Word: harvested
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...will not be served one day out of seven. Moscow insists that the campaign will "improve the food pattern" of Soviet citizens. In fact, the Kremlin has been forced to scale down meat consumption because of a growing shortage-the direct result of last year's disastrous grain harvest...
That is no small issue. For years the Forest Service has sold private companies the right to cut timber in national forests. Even last year, when demand was dampened by a slump in home building (housing starts were 43% below 1973), the harvest from 155 national forests still topped 9 billion board feet, or 27% of the industry totals. Most of it was softwood for paper products and the building industry. But now this arrangement has been completely upset by environmentalist suits...
Grave Doubts. Every modern timber company clear-cuts where possible. The practice confines the harvest to one area and makes reseeding easier; thus clear-cutting can cost a lumber company about 50% less than cutting only selected trees. The industry thus was shocked when a higher court last August upheld the Monongahela decision. Then in December a federal judge in Anchorage cited the same decision and voided Ketchikan Pulp Co.'s 50-year contract to take 8.2 billion board feet of timber out of Alaska's Tongass National Forest. The ruling cast grave doubts on the legality...
...late to save the drought-stricken winter wheat crop, whose scraggly remains have been plowed under. Residents of heavily evacuated Minot, N. Dak., breathed easier as their earthen dams continued to hold against the crested Souris River, but 400,000 acres were flooded, dampening the area's harvest hopes for another season. At week's end most of America shifted to Daylight Saving Time, the better to enjoy, or rue, whatever nature has in store...
Despite the impending harvest failures, wheat prices so far have moved upward only slightly. A big crop in other parts of the U.S. could offset the expected losses. Nonetheless, many individual farmers stand to be wiped out by this year's losses. Says Minnesota Agricultural Expert John Wefald: "Some farmers are going to kiss rural America goodbye and good night...