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Fruit and vegetable growers from the Carolinas to Florida experienced less good fortune. Georgia apple farmers, worried about low temperatures of 22° in the northern mountains where about half the state's $4 million apple crop is grown, sprayed their orchards with water to form protective ice around the buds. Iowa State University Veterinarian John Herrick, noting that testicular frostbite can interfere with sperm production, urged ranchers to check their bulls for sterility. But for some the weather proved a financial boon. Ski-resort operators in New Jersey and New Hampshire, with a foot of new snow, extended...
Nearly 200 U.S. companies are now trying to use the new technology of gene splicing to make products that may some day be able to do everything from boosting crop growth to treating cancer. Many were started with just a few million dollars in venture-capital funds and a handful of researchers. They are now finding that promised commercial developments are hard to achieve, and are running short of money. Says Industry Analyst David Paisley, a Merrill Lynch vice president: "What you are seeing now is a shakeout that will lead to the survival of the fittest...
...scarce and the returns slim. "Some land goes up for sale and doesn't even bring out a bidder, since nobody has much money," says the Illinois Farm Bureau's Dale Butz, brother of former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz. After a long, spectacular climb, the value of crop land is falling. Average Indiana farm land sold a year ago for $ 1,200 an acre. Last month it was fetching only $700. Predicts Robert Maurer, a banker in Fairbury, Ill. (pop. 3,400): "I'd say 5% of Midwest farmers may have trouble surviving this year...
...Denmark, but a recent outbreak of hoof-and-mouth disease there caused Japan to suspend $215 million worth of Danish meat imports. This could mean some $100 million in unexpected sales for American cattlemen. Says Ronald Knutson, an economist at Texas A&M: "If there is a major crop failure some place in the world, we'll look back on this as a good year." American farmers may be the "miracle workers of the Western world," as President Reagan proudly says, but now many are hoping that the fates will work a miracle for them. -by Ed Magnuson. Reported...
Even in this season's less than robust crop, there are some potential export candidates. Among the one-acters, The New Girl, by Vaughn McBride is a very winning entry. The setting is a room in the Flossie Patch Nursing Home in Burley, Idaho. Clarissa (Anne Pitoniak) is bedridden, and Flo (Susan Kingsley) tools in on a health" to wheelchair get out the reporting first that time she and she'll "faked do it again. "I'm a lifer," responds Clarissa, but not despairingly. The two women are feisty graveyard jesters and the word terminal...