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...grain itself is not toxic because endrin is sprayed only at the seedling stage, while only the tops of the mature plants are harvested. Birds, however, eat the seedlings...
...Soviet Union may be facing a long winter of food shortages. Estimates of the size of this year's harvest in the U.S.S.R. are falling almost as fast as the temperature on the Siberian tundra. Less than a month ago, American experts predicted 180 million metric tons of grain, which would be 5% less than last year's production and 24% lower than 1978's record harvest...
...nervous Soviet grain traders are saying that the yield may plunge to a calamitous 170 million tons, or 28% less than the 236 million-ton goal set forth in the current five-year plan. The chief reasons for the pessimism are drought in the Ukraine, the Volga Valley and elsewhere plus chronic agricultural mismanagement. Soviets quip that the first member of the Politburo to die will be blamed for the mess in agriculture, but it is no laughing matter. Says Marshall Goldman, the associate director of Harvard's Russian Research Center: "The Soviet Union finds itself with a disaster...
...Less grain also means less food for livestock. Soviet consumers can thus expect thinner milk and stringier beef this winter. The government has no chance of fulfilling its perennial promise to boost meat consumption, which last year was about 128 lbs. per person, one of the lowest levels in the industrialized world...
...prevent a repetition or escalation of the food protests that reportedly erupted last year at the Gorky and Togliatti auto works, the Soviet leaders are expected to import a record 40 million tons of grain. Some Western experts believe that Soviet ports will have trouble handling such heavy traffic. Much of the grain will come from the U.S., where a bounteous harvest has depressed crop prices and made farmers anxious to sell their surplus abroad. A delegation from the U.S. Agriculture Department travels to Moscov this week with an offer to sell the Soviets 10 million more tons of grain...