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...farmers broke alltime records this fall for corn, wheat and soybeans, harvesting more than 13 billion bu. of the three crops combined. They grew another 1.94 billion bu. of oats, barley and grain sorghum. But elevators, silos and bins are already swelling with a 4.39 billion-bu. carryover from last year's bumper crop. Although new storage facilities are being built at a record rate, they will not be enough to hold this year's harvest. Empty barges and railroad hoppers, airplane hangars, even high school football fields and city streets are being pressed into service as makeshift...
Last week the Government disappointed farmers when it raised its estimate of the Soviet Union's grain harvest by 6%. Once the biggest customer for U.S. grain, the Soviet Union has been shopping elsewhere since the 1980 partial grain embargo. Last year the Soviets bought only about 60% of the 23 million tons of U.S. grain that the Government offered to sell them, and their purchases are expected to be lower this year. At a meeting with American officials in Vienna last month, the Soviet Union's chief negotiator, Boris Gordeyev, refused to commit to any new grain...
John Maher '60, national director of Oxfam's Fast for World Harvest, called Harvard's project "very significant," saying. "It will be enough to fund 10 of our projects...
This week and last, in Illinois and elsewhere, the harvest intruded on that lush prairie silence. Sitting in a cab 9 ft. above ground, Steffen steered his rumbling 1970 John Deere combine up and down the quarter-mile-long rows. Each ear of corn was picked, shucked and stripped of its hard kernels, and its denuded cob spat back into the field. Steffen, whose 420-acre farm is near Cropsey (pop. 90), thinks he is harvesting his best crops ever: perhaps 25,000 bu. of corn, 9,000 of soybeans. But that is not really good news. "If it goes...
...viewed as a national affront. Says Sir Andrew Gilchrist, former chairman of the Highlands and Islands Development Board: "The culmination of increasingly bad years is reducing the attraction of salmon fishing in Scotland to almost negligible proportions." Canada, Norway and the Republic of Ireland have also seen their salmon harvest fall in the past decade...