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Benedict estimates that it costs $300 an acre to raise sugar beets. At an average yield of 15 tons an acre, and a depressed price this year of around $21 a ton, the typical beet grower will receive $315 an acre, producing a thin profit in view of the heavy investment required. But Benedict's mechanization and tight management enable him to grow 20 tons an acre, worth $420, enough to promise a worthwhile return...
California Wheat and Barley Grower Ken Lederer, 44, waxes lyrical about the spiritual rewards of farming: "When you see all your work out there on the ground, dependent on so many things you can't control, like the frost, the bugs and the rain, you begin to appreciate how small
Being out front with ideas is a Garst family tradition. David's father Roswell, who died last November at 79, is remembered internationally as the corn grower who played host to Nikita Khrushchev on his U.S. tour in 1959. But on the prairies Roswell is remembered as a developer, with Henry Wallace, of hybrid corn. David, a blunt-featured bear of a man who graduated from Stanford ('50), is promoting innovation on his own. Among the techniques that he and his family have pushed...
Completing the harvest is no easy task. Windfall loot has spawned violent crime. Crop thefts and armed robberies now loom as more ominous threats than police busts. "The paranoia gets so thick around here in October that you could cut it with a knife," says an Oregon grower...
...growers say that they cannot survive in a market that is about as quiet, orderly and predictable as a sailors' bar on Saturday night. Crop failures sent world prices soaring to 65¢¢ per Ib. in 1974, and overproduction has made them plunge to about 8¢. Late last year the Administration signed the International Sugar Agreement, which would use buffer stocks and export restraints to keep prices between 15¢ and 19¢ per Ib. But the ISA deal must be ratified by the Senate; and Church, who represents a big beet-grower constituency, has kept the agreement bottled...