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...ease a nationwide milk glut, the U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to start paying dairy farmers to sell their herds for export or slaughter and get out of the business. The USDA incentive: up to $22.50 in lieu of each 100 lbs. of milk that the farmer normally would have produced over one year. But to participate in the program, dairymen must brand every cow with a 3-in. X on the right jaw. Reason: without such markings, cows that were supposedly slaughtered or exported could be surreptitiously sold to other U.S. farmers ; and keep on producing milk...
...Farmers have a lot to gain from the oil-price slump. Agriculture absorbs 3% of all energy consumed in the U.S. each year--for diesel- and gasoline-powered machinery, for petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides, and for pumps used to lift and distribute irrigation water. With spring planting on the way, the timing of the oil-price collapse is, from the farmer's point of view, well- nigh perfect. Diesel-fuel prices have dropped so far this year by anywhere from 23 cents to 30 cents per gal., to as low as 50 cents. Costs are expected to come down...
Earle Gavett, director of the Department of Agriculture's Energy Office, estimates that farmers will save $1.1 billion on gasoline and diesel fuel this year. The amount that individual farms will save, says Mike Pieschel, president of the Farmers & Merchants State Bank in Springfield, Minn., "is not by itself going to prevent any farmer from going under. But it sure as hell is going to have an impact" in reducing the cost squeeze for some growers. Salesmen of tractors and combines are less sanguine. Says Cletus Chappell, co-owner of C&W Equipment Co., of Jerseyville, Ill.: "The savings will...
...Nebraska farmer Lucille Bruns said that for the farmer, the family farm is "not just his home--it's his whole livelihood...
...dressed all in black. Her friend, a prim-looking blonde in an '82 Harvard athletic department sweatshirt, told Chan she wasn't applying, but then relented. "As long as I'm here..." She said, picking up a form. Out of the blue, Chan asked if any of us were farmer's daughters...