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...government statistics, industrial production in the first seven months of this year was 7.3% lower than in the same period last year. To compound the problem, early indications that agricultural production would improve this year have been thrown off by a long dry spell. The potato and sugar-beet harvest may be 25% smaller than in 1981. This can only put further strains on weary Polish consumers, who already find it difficult to make ends meet. Though wages have risen 40% this year, prices have doubled...
...Manhattan wheatfield has created its own environment. Says Denes: "We have praying mantises, spiders that change color to resemble the wheat-Day-Glo yellow and brown-fireflies and a sweet country smell." They also have a harvest of problems. The wheat contracted a blight called wheat smut, plus mildew from the early summer rains. John Ameroso, a Cornell University agronomist who is Denes' horticultural adviser, says the crop is "distressed" and must be harvested early...
...tons of corn and wheat, but requires further consultation between Washington and Moscow for a deal of more than 8 million tons. Farmers believe that the U.S. could easily sell Moscow as much as 23 million tons over the next year. The U.S.S.R. has just suffered its fourth bad harvest in a row; the U.S. Agriculture Department estimates that this year's Soviet crop will be a disappointing 170 million metric tons, 68 million tons below the goal. The department also predicts that the Soviets will be forced to import 46 million tons this year, at a cost...
...done so, the immediate effect on grain prices would have been negligible unless the Soviets had signed on for astronomical amounts of grain. The farmers' central problem is that bumper crops and record surpluses have put grain prices at dismal lows. In Kansas, where farmers have just harvested a record wheat crop of 440 million bu., grain is selling at a meager $3.65 per bu., down from $4.05 a year ago and from over $5 in 1973. In Oklahoma, where wheat is selling at $3.20 per bu., farmers invest nearly $6 to harvest each bushel. These are the mathematics...
...November elections looming, five incumbent Republican Governors in the Midwest are stepping down this year, and Democratic leaders are looking to win the statehouses in Minnesota, Nebraska, Iowa and Illinois. They also expect to pick up at least several congressional seats in the region. That is one Midwest harvest that has the Republican Party especially worried...