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...sold as high as $9 per bu., almost five times as much as a year earlier. The Department of Agriculture estimates that farmers' overall net income this year will total $25 billion, up more than $5 billion from 1972, which was a year of record prosperity. Exclaims Junaida Dibbet of Sioux Center, Iowa: "I'll tell you how good a year this is! We've been farming for 30 years, and we finally remodeled our house." Adds her husband Richard: "Got me a tractor too, with air conditioning and a radio...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: The Jubilant Farmers | 11/5/1973 | See Source »

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