Word: harvested
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...canned goods are showing up in the supermarkets (see box following page), but America's newly fat and happy farmers are jubilant. With the notable exception of cotton, which is expected to be 4% behind last year's crop, never before has there been so much to harvest. Midwest farms are producing such quantities of grain and golden soybeans that equipment dealers cannot get enough storage bins for them. Even though a month of above-normal rainfall slowed the start of the harvest in the grain belt, the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts record crops of 5.8 billion...
...long-overdue policy shift, will no longer pay farmers to hold down production. Butz warns farmers to expect shortages of fertilizers and of propane gas used to dry grains. But barring drought, blight or flood, the men and women on the land can look forward to an even fatter harvest and richer incomes next year...
Despite the record harvest, threats of food shortages keep popping up like hobgoblins at Halloween. New scarcities are now expected in such key items as canned goods and dairy products; even turkey will be in short supply for the holidays. More frustrating, because of snarls on overloaded U.S. railroads, the bumper yields will be tortuously slow in reaching markets, further tightening supplies and kicking up retail food prices, which have inflated 21.5% in the past year. Concedes Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers: "It's probable that we will see some larger food prices...
...Harvest Home, Tryon...
...film are as welcome as familiar friends. Everyone has moments of self-pity or absorbing anger, and Young is skillful at striking that self-obsessed chord in all of us. But his skill, or at least his elusiveness which passes for subtlety, started to crumble with his last album, Harvest. In Journey Through the Past, it breaks down altogether; Young wields images like a lumberjack swings an ax. Any self-respecting director would have kept such nonsense out of public theaters...