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...before consumption, allowing short-lived radioactive materials to decay. Contaminated milk could also be diluted with uncontaminated milk, bringing radioactivity below the danger point. People could be protected from radioactive iodine by taking potassium iodine in their diet to block out or neutralize radioactivity. Farmers could use stored feed grain for their cattle during periods of high radioactivity. As for the vital water supply, most potable U.S. water sits in huge reservoirs for years before it is consumed, giving plenty of time for short-lived radioisotopes to die; the addition of chemicals in treatment plants would further cut radioactivity. Says...
...Government offered the farmer to take part in the program. Farmers could sell their corn to the Government at the support price of $1.20 a bushel-about 20? above the average market price. In addition, the Government punished farmers who did not come into the program by dumping grain on the market to hold down the competitive price. Finally, the Government allowed farmers in the program to use land withdrawn from feed grains to raise other crops...
...over by these obvious advantages, nearly half of the nation's feed-grain farmers signed up for the program, agreed to cut 23.1% of their corn acreage and 31.1% of their sorghum fields. As late...
July, Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman was jubilantly predicting that the program would slash feed-grain production by 800 million bushels, reduce surplus stocks by "several hundred million bushels.'' Freeman admitted that the program would cost about $500 million-but called it a bargain, since the reduced stockpile would ultimately save the taxpayer over $500 million in carrying costs...
...crops: days of warm sun broken just often enough by rain. As a result, corn and sorghum production was off only 490 million bushels. From present signs, the $1.8 billion stockpile of surplus corn will be reduced only slightly. To make matters worse, many farmers who cut feed-grain production made a killing by using their fields to raise soybeans, which the Administration was buying at the handsome support price of $2.30 a bushel. Not only did the rush to soybeans produce a record crop, but it gave the U.S. the beginnings of another stockpile of surplus food to worry...