Word: hay
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Small Help. Primarily through the Federal Disaster Assistance Administration, South Dakota farmers and ranchers stand to receive about $3 million in hay and transportation subsidies. But federal funds can do little to offset the deeper impact of the drought. According to the University of South Dakota's Business Research Bureau, the cash-crop losses could wipe out 47,500 jobs during the next year, as farms and related businesses lose sales or cut back services. If that happens, the state's unemployment rate could jump from 4.7% now to nearly 20%. Local schools may suffer, since they rely...
...dispirited ranchers continue bringing their cattle to auction each week. As Ron Nelson, a cattleman up from Iowa to look over the South Dakota stock, observed recently in Miller, "If this were the first year of the drought, a lot of these boys would take a loan, buy some hay and hold on. But it's been too bad, too long...
...described began to sound remarkably like Bob Dole. Ford's Veep, he said, should be helpful in the farm states. These would be critically important for the G.O.P.'s chances, the states where the Democrats' Walter Mondale -a Minnesota populist-would surely be making hay. The President's running mate should be able to help out with the party chores. And, Dole added, the man should be able and ready to do "some of the gunslinging...
Desperate farmers are saving what they can. Instead of getting the usual 40 to 50 bu. of barley an acre, many are reporting yields as low as 10 bu. Dairy farmers, short of hay and alfalfa, are turning the herds into their parched croplands to find forage. The knowledge that the U.S. has enough farms elsewhere to produce abundant foodstuffs for American consumers does not comfort the farmers. Only rain will help...
...Russell Hay, a Carter delegate from Pennsylvania relaxed with a drink in hand at the ADA's fund-raiser. He was tired, but more than willing to talk about the process of liberal accommodation, and the small role that liberals apparently played at the convention. "Those big liberal issues are done, they are accomplished. There are no problems with sex, with color," he says. Hay, who hails from Pennsylvania Dutch country, said he had talked about the liberal absence with his delegations, and many agreed that "we are seeing the fruits of the McGovern push in 1972. The party...