Word: grasses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since 1935, when Congress established the Service to improve the ineffective state college conservation programs, the colleges and the reactionary Farm Bureau Federation have striven to return conservation "to the grass-roots." Admittedly taking politics into account, Benson has complied: in spite of his vigorous denials, conservation seems destined to fall back into the arms of the lethargic College Extension Departments...
This does not mean a President should campaign against members of his own party. For, as President Roosevelt learned when he tried his purge of 1938, many members of Congress have such firm grass roots they cannot be eradicated. Eisenhower should aim toward the same goal more subtly: by returning to his middle idea he should make it clear he will withhold endorsement from Republicans who actively oppose the main items in his program. Such a statement may goad Congress into some needed action, and will certainly better fulfill the President's role as leader of a nation...
...They don't see why steaks from grass-fed beef cost 98? a Ib. when all the farmer gets for that meat is 14?." Their anger touched one of the most sensitive nerves in U.S. politics. In Washington a congressional committee responded by proposing price supports for cattle while the Department of Agriculture is already investigating the spread between the price of beef on the hoof and on the butcher's meathook...
...meat prices high because someone between the rancher and the retail counter is getting too much gravy? The answer is no, even though cattlemen are selling their grass-fed steers at a loss in today's markets. But middlemen are making no lush profits. The feeders, who buy steers to fatten up for market, are lucky to make a 10% profit-provided that they guess right on what the price will be when they sell. Meat packers' profits are smaller: last year they were six-tenths of a cent on each dollar of sales. The retailer, whose average...
...along the line there are big risks and small profits. For example, an 800-lb. grass-fed steer that costs the cattleman $160 to raise, and formerly sold at a nice profit, today usually sells for only $128. To get the cattleman's steer ready for market, and possibly make a $25 profit, a feeder must stuff it with corn for three to nine months. But to the packer who buys it weighing 1,100 Ibs. the steer represents only 660 Ibs. of salable meat. Once, such byproducts as the hide, tallow, blood, offal and stomach were very profitable...