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People in rural areas were afraid that even though Carter will be the first farmer in the White House since Thomas Jefferson, a peanut grower may not understand corn-belt problems. Because of unseasonably dry and cold weather this winter, the Midwest may end up at harvest time with unusually low yields in such high-income crops as corn and soybeans...
...ranchers and farmers want Jimmy Carter's Administration to help in some areas, they emphatically want it to leave them alone in others. Outside Del Rey. Calif.. Harold Shidan, 57, a stocky raisin grower, faulted Carter for endorsing the state's unsuccessful attempt to settle the three-way labor battle between the growers, the Teamsters Union and Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers. The proposal that Carter supported would have permitted union organizers to campaign on growers' property and would have mandated secret elections for union representation. Shidan griped that he has had to pull...
After consultation with Alexis Lichine, famed oenophile (The New Encyclopedia of Wines & Spirits), grower (Cháteau Prieure-Lichine), and wine merchant, TIME Paris Bureau Chief Gregory Wierzynski cabled this vatside evaluation from the major regions...
...plays an important role for the state's 12.2 million people, who are spread over 171 million acres. Besides leading in cattle production, Texas outpaces all other states in lambs, goats, grain sorghum, cotton, watermelons, cabbage and spinach. It also vies with Louisiana as the biggest U.S. rice grower...
...Detroit market. Many farmers do not put up much of a fight since they can pull in $1,000 on a good Saturday. Some of the farm folk even admit to a fondness for those odd city shoppers in their Lacoste shirts and Gucci shoes. Says Michael Temple, a grower from Brewster, N.Y., who peddles his produce in Manhattan each week: "The people here are nicer than back home, where there are farm stands all over the place...