Word: harvests
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Rumors that the Arabs were about to lift their oil embargo against the U.S. also eased fears of uncontrollable inflation. The present prices, however, are still far higher than a year ago, and few experts are predicting any further substantial drop until the dimensions of this year's harvest are clearer, both in the U.S. and abroad. Rising costs of farm labor, fertilizer and machinery will also work against a further price drop...
...getting rid of controls, Congress and the Administration are making a risky bet that a record harvest this fall, and a potential drop in oil prices resulting from increased supplies will take much of the steam out of the present inflation. If they are wrong, the big loser will be the already price-burdened U.S. consumer...
Starving Lions. The drought seems to be moving southward. The usually lush tropical forests of the northern Ivory Coast, Ghana, Togo and Dahomey have received so little rain that their coffee and cocoa crops are far below normal. Nigeria's peanut harvest has been cut by two-thirds. Animals as well as people are suffering. More than 3,000 elephants, lions, giraffes and buffaloes have starved to death in Cameroon's Waza National Park...
...Kandinsky and Arthur Dove. Amiet's work, though less aggressively avantgarde, is also of more than parochial quality. After his early apprenticeship with Gauguin's disciples in the Pont-Aven group, he never lost his interest in broad, ripe patternings of color. The colors - as in Apple Harvest, 1907 - could attain an ecstatic, ballooning lightness...
...some farmers are speculating in a way. Last year Illinois Farmer Elliott Y. Johnson, 51, earned 50% more than in 1972 because the price of the produce he sold more than doubled. Soybeans, for example, rose to $8.60 per bu., from $3.65. Johnson held back more than half his harvest for sale this year, when prices could go still higher. Meanwhile, he plans to buy a new $19,000 tractor and make expensive improvements on his grain elevator. "Now," Johnson chuckles, "is a real good tune for a farmer to be paying off his debts...