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...this 1932 classic, Black Elk, an Oglala Sioux medicine man who witnessed the massacre at Wounded Knee Creek, S. Dak., collaborated with white Author John G. Neihardt...
...depressed, postembargo U.S. markets. American prices are now about 12% below their January levels. These ploys are driving up the cost of grain for the Soviets, but they are not stopping the flow of food. Says Richard Goldberg, owner of a grain and feed elevator in Fargo, N. Dak.: "All you can say about the grain embargo is that it is forcing the Soviets to pay one hell of a price...
Ervin J. Halvorson Sioux Falls, S. Dak...
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...