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...plans received mixed reviews. Texas Agriculture Commissioner Jim Hightower said farmers need "a long-term program that restricts production and raises commodity prices." Herbert Allen, a Monmouth, Ill., hog farmer, said the programs showed that "the President is dedicated to help us." But Wade Carson, 44, a Southern Illinois grain farmer, spoke for many when he said, "Even with PIK and the other programs, some of us aren't going to make...
...Levine with unaccustomed asperity. "Every decision I make is to try to do that, and I can't help it if sometimes I'm wrong or sometimes I'm no good. That's just the way it is." Levine insists he has no desire to hog the Met's podium. The great opera conductors, he says, are routinely invited, but their crowded schedules usually do not permit them to give a four-to six-week block of time to New York. Moreover, he adds, "every time we put the repertory together...
...Inside the two-room office building, Johnson slips a disc into his computer and types "D" (for dial) and a telephone number. He is immediately connected to the Illinois farm bureau's newly computerized AgriVisor service. It not only gives him weather conditions to the west and the latest hog prices on the Chicago commodities exchange, but also offers advice. Should farmers continue to postpone the sale of their newly harvested corn? "Remember," the computer counsels, "that holding on for a dime or a nickel...
...grain is piling up not only because farmers are so productive but also because of changes in eating habits. In the U.S., cattle and hog producers are buying less feed grain because the recession has reduced meat sales and consumers are switching to cheaper poultry and other substitutes. What is hurting U.S. farmers most, however, is a drop in overseas sales, which in the past decade have become vitally important. Foreign buyers now take one-third of all U.S.-grown corn, one-half of its soybeans and two-thirds of its wheat. But demand is lagging in the face...
...nationwide, cities and towns across the U.S. are aggressively wooing potential businesses, including some long considered undesirable, with carefully thought out economic strategies, featuring special tax incentives, novel financing arrangements and eased environmental and zoning requirements. Stanwood, Iowa, and Sheffield, Ill., 'are fighting over a planned $35 million hog-slaughtering facility that would provide 600 jobs and a $10 million annual payroll. Three years ago, Illinois could not find a community that would accept a new medium-security facility to house 750 inmates, even though it would have meant 500 recession-proof jobs and a payroll of about...