Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...compound the problem, aerial spraying used to be so effective that mosquito-control agencies permitted farmers to forgo installing drainage facilities to reduce the insect's breeding grounds. As a result, the Central Valley's heavily irrigated crop lands have become huge hatcheries for Aëdes nigromaculus. Now that insecticides are useless, farmers are being ordered to drain their fields-a costly process that may force many small operators out of business...
Last week's full moon was the harvest moon, round and rich as the nation's produce has been this year. Across the plains, wheat farmers threshed bumper crops. Potato growers from Maine to Idaho were unearthing what should be a record yield-about 314 million hundredweight for the year. The hops of Oregon's Willamette Valley are in the sacks. The agribusiness entrepreneurs of California's San Joaquin Valley have had another good year in cotton. The peaches of Comus, Md., have rarely been juicier. Helminthosporium maydis-the wind-borne spore of Southern corn blight...
...Record Crop. A major reason for the change is the aging of the postwar baby boom. As the babies reached school age in the '50s and early '60s, they created the teacher shortage by their sheer numbers. Now they have moved through college and produced a record crop of teachers. This year the new academic job seekers are being joined by refugees from the tight private job market...
...research on chemical disinfectants, he found that the crop sprays used by large Midwestern land owners caused cancer in chickens. It turns out that about half of the chickens we eat have cancer in their bodies, or maybe it's a third in Massachusetts. Cancerous chicken tissue is supposed to cause brain lesions in dogs and cats...
...Inducing substantial migration" means terror bombing, defoliation, napalm, destruction of villages, crop destruction, and assassination. It has nothing in common with movement to cities in classical capitalist development, generated by the development of market and productive forces (although that is violent enough). It has even less in common with a rational allocation of resources for the simultaneous development of city and country. "Urbanization" is used by Huntington as an index of modernization. In fact, it refers to little more than the number of people in cities, without regard for the economic viability of those cities or the conditions...