Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...land that once grew corn for peasants' diets is now used for strawberries and flowers for the U.S. while the people there starve. In Senegal, California-based Bud Antle grows vegetables for the European market; in 1974, when there was a glut in Europe, the company destroyed an entire crop of green beans, because the Senegalese peasants are not familiar with the vegetable and don't eat it--and because they could not afford Bud Antle's prices. Despite huge increases in the per capita production of beef in Central America in recent years, per capita consumption of meat...
...exports some 35% of its grain. Now, however, grain and soybean shipments abroad (an anticipated 89 million metric tons in 1977) are expected to drop by 10% to 15% next year. Says Don Howe, president of the National Association of Wheat Growers: "Even if there was a total crop failure in America, we could still feed the entire country and maintain our commitments abroad for at least a year...
...That the crop-support loan rate be raised from $1.75 a bu. to $2 for corn. The loan rate is a Government-set floor price for grains, used by farmers when they borrow money with their crops as collateral. The proposals do not change the loan rate for wheat (currently $2.25 a bu.). Instead, the Administration increased the "target price" from $2.47 to $3. When market prices fall below the target, Washington will pay out the difference between the loan rate and the target figure-that is 75? per bu. Total cost of the program: $4.4 billion...
...acreage. Carter demurred after his economic advisers warned of possible inflationary effects if worldwide harvests took a bad turn in the future. Bergland also preferred higher support levels, but agricultural relief has a lower priority for Carter than balancing his budget by 1981; no massive amounts of money for crop support were about to become available...
...important change is that the entire class is housed in the Yard. In the interest of more normalized relations between the sexes, the Class of '81 boasts the best male-female ratio in the history of the University: 1.87-to-1. Finally, 80 per cent of this year's crop of future leaders have already declared themselves either pre-law or pre-med, according to the Freshman Dean's Office, a statistic that boggles the minds of those who believe in free will...