Word: croppings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trucks to ship them east, a loss that is calculated at $15 million to $25 million. In Florida some farmers face ruin unless 2,000 truckers can be found to ship $50 million in produce to Northern markets. An estimated 45% of the state's $30 million watermelon crop has been spoiled. Produce brokers are offering up to 35% above normal pay to anyone willing to haul produce, and about 90% of the Southern harvest is being moved. Says Jack Gilchrist of the Georgia department of agriculture: "We were right on the edge of catastrophe when things changed...
Nicaragua's agriculture, which employs a majority of the population, has been all but ruined. June is normally the month in which farmers plant cotton, the country's leading farm export, and spray the coffee crop, which ranks No. 2. This year farmers are afraid to go to their fields...
...Lombard farm stead at the end of the last century, and it consists of anecdotes about four families who serve the same omniscient landlord. There are, quite intentionally, no theatrics. A couple gradually fall in love and get married. An old man raises a tomato crop. A father illicitly cuts down one of the landlord's trees to make wooden clogs for his son to wear to school. Meanwhile, the seasons change, the sun rises and sets- all in the ripest of MGM colors...
...slowdown, in Evans' view, will cause inflation to drop from its present 13% rate to about 8% by 1979's end. Chances of a leveling off of retail food prices are particularly bright because of the huge grain stockpiles and the possibility of another bin-busting crop this fall...
...piece of good news on inflation. May's wholesale prices rose a modest .4%, vs. .9% in April, the smallest increase in nine months. The main reason: a drop in food prices, including beef, because of a decline in consumption. But food prices may resume their rise because crop-killing rains in the Midwest could tighten supplies of corn and wheat, and OPEC's continuing oil price rises will further fire up inflation...