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...Prairie" [NATION, Sept. 10] struck a chord in my Midwestern heart. His admonition should remind us that agriculture is of primary importance to this nation and all other types of commerce and production are secondary. The greatest deterrent to a nuclear holocaust is our sharing with the Soviets the grain that comes from this nation's breadbasket...
...temporary payment-in-kind (PIK) deal, which doled out accumulated Government grain and commodity stocks to farmers who agreed to keep some of their fields fallow, cost $9.7 billion in 1983. Last week the President recalled those and other Administration policies that helped farmers: lifting the embargo on grain exports to the Soviet Union, eliminating estate taxes for widowed spouses (important to land-rich farmers) and getting Japan to double its imports of American beef...
...sacred to I millions and one of the glories of Western narrative art. Heller is I most successful when he simply allows his source to do most of the I work, either by lifting large swatches of language from the King James translation or by going against the scriptural grain...
...current promotion of irradiation treatment is particularly troubling in light of contentions by some scientists that safer alternatives do exist. For example, diatomaceous earth used for years by some grain farmers is a non-toxic insecticide, with none of the side effects of irradiation...
...Idaho, swarms of them can be seen from miles away, and troubled farmers speak of "watching the grasshoppers coming over the mountains." The insects are imperiling $1.1 billion worth of alfalfa, grain, beans and potatoes in southern Idaho. In South Dakota, grasshoppers, army worms and corn borers have laid waste to thousands of acres of crops...