Word: dak
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...grain sales volume drops substantially because of the embargo, elevator operators will be hurt along with the farmers. Richard Goldberg, who owns an elevator and feed firm in Fargo, N. Dak., figures his profits will drop 50% this year. Said he: "It took us years to get a foot in the door of Soviet grain sales. U.S. agriculture is getting kicked in the shins be cause it was doing a good...
Grain farms in Cass County, N. Dak., one of the largest counties in the state, average 1,000 acres, and good wheatland costs $1,500 an acre. Thus the typical Cass County farmer is running a business worth $1.5 million just for property. Then comes equipment. A tractor that sold for $16,000 in 1974 now costs at least twice as much, and farmers already talk glumly about the advent of $100,000 combines...
Despite the mechanization and scientific revolutions, the modern giants of the earth still fear the whims and challenges of nature. Last week, while farmers outside Fargo, N. Dak., fed their livestock and waited to plant their spring wheat, temperatures fell to 18° below zero, and the steady icy winds were a bone-numbing 15 m.p.h. Cracked U.S. Congressman Mark Andrews, who is a North Dakota farmer: "Up here we say that 40 below zero keeps the riffraff...