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...such crimes as murder, rape and robbery. Surely a story on crimes like satanic disembowelment of animals, assault and dead-body dumping should not include the cultivation of a plant that is consumed by 25.5 million Americans and that one week earlier you noted was the fourth largest cash crop in America. The only crime committed by the marijuana growers is the profit accrued and the taxes not paid...
...wheat-Day-Glo yellow and brown-fireflies and a sweet country smell." They also have a harvest of problems. The wheat contracted a blight called wheat smut, plus mildew from the early summer rains. John Ameroso, a Cornell University agronomist who is Denes' horticultural adviser, says the crop is "distressed" and must be harvested early...
...deal of more than 8 million tons. Farmers believe that the U.S. could easily sell Moscow as much as 23 million tons over the next year. The U.S.S.R. has just suffered its fourth bad harvest in a row; the U.S. Agriculture Department estimates that this year's Soviet crop will be a disappointing 170 million metric tons, 68 million tons below the goal. The department also predicts that the Soviets will be forced to import 46 million tons this year, at a cost of $6 billion...
Even if he had done so, the immediate effect on grain prices would have been negligible unless the Soviets had signed on for astronomical amounts of grain. The farmers' central problem is that bumper crops and record surpluses have put grain prices at dismal lows. In Kansas, where farmers have just harvested a record wheat crop of 440 million bu., grain is selling at a meager $3.65 per bu., down from $4.05 a year ago and from over $5 in 1973. In Oklahoma, where wheat is selling at $3.20 per bu., farmers invest nearly $6 to harvest each bushel...
...farmers are hurting equally. Grain farmers are in the worst shape: corn producers are even worse off than wheat growers because there is less demand abroad for their crop. Those who raise hogs and cattle are doing relatively better, thanks to climbing meat prices and, ironically for grain growers, the low cost of feed. Dairymen, who make up only 13% of all farmers, are faring best of all, since Washington buys up nearly all of their surplus products; last year the Federal Government paid out more than $2 billion in dairy price supports...