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...efficient." But after a survey of farms in different regions of the country, he concluded that most economies of scale "are achieved by the one-man fully mechanized farm. While the most efficient farm size has increased in the last decade, due mainly to tractor improvements, this 1973 report found that most farmers need a much smaller acreage and capital investment than Pat Benedict. For instance, a vegetable grower in California produces at his maximum potential on a farm of 200 acres with less than one-fifth of Benedict's investment in machinery, and a corn farmer in Indiana...
Another study that Time chose not to cite found in 1970 that 22 per cent of the U.S. food supply is produced by corporate farmers and by contract. The American Agriculture Marketing Association predicts that by 1985 corporations will control 75 per cent of our food supply in one of these two ways. And even the USDA admitted in a 1973 report that only cash grain and forage crops, and range livestock will be controlled by independent family farmers in 1985. Pat Benedict, a wheat farmer, is the exception, not the rule...
...Federal Trade Commission put the blame elsewhere in 1972, when it found that monopoly power in 13 food industries had cost consumers $2.1 billion. And with just a little common sense, anyone could figure out that Proctor and Gamble didn't manufacture Pringles potato chips because hundreds of people wrote in demanding them, but because they have a shelf life of a year, and can be shipped over long distances and bring more money into P & G's coffers...
...Zulu] Chief [Gatsha] Butelezi is one of those who genuinely opposes withdrawal. But he's been ambiguous on this issue. There was a time when he pleaded for economic pressure--in the days when he was hoping to retain links with the liberation movements. However, he found that the liberation movements weren't acknowledging him, so now he's gone in with the present power structure in terms of sticking with things they'll tolerate. Further than that I wouldn't like to knock him. He's a courageous man who has criticized apartheid consistently...
Although University health officials have said that cheese can be a carrier of salmonella, students found a large plate of cheese and crackers on the menu at the Union, Leverett, and Lowell Houses. Weissbecker was unavailable for comment last night...