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...stalk. In addition, the weather played a cruel trick on farmers. When the grain was maturing and needed rain, the skies were cloudless. But as harvest time approached and dry weather was needed to reap the crop, thundershowers drenched the land. Corn, which is used widely for livestock feed, was badly affected in the flowering stage last month when it most needed moisture. Moreover, the unusual heat accelerated the growth of soybeans and barley so that everything had to be harvested at once. News from the Ukraine showed men and equipment at work in the fields at night, an indication...
...overuse of wonder drugs is caused not only by indiscriminate prescriptions. An astonishing 40% of all the antibiotics used in this country are put into livestock feed to make animals grow fatter. As a result, bacteria resistant to antibiotics are accumulating rapidly in the environment. In 1977 the Food and Drug Administration tried to limit such stock-feed boosters, but under heavy pressure from drug companies, Congress simply ordered more research...
...mortal enemy of the $70 billion American livestock business is the wild coyote. Ranchers claim that last year alone predators-mostly coyotes-marauding from Montana to Texas devoured stray livestock worth $200 million. They have tried fencing off their land, trapping the animals and even shooting them from low-flying airplanes. But ranchers argue these methods always proved unrealistic, inefficient or too expensive. The most effective means of controlling the predators was to scatter animal carcasses laced with a strong poison across pastureland...
...chemical known as Compound 1080. In 1972, however, the Environmental Protection Agency prohibited its use on the grounds that the chemical was not only decimating the coyote population but also destroying untold numbers of dogs, foxes, birds and other animals that happened to eat the tainted meat. Livestock herders, who expect that the Reagan Administration may be less concerned about those environmental considerations than its predecessors, are now asking the EPA to reverse the ban on Compound...
...most celebrated resident of Yorkshire since Lassie, and for many of the same reasons. A friend to farmers and their livestock, as benign as the summer climate, he has made loyalty and kindness the crowning virtues...