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...instance, a record-and-tape store so much as one finds an establishment whose sign proffers: SWEET CORN, LOCAL GROWN. WE MAKE KEYS. Gasoline stations offer beer, shoes, crickets, night crawlers and, in season, onions. The onion accounts for $9 million worth of the local economy each year. The harvest ended last month...
...Agriculture estimates that farmers planted only 60.1 million acres of one major crop, corn, down 27% from last year and the lowest level since 1878. Even with the acreage reductions, however, the nation's winter-wheat crop, planted last September and now in the midst of being harvested, is estimated at 1.94 billion bu., the third best crop ever and down only 8% from last year. Farmers in 13 states will bring in larger wheat crops than last year. The reason: record yields, a predicted average of 40.7 bu. of wheat per acre nationwide, up more than 10% from...
...prices have risen nearly 10? per lb. this year, mostly because of bad weather. Eventually, however, reduced supply should strengthen prices and put more money in fanners' pockets. "The confidence level is better," says Tractor Dealer Bob Kennon of Tifton, Ga. "People are more optimistic about the fall harvest than they've been in two years...
When farmers signed up for PIK last spring, they received vouchers redeemable at harvest time for grain from Government-controlled storage. The amount varied from 80% (in the case of corn) to 95% (in the case of wheat) of what they would normally produce on their idled plots. After redeeming the vouchers, the farmers are free to sell the gratis grain or use it as livestock feed. "PIK sure looked sweet to me," says Kyle Bauer, who idled 700 acres of his 1,700-acre farm in northeastern Kansas. "I can give my ground a rest and still...
...Harvest time is coming to the fertile Southwest, and with it one of its biggest cash crops will blossom in fields, along roadsides and in suburban backyard gardens: marijuana. Call the police? Sure, but don't forget the doctor. It turns out that marijuana is no friend to allergy sufferers. Dr. Geraldine Freeman, in a study published by the Western Journal of Medicine, finds that pot pollen may be as irritating to some respiratory systems as ragweed. In a seven-month survey of 129 patients' reactions to various substances, Freeman found that about 50% of those tested showed...