Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mississippi and Arkansas had the biggest cotton crop in a decade. Countless tons of grapes were on their way to wineries in California. The far West's army of "fruit tramps" picked apples in Washington's Wenatchee and Yakima Valleys. In Illinois, Iowa and Indiana, the greatest corn crop in history awaited picking. Tractor-drawn drills were seeding wheat in the fields of Kansas and Nebraska. Sweating cowhands and their sweating mounts were cutting herds in the Southwest...
Cheaper. It looked as if the cost of food-the biggest component of the cost of living-was finally heading down. In its mid-September index of crop and livestock prices, the Department of Agriculture reported a three-point drop to 290 (1909-14 average: 100), the second drop in two months. The Journal of Commerce's wholesale food index also dropped half a point...
...Indo-China level was Burma, in normal years the world's largest rice exporter. After Goshal's return from the Calcutta conference, a series of uprisings broke out which reached their peak just when Burmese peasants should have been out in the paddy fields gathering the new crop. Last week, as Burma's parties battled for power, and food prices in Rangoon soared, it was doubtful whether Burma this year could even feed herself...
Bumper Loans. As the last of the bumper U.S. wheat crop was being harvested, it overflowed elevators and warehouses. But much of it was not going to market, where it would have helped bring down prices. Reason: farmers were putting it under Government loan at $2 a bushel. They had already taken loans on 90 million bushels v. 20 million last year. The Department of Agriculture eventually expected to have 300 million bushels under loan...
Cotton Crutch. Cotton prices, which had been slipping at the prospect of the biggest crop (15,219,000 bales) since 1937, got a prop from the Department of Agriculture. The department agreed to make loans on cotton stored on farms (formerly it made them only on cotton stored in approved warehouses), thus made it possible for farmers to keep their cotton off the market and keep prices...