Word: farmbelt
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Dates: during 1987-1987
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...same can be said over a lot of tables in America's Farmbelt. After enduring five years of sluggish income, rising bank foreclosures and surging rates of divorce and suicide, the U.S. farmer seems to be struggling to his feet, with a big assist from Uncle Sam. Farm income has increased at least 12% in 1987, to a projected $42 billion. Meanwhile, the amount of debt that farmers owe has dropped an estimated 10%, to $158 billion. Even agricultural exports, which have been too low in recent years to help the U.S. trade deficit much, are improving. Spurred...
Parents, beware: the stores are filled with jabbering dolls, video villains, electronic spaceships and kiddie camcorders. But many of the latest playthings leave little to the imagination and nothing in the pocketbook. -- The Farmbelt is celebrating a good harvest and a modest recovery, but U. S. agriculture is still too reliant on federal aid. -- Ailing E. F. Hutton is listening -- to potential buyers...
...spectacle of wasted crops spread jitters across the rest of the Farmbelt, especially in northern states that depend on migrants from the Southwest. In the Fruit Ridge region of Michigan, growers are scrambling to find cherry pickers, but the real worry is about the peach crop in July and apple harvest in August through October. Other worker shortages could reach from the tobacco fields of the Carolinas to the poultry farms of Texas...
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