Word: farmerly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...spot in our fight against inflation is in the area of meat," said the President. He vowed that the price ceiling will be maintained "as long as is necessary to do the job." Housewives immediately questioned whether the ceiling would work; they urged a rollback of prices as well. Farmers thought that they were being victimized. Iowa Farmer Donald Gerhardt echoed the common sentiment: "The farmer is being singled out to fight inflation and take the whole loss...
...this kind of world, the U.S. farmer could do what pleases him most: produce and produce and produce without worrying as much as before about price supports or acreage controls. A sensible policy aimed at increasing production, while providing help for those who have to leave the land, would benefit the whole nation. Farmers would prosper as never before, and consumers would not have to demonstrate, picket and boycott in protest against the high cost of eating...
Normally, there would be ample opportunity for all the people involved in the long food-production and marketing process to reap a reasonable profit. In the normal chain of events for beef, for example, the farmer sells his calf to a feedlot operator, who is one of the middlemen. He in turn fattens the animal and often sells it to a meatpacker for a few cents less per pound than he bought it. The feedlot operator hopes to profit by adding considerable weight to the animal in a relatively short time, but his problem lately has been that feed costs...
...farmer, on the other hand, has been enjoying considerable prosperity-helped in large part by Government policy, only recently revised, of pumping up subsidies and holding down production in order to buttress prices. Last year the nation's 9.5 million farm population had a record total net income of $19.2 billion, a 19% jump over the year before. Agriculture Department experts report that it will be even higher this year. In 1972, the average cost of food per household rose $60, to $1,311. Of the increase, the farmer received $42, while the remaining $18 was divided up among...
...Switzerland, he wrote this week's Art story on archaeological thievery. Hughes brought to the story a firsthand knowledge gained while he was living in Port' Ercole, Italy, in 1964 and 1965. It was an area settled by the ancient Etruscans, and was honeycombed with tombs. "Every farmer you met had an ancient pot or two in his house," Hughes recalls, "except the ones who were off in Tuscania making fakes. Tomb-robbing was the local cottage industry." Hughes made his contribution to the local economy. Buying Etruscan pots from farmers and amateur dealers at top prices...