Word: doa
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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These huge surpluses, along with slumping sales, left farm prices in October a sharp 5.1% below their level a month earlier, the seventh drop in the past 15 months. The DOA, which regularly reports on the buying power of the farmers' prices, now says that it is the lowest since March 1933, during the very worst of the Depression. Rather than sell at such low rates, farmers are putting up their grain in the hope that they will be paid more for it later. That strategy seems doomed, however, because experts now predict that prices will remain...
Ironically, one key purveyor of the bad news to the Soviets has been the U.S. Department of Agriculture. So accurate have its forecasts of Soviet yields proved in the past that the distribution of DOA news bulletins in Washington this summer regularly attracted Soviet journalists. According to U.S. specialists who have analyzed satellite photos of Soviet farm land and who have also visited rural areas, the 1981 grain yield will amount to less than 185 million metric tons-21.6% below the target of 236 million in the current Soviet five-year plan. Grain production will be up imperceptibly from...
...deficit. Clearly, Washington's tactic of using food as a weapon to make Moscow behave in international relations has misfired. Indeed, the U.S. is now scrambling for a share of the Soviets' grain business. Says Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economics J. Dawson Ahalt of the DOA: "It's an interesting turnaround...
...almonds. California need only look across the Pacific for an example of the fly's destructive power. Hawaii has been infested since 1910. The only fruit it exports in large quantities is the thick-skinned pineapple, which is immune to the bug. Says Dr. Leroy Williamson, a DOA scientist in Honolulu: "Prior to the fruit flies, we had an abundance of fruit. Now we compete with these insects for our food...