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...farmers, such talk is not idle chitchat, especially these days. In a parched field west of Twain's home town of Hannibal, a Missouri farmer was, of course, talking about the weather. The seven-week-long drought, after all, has desiccated as much as half the crops in the Midwest and South. "My corn was ruined by July 20," says Paul Wilson of Shelbyville. "There were too many days over 100° while the corn was trying to pollinate." Wilson's corn crop, mostly stunted if not destroyed, will probably be 20% of last fall...
Using slogans that often crop up in his speeches, he concluded: "Turn on Reagan. Turn to each other. Our day has come. March on! Don't let them break your spirit. We will rise, never to fall again! From slave ship to championship! From the outhouse to the statehouse to the courthouse to the White House! We will march on! March on! March on! Our time has come!" The crowd cheered enthusiastically, breaking into the chant that follows Jackson at black and integrated gatherings almost everywhere these days: "Run, Jesse, run! Run, Jesse, run!" Jackson stepped back...
...shards over the streets below. What was hell in Texas held out some heavenly hopes for parts of the parched heartland, where the corn is withering on the stalks. But Alicia's leftover showers as it moved north were probably too late to save much of the devastated crop in what threatens to be the smallest corn harvest in a decade...
Critics of the program charge that the airborne spraying is not an effective way to wipe out the estimated $10 billion U.S. marijuana crop. Because it is grown surreptitiously, most pot "fields" in the U.S. are actually small plots that are most efficiently cleared by simple uprooting or by ground spraying. For the DEA's first raid, the point seemed true enough. The take from seven small Georgia patches totaling less than an acre was about 60 plants, though the Feds managed to destroy larger amounts in Kentucky...
Some economists are already predicting that this year's crop may be even smaller than the 4.7 billion bu. harvested 1974. Nevertheless, many farmers stand to gain from the shortfall. Corn now sells for some $3.50 per bu., up more than $1 from last year. In part because of such prices, the Government currently forecasts that overall U.S. farm income could reach some $27 billion this year, compared with $22.1 billion...