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...some agricultural products (e.g., meat, milk, butter) fell below the 1916 levels of czarist days. Last September Nikita Khrushchev admitted the shortcomings of the Stalin program and announced a program of incentives to persuade the peasants to grow more. The Kremlin said consolingly that there was enough bread grain, but Khrushchev complained of severe shortages of livestock, vegetables (particularly potatoes), coarse grain and other fodder...
...Dancer whickers. "When he's talkin' like that, he wants his food," says Murray. Two quarts of oats go into the cerise and white feed bucket. The Dancer is a "good doer," i.e., a copious eater?about ten quarts of grain and extras a day. As the horse eats, Murray begins to whistle. "This is how I make him make water," he explains...
...years grain, cotton and other commodity men have had a neat device to hedge themselves against violent ups and downs in prices. It is the futures market, in which they can buy and sell commodities for delivery months in advance. Last week dealers in two other products subject to roller-coaster price swings were busy setting up futures markets of their own. In Florida citrus men laid plans for a futures market in booming citrus concentrates, whose prices fluctuate as much as 60% in a season. In Chicago a futures market in scrap iron and steel will open late this...
Minneapolis' Cargill, Inc., the biggest U.S. grain company, has been in plenty of trouble for its shenanigans on the commodity exchanges. In 1938 it was cited by the Commodity Exchange Authority for cornering the market in corn futures; three of its officers and a subsidiary company were expelled from the Chicago Board of Trade. In December 1952 the company was indicted for converting to its own and its customers' use 80,000 bushels of corn stored for the Commodity Credit Corp. (The case is still to be tried.) Last week Cargill was in trouble again with...
...futures, i.e., sell oats for future delivery in the expectation that prices would drop. At one time, said CEA, Cargill was short as much as 31.5 million bushels (24% of the 1951 crop), though regulations permit maximum contracts of only 3,000,000 bushels. At the same time, Cargill Grain Col, Ltd., a wholly owned Canadian subsidiary, was buying oats futures on the Winnipeg Grain Exchange and contracting to sell the oats to the parent company in the U.S. Cargill, charged CEA, falsified its books by listing these contracts as cash purchases in order to balance them off against...