. "All across the board the prices we are getting for our crops are high. We see profits in hogs, corn, cattle, soybeans and wheat...