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August 15 Elizabeth Cotton and Mike Soccer...
...denim," he says. In those early years, the shapes had their traditional roots as well. Miyake made a housecoat, called a tanzen, into a hooded wool coat and turned striped cloth used to lead horses on ceremonial occasions into a jersey. He made tucked cotton jumpsuits so intricate that he evoked origami, the ancient art of paper folding, and he turned a farmer's backpack into a knit jacket. Says he: "I was trying to peel away to the limit of fashion...
...like outsize scarecrows over many once verdant cornfields. In California, more than half of the acreage normally devoted to rice lies uncultivated. The cause of the crop cutback is not drought or disaster but a new federal program that rewards farmers, partly in cash and partly in grain and cotton, for taking large tracts of land out of production. Called payment in kind (PIK), the program aims to invigorate the wilted farm economy by reducing bin-busting surpluses, driving up depressed prices, cutting Government costs for farm subsidies and grain storage, and saving farmers production expenses. Alas, at mid-season...
...prompted farmers to remove from production 82.3 million acres of wheat, corn, sorghum, cotton, barley, oats and rice, amounting to 36% of all eligible crop land. The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that farmers planted only 60.1 million acres of one major crop, corn, down 27% from last year and the lowest level since 1878. Even with the acreage reductions, however, the nation's winter-wheat crop, planted last September and now in the midst of being harvested, is estimated at 1.94 billion bu., the third best crop ever and down only 8% from last year. Farmers...
...announced last winter, but not necessarily as a result of the program. Corn jumped from $2.36 in January to $3.15 this month, primarily because farmers held so much of their 1982 crop off the market that buyers had to bid up the price to get the available supplies. Cotton prices have risen nearly 10? per lb. this year, mostly because of bad weather. Eventually, however, reduced supply should strengthen prices and put more money in fanners' pockets. "The confidence level is better," says Tractor Dealer Bob Kennon of Tifton, Ga. "People are more optimistic about the fall harvest than...