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This region is one of the hardest to gauge. Because of farm unrest over low crop and livestock prices at a time of rising costs, Nixon is vulnerable in states where farmers could make the difference. The Midwest likes Muskie's soothing style and Humphrey's farm and labor expertise. It distrusts the shrillness and controversy that surround Kennedy, and he would be least likely among Democrats to take full advantage of Nixon's weakness. Kennedy could probably carry Minnesota, Michigan and South Dakota?but they might...
...nation's farmers, who look increasingly to foreign markets to absorb U.S. abundance, are hard hit. A bumper soybean crop in Alabama spilled out of all available storage elevators and was kept temporarily on barges. While dock workers ignored a state court's back-to-work order, one group of farmers threatened to load the crop onto ships themselves. Barges carrying the Midwest's feed-grain harvest to port were backed up at a score of wharves along the Mississippi River and the sight of corn piled high on the ground has become common. Illinois farmers have...
...happen. There was no excuse for the Agriculture Department to encourage more planting. Farmers are still harvesting now, but in a couple months they're going to start settling up-paying for their gas and fertilizer and taxes. Then they're going to find out that the crop the Agriculture Department caused and the farmers produced isn't going to have any value...
...Libby wastes lying stagnant in the lagoons often smell like rotten meat. In the words of one irate citizen, the odor is reminiscent of "pig manure." Even so, the smells are seasonal, and (to most people) bearable. But last summer's wet weather produced an unusually large beet crop-and the worst smells ever. Fed up, 100 townspeople have now formed S.M.E.L.L.S. (Someone Must Eliminate Libby Lagoon Smells...
...acres of land in northeastern Oregon. Originally planned as a test site for rockets, the sagebrush-dotted wilderness now is scheduled to become a thriving agricultural and industrial community. Later this month Boeing will begin construction of a 42-in. irrigation pipeline. The company plans to plant a potato crop in March, and it has sublet part of the tract to Japanese chicken growers, who will use the land to grow alfalfa. To enrich the sandy soil. Boeing and a Portland group, Columbia Processors Cooperative, are experimenting with a fertilizer made from Portland's waste products. "Even...