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Malard's mind, tuned to seasons and years, is already calculating 1989. He got one scraggly hay crop this spring and has some carry-over bales from last year for his 75 Herefords and Black Angus cattle. With careful planning, that can get him into next year. But then without new hay and grain his future looks bleak...
...another age, in a simpler society, a drought of these dimensions was mostly a farm calamity. What could make this drought more menacing than anything yet seen should the rains not come is the interwoven nature of the environment, economy and people. Crop failures, farm bankruptcies, high food costs, transportation disruption, municipal water shortages -- bad as all these are, they are familiar difficulties. Now there is the threat of other, more subtle damage. In California's Silicon Valley, a plan to cut pure reservoir supplies sent a shock through the semiconductor industry. Ionizing mineral-laden well water to the proper...
...trade balance is involved in the complex equation that deals with the drying of America. After dismal years of crop surpluses, falling prices and sagging overseas markets, the federal program to sell foodstocks abroad and take millions of acres out of production was at last paying off. Wheat surpluses had dwindled by 35% in the past two years, and exports were up 75%. So far, Clayton Yeutter, the U.S. trade representative, is resisting the cries to stop selling grain overseas and preserve it for American markets. But if grain sales abroad must be halted, the frustrated overseas customers...
...part of its war on drugs, the U.S. reached an agreement with Peru to test Spike's effectiveness on its cocaine crop. The State Department wants to supply Peru with the herbicide for an eradication project in the Upper Huallaga Valley, along the eastern Andes, where much of the world's coca is grown. Peru would get the assistance; Lilly would get the order; and the coca would get annihilated...
...weather report is not encouraging. Says National Weather Service Meteorologist Lyle Alexander: "We're not looking forward to a great deal of shower activity." The spring wheat crop in the northern Great Plains could be salvaged if rains come in the next week or two, but a large high-pressure ridge makes that unlikely. Crops are surviving now on moisture stored in the soil. "There's about two minutes left in the game," says County Agent Carl Wilbourn of Leflore County, Miss. "But there's still a chance...