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...shameless politicking over the bills did nothing to reduce many farmers' sense of alienation from Washington. Currently, the Midwest is trying to cope with problems created by the most bountiful harvest ever: 8 billion bu. of corn and 2.8 billion bu. of wheat. The resulting fall in prices has been compounded by rising costs, high interest rates and stagnant consumer demand. But many farm leaders now argue that subsidizing overproduction will not solve their problems. Says Iowa Agriculture Secretary Robert Lounsberry: "The election produced a mandate for the marketplace to set the price, but now a lot of people...
...harvest of cash and corn beckons microbiology and business
...seeds of the first revolution-high-yield, fertilizer-hungry super-grains-were sown all over the world in the 1960s. Bread-bare countries like Mexico and Iran were soon exporting wheat, the Philippines became self-sufficient in rice, even Pakistan had a harvest surplus. But soaring oil prices pushed the cost of essential petrochemical fertilizers out of reach of all but the wealthiest countries. Today nearly every country "revolutionized" by the Green Revolution is importing food from the world's half-dozen grain exporters, most notably...
...normally stoic citizens of the Soviet Union may be facing a long winter of food shortages. Estimates of the size of this year's harvest in the U.S.S.R. are falling almost as fast as the temperature on the Siberian tundra. Less than a month ago, American experts predicted 180 million metric tons of grain, which would be 5% less than last year's production and 24% lower than 1978's record harvest...
...last year at the Gorky and Togliatti auto works, the Soviet leaders are expected to import a record 40 million tons of grain. Some Western experts believe that Soviet ports will have trouble handling such heavy traffic. Much of the grain will come from the U.S., where a bounteous harvest has depressed crop prices and made farmers anxious to sell their surplus abroad. A delegation from the U.S. Agriculture Department travels to Moscov this week with an offer to sell the Soviets 10 million more tons of grain. The U.S has already sold 8.8 million tons of grain since...