Word: crop
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...note (Frank 0. Lowden, Aaron Shapiro, Sam Thompson), with a conference of cooperative marketing associations. Some of the supporters of the Administration's position blame Iowa's troubles largely on Iowa's banks. Iowa normally feeds about four fifths of her corn to hogs. Last year the corn crop was small, and Iowa farmers sold many hogs, presumably under bankers' advice. This year the corn crop is large. That of itself tends to lower the price. The quality of the crop is poor, which tends to lower the price further. And since there are fewer hogs, more than the usual...
Farm Attitude. The farmers answer in effect that these considerations are not fundamental. Because of our protective tariff, all we buy is high priced. Because we have a crop surplus, the prices of what we sell are determined by foreign prices. We buy expensively and sell cheaply...
...Potatoes, with a 7% cut in acreage, a 24% smaller production, but a gross crop value about 2½times that of 1924, give an inkling of what ultimate curtailment on the farms might mean...
...Theory of Price Fixing. About 15% of farm produce is sold abroad. This is the surplus of production over domestic consumption in various commodities. To sell the entire crop, prices have to go down to the foreign level, and this level of late has frequently been below the cost of production. Hence the farmers have suffered. As long as foreign prices remain below our cost of production, the only way farming can be made profitable is to sell no farm produce abroad. This means curtailed production for the time being. The unfortunate fact is that apparently the only...
...originally dashed off in all seriousness by Harold MacGrath, who never wrote a funny thing in his life. Director Reisner has added certain obvious touches of humor, and Syd Chaplin's latest crop of gags has complete the remodelling. Why they over bothered about MacGrath's story in the first place one can scarcely say. It would have been much better to start clean; so to speak...