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...Crop Killed. Why have prices gone up so much? The cost of green coffee beans began immediately rising after the devastating frost of July 1975 that killed or harmed more than half the coffee trees in Brazil, which provides about a third of the world's supply. Although the 1975 crop had already been harvested, large parts of the potential crop for this year and last were severely damaged. Brazil's production plunged from 22.2 million bags of coffee in the 1975-76 crop year to 6.4 million bags last year, a 70% drop, while world demand remained...
...emphasis on exports, but he is also expected to bring the Government back into U.S. agriculture in a big way. One objective: to protect smaller operations among the U.S.'s 2.8 million farms (down from 5.4 million in 1950). This intervention will take the form of higher crop-support prices and increased crop loans coupled with creation of a national grain-reserve system to cushion farmers against price fluctuations...
There remain nagging problems at home. Despite what appears to be a record grain crop in 1976 (about 223 million metric tons), Brezhnev was forced to announce this fall that he intends to plow $228 billion more into the farm sector in the next five years, acknowledging that this would crimp other sectors of the economy. He attacked shortcomings in efficiency and quality, and the "puny, partial improvements" in production of consumer goods, but offered little hope for improvement...
...executive director of the Gambling Commission. "There is in the breast of every person," he observes, "a desire to risk. It may be a desire to run for political office, or a desire by a farmer to plant wheat and see if the elements allow him to reap a crop, or a desire to buy stock or commodity futures. Or maybe it comes from a person who decides he has some disposable income and he's going to risk that money because he has a feeling he'll come away with more money, which is called gambling. It makes little...
...crop of ten Syracuse lettermen include senior Jim "Bug" Williams. The Bug flitted for over 15 points a game last season. Notre Dame transfer Bill Drew and 6ft.8in. Louis Orr along with high school all-state hoopsters Hal Cohen and Cliff Warwell are also expected to spearhead the Orangemen's attack...