Word: feed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Near Mount Vernon, Iowa, Gordon Neal discovered that the frost had penetrated an astonishing 6 ft. into the soil, freezing his water line for the first time since it was installed at the turn of the century. His silage pile was unusable, frozen rock-solid; he was forced to feed his cattle scarce hay. Following an extended drought, the freeze endangered the winter wheat crop throughout the Midwest...
...Dust Bowl of the '30s. Soil erosion in the coming windy months is also a threat throughout the farm belt. Grain farmers want more snow, not less, to blanket and insulate the ground -and provide moisture in the spring. Livestock herds are being sold off as feed costs rise. Things are so bad that Roald Lund, a North Dakota agriculture expert, suggested that farmers should simply take a holiday...
...assets of $300 million in rubber plantations and palm-oil industries on the Malay peninsula, yet it keeps its headquarters in Singapore and is registered in London. For years it had a reputation for mistreating and underpaying its workers, who bitterly dubbed the firm "Swine Bobby" (slang for pig feed) or "Slime Darby...
Just 43 seconds later, Horton notched his third feed, taking a long pass from defenseman Jim Trainor and setting up Dea right in front of Milner...
...officials quarantined more than 500 farms and ordered the destruction of thousands of cows, swine, sheep and chickens (TIME, May 10). These animals -and such farm products as cheese and eggs-had been contaminated by a fire retardant containing polybrominated biphenyls, or PBBs, that had accidentally been mixed with feed. But after examining farm families exposed to PBBs, the Michigan Department of Health announced that it had found no evidence that the chemicals had caused ill effects in humans. That reassuring conclusion was apparently premature. A medical study released last week indicates that PBBs caused some illness in as many...