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There are military aspects of the war in Indochina which never appear on the weekly casualty lists. The use of herbicides in Vietnam by the U.S. military is one of these. In the years through 1969, approximately six million acres of forests and cropland were sprayed in Vietnam from the air. That comprises about one sixth of the total surface area of the country, and area the size of Massachusetts...
...prime farm land to provide him with a decent balanced diet. But by far the best agricultural land tends to be near cities, where pioneers first settled. Thus when population rises, vast new subdivisions are built on precious loam. Then, to boost the productivity of the remaining rich cropland, farms are mechanized. By so doing, says Watt, society wrongly assumes that there will always be enough energy readily available to produce chemical fertilizers and run farm machines...
...longstanding feud between Arizona and California over use of the waters of the Colorado River. Continuing Mexican complaints have finally persuaded the U.S. to agree to dig a canal to divert salt-polluted waters from Arizona irrigation runoff before they can re-enter the Colorado and flow past Mexican cropland. But diplomacy has not yet managed to move the Jordanians and Israelis to settle their quarrel over who should divert how much water and where from the Jordan...
...years-the longest life of any omnibus farm bill in U.S. legislative history. Its provisions essentially are little changed from previous programs, with the exception of an additional 50?-a-bu. subsidy for wheat, raising the support price to $2.50 for wheat grown for domestic consumption, and a new cropland retirement plan under which the Agriculture Secretary may draw...
...past three years (for wheat, $1.38 a bushel; for corn, $1), and that the Government should be prohibited from selling its surplus stocks at less than 125% of the support price, allowing the market price to rise above the support level. The Bureau even faults the new cropland retirement plan, though that has long been one of the organization's pet schemes for whittling down surpluses. "It can't possibly work satisfactorily," Shuman believes...