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...they planted a tenth of an acre - their front yard - last fall. They even tried to mill the wheat themselves but had problems. So they took their 100-lb. crop to a commercial miller, and Mrs. Hollon is still baking sourdough bread and making whole-wheat pancakes with the flour. Jack Hollon, a math teacher, estimates that the wheat crop and their vegetable garden have saved the family only about $50 so far. But the Hollons and their two young children are having fun with small-time farming...
...supplies increased. But canned fruits and vegetables rose slightly, and are expected to jump in the months ahead, in part because of the Teamsters' strike against West Coast canners. Wheat farmers are holding on to much of their harvests in hope of even higher prices later, and flour and bread snowed no decline, as they usually do in summer...
...consumers will be asked to pay as much as 900 to $1 per dozen for eggs, 800 per lb. for broiler chickens and $2 per lb. for pork chops and bacon. Lettuce, tomatoes, fresh fruit and other perishables will rise immediately. Also likely to leap are prices for cereals, flour and other wheat and corn products, oils, many canned goods and frozen foods. When the freeze ends in August, prices of many other items will...
...broiler chickens is running 1.5% behind last year's pace. Says Don Paarlberg, chief economist of the Agriculture Department: "There will be fewer eggs, smaller supplies of fresh fruits and vegetables. Milk production will probably fall off, and there will certainly be fewer canned goods, less margarine and flour...
...gone forever. According to the General Accounting Office, the $1 billion sale of U.S. grain to the Soviet Union last fall was by far the biggest cause in lifting the price of American wheat by 100%, to $3 a bushel, and led to increases in the cost of flour and bread. On top of that, the GAO reports, the Agriculture Department made things worse by paying $300 million in subsidies to keep the selling price to the Russians unrealistically...