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...State Fair in Des Moines, Ford declared that a "sound, fully productive agriculture is a key element in this nation's quest for peace. Our sale of grain and other foodstuffs to the rest of the world is one of the brightest areas in our economy, a green harvest we all understand." Without these sales, he maintained, the U.S. would lose $12 billion in earnings from international trade...
...inspire an extra effort down on the Kochenevsky state farm, the Communist Party has created a new title, "Hero of Threshing," which will be awarded for outstanding performance. Riding atop their huge Niva combines, Soviet farmers last week were rushing to harvest the grain crop, and from the Ukraine to Siberia, extra trucks were being pressed into service to speed the wheat, corn, rye and barley to storage areas before fall rains cause spoilage. Despite the frantic efforts, the Soviet harvest is expected to fall at least 25 to 30 million tons short of this year's goal...
...planners fouled up again this year. Under intense pressure from Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev to raise more grain for livestock, they set the total grain harvest goal at an overly optimistic level that would have nearly equaled the record 222 million tons achieved in 1973. Even if the present crop reaches only 180 million tons, it still would be the fourth largest Soviet harvest in history. But having allocated so much acreage for grain to be fed to cattle and poultry, Soviet planners now find that they did not have enough left over to comfortably feed the people...
Aside from such bureaucratic bungling, the 1975 harvest has fallen victim to the two enduring villains of Soviet agriculture. They...
...Soviet harvest. With its customary secrecy, the Soviet Union refuses to supply accurate information about future grain needs. Last month, however, a U.S. Department of Agriculture team was allowed to examine virtually all major Soviet agricultural areas. The findings: because of sparse snowfalls that ruined much of the winter wheat and a drought that decimated the summer plantings, the Soviet grain harvest will fall roughly 25 to 30 million tons below the 215 million-ton goal. The CIA, using different sources, reportedly puts the shortfall at a stunning 50 million tons -far more grain than the Soviet Union can hope...