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...that people like the Russians understand is raw, naked power. I just hope the American farmer doesn't have to be the goat." Most Eureka farmers have not yet sold 75% of their 1979 crops. But Johnson was luckier than his neighbors: he contracted to sell his record 1979 harvest of corn and soybeans even before the seed was in the ground, when prices were fairly high. Just a few days after Carter's announcement, Johnson loaded part of his production, about 8,000 bu. of soybeans, aboard a truck bound for the Ralston Purina Co. plant in Bloomington...
...spring planting. He could switch more of his land to durum wheat ?all of which is sold to domestic manufacturers of spaghetti and macaroni?or to sunflowers and sugar beets. But sunflowers are in oversupply, and sugar-beet processors are working overtime to absorb the 1979 harvest. Said Sinner: "Probably there's going to be some crop switching. But I figure it's a big guessing game every spring anyway...
...lowans harvest refugee...
Outside the capital, the rice paddies and cornfields along Route 4 had a deceptively lush look; the rainy season had just ended. Provincial officials predict that the harvest from the crop that was planted in June will be 70% of normal; but independent estimates are that throughout the country, the so-called short season may yield only a fifth of what is normally reaped. In the entire province, there is only one doctor, a Vietnamese "adviser." Some 500 patients are crammed into the hospital in Kompong Speu, which has only 200 beds. The facility has no laboratory to analyze blood...
...place as one of nine non-voting alternate members of the Politburo was taken by a relatively young unknown, Mikhail Gorbachev, 48, who for the past year has been the Central Committee's secretary in charge of agriculture. Gorbachev, apparently, was not blamed for a disastrous 1979 grain harvest. Largely because of bad weather, Brezhnev announced, this year's crop amounted to only 179 million tons-47 million tons short of the target, and the worst harvest since 1975. The U.S.S.R. has already contracted to buy 25 million tons of American wheat and corn and will probably purchase...