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...OPEC prices since 1970; they cannot do without oil but cannot afford to buy it. Admits an official of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization: "The guy who was en lightened enough to follow our advice to buy machinery and fertilizer is in a bind, while the farmer who kept his water buffalo is in much better shape...
...farmer/investor to use as a tax write-off. The Osage orange hedges, planted a hundred years ago against the chilling wind, are being torn out, because machinery these days needs more room just to turn around. The wind sweeps down, carrying off the topsoil, buffeting the farmer who can, thanks to progress, plant 300 acres in two days all alone with $100,000 worth of machinery...
...life of Riley," says Ulmer, correcting her. No livestock, no need for extra help, the ticker tape running constantly at the Anchor co-operative grain elevator, bringing prices from the commodity exchange up in Chicago. But only one of the Beetzel's four children is a farmer...
...Plains states (where communities are separated by long distances), people must drive or suffer immobility. Of course, they can and must do more car pooling. That is difficult for many: the suburbanite who works the night shift, the construction laborer who moves from site to site, the marginal farmer who drives to a supplemental job in town. But food production would not be set back; to run their equipment, farmers long ago shifted largely from gasoline to diesel fuel, and they are almost certain to be exempted from any tax increases or tight rationing...
Twice upon a time there was a writer and illustrator named Uri Shulevitz. When he illustrated The Lost Kingdom of Karnica (Scribners; $8.95) he amplified Richard Kennedy's tale with a subtle palette. It creates a kingdom where everything is bounteous-until a farmer discovers a strange red stone...