Word: feed
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Supply management got a critical test last year in Freeman's new program for corn, barley and other "feed grains" (so called because they are mainly grown for livestock feed). Freeman raised feed grain support prices. But in order to qualify for crop loans, farmers had to cut their feed grain acreage by at least 20%. Farmers who did so received "diversion payments" equal to 50% of the value of the crops they would normally have grown on the diverted acres. A similar feed grain program, with lower diversion payments, is in operation again this year...
...days. Education is free, and Egypt's universities are crammed with 126,000 students, including 20,000 from other Arab lands. Improved hygiene and free clinics have only increased the population pressure: the new arable land to be provided by the Aswan Dam will be barely enough to feed the estimated 55 million population in 20 years. In short, at tremendous cost, Egypt will not have gone forward but merely stood still. Faced with this challenge, Nasser has begun a nationwide birth control campaign. Oral contraceptives are being sold below cost (a month's supply...
...head of Japan's Fisheries Agency Research Department, he went to a fisheries conference in Washington. There he heard about brine-shrimp eggs, on which American fanciers feed finicky tropical fish. When he fed the eggs to infant prawns back in Japan, he brought them safely through infancy into reasonably hardy youth...
...underwater graveyard off the Malay coast is a litter of bones, picked clean by the sharks that come there to feed. The natives take advantage of the fact by catching the sharks and selling their fins to rich Chinese, who prize fins as aphrodisiacs. But the shark fishermen pay a price for their enterprise: scrabbling over the beach to tend the drying fins, each shows the stump of a leg, a maimed hand, the nub of an elbow...
Thus far the University has taken no measures to ease the financial difficulties of the fraternities, despite the fact that it depends on them to feed and house one-quarter of its undergraduate population. Similarly, it has made no effort to encourage an end to their racial discrimination although such a move could easily be justified (as it has at other schools) on the basis of the control it exercises over all matters of student housing and welfare...