Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...northwestern section of wheat-growing North Dakota, Stan Erickson, 33, was busy from dawn to dusk, bringing in his crop: 10,000 bu. of durum wheat from 400 acres. The achievement left him and his father with a marketing dilemma. Half of last year's crop-8,000 bu.-is still in storage on the family farm. This year the Ericksons cut back their planting by 200 acres but were still forced to spend $3,000 for an additional, 6,000-bu. storage bin. Says the younger Erickson: "We had too good a year. Last year there...
America's prodigiously fertile farm lands will yield some 2.04 billion bu. of wheat this year, the third best crop in U.S. history and only 107 million bu. less than the 1976 record. Corn production is approaching 6.1 billion bu., second only to last year's alltime high of 6.2 billion bu. A third basic crop, soybeans, will yield 1.8 billion bu. v. a previous record of 1.5 billion bu. in 1973. Beyond what it can consume and export, the U.S. will have on hand 84 million metric tons of those products at year...
...coffee. What sent prices up in the first place was a freak frost in 1975 that damaged more than half of Brazil's coffee trees. Now, with the Southern Hemisphere's winter half gone and no hurtful frost so far, Brazil expects to have a much better crop this year-14 million to 16 million bags, double last year's harvest. Two other big coffee producers, Colombia and El Salvador, are fearful of a further decline in prices, and have been selling their large 1977 crops early...
...with the townspeople, who act the way good people do who are not accustomed to being juxtaposed with too many celebrities: a little jumpy and voluble. A woman asked privately, "Did Theodore Roosevelt draw in this many in 1902?" [Answer: No.] A young visitor from Long Island saw a crop duster circling the cotton fields near the new school where the meeting would take place, and thought it might be a Government plane looking for Communists...
Ever since Nikita Khrushchev introduced shoe banging to the United Nations, some Westerners have suspected that Moscow followed its own very different standards of diplomatic deportment. It may well have, but whatever the standards were, a new compendium has been issued for the use of the current crop of Soviet diplomats...