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...prices of food would rise only slightly this year. Last week they backed up that welcome forecast. According to the department's spring "crop production" report for 1976, the nation's corn crop will reach a record 6.55 billion bu. this year. Since corn is a key livestock feed, its abundance should help to hold down the price of meat. An equally important crop will do almost as well: the wheat harvest should come in at a near record 2.04 billion bu. This torrent of grain will not cause a glut that will harm farm prices, however, because...
...grain, instead of the anticipated 108 million tons, will be harvested this year, says Petrus Lardinois, the European Economic Community's farm commissioner. The sugar-beet crop will probably total 9.5 million tons-1.5 million tons below expectations. Lacking fodder, many farmers are slaughtering part of their livestock herds. There is a beef glut right now-and the chance of a shortage next winter...
Consumers will continue to be burned long after the heat wave is over. Feed for livestock has virtually disappeared in Europe-French dairymen have been feeding surplus bananas to their cattle-and the scarcity will lead to early slaughter of herds and meat shortages later...
...South American fire ant has advanced from its initial beachhead?Mobile, Ala., in 1918?and now infests some 150 million acres in nine Southern states, injuring and sometimes killing livestock with its fiery sting and driving farm workers from the fields. Some experts believe that it will continue to press forward, adapting to cooler temperatures and inexorably moving toward both the North and the West. In forest areas, the gypsy moth, the tussock moth, the spruce budworm and the southern pine beetle are wreaking devastation on huge areas of woodland, defoliating and killing millions of valuable trees and destroying...
...previous trips that fruits and vegetables are the best weapons against scurvy, which sometimes kills as many as half the crewmen on long voyages. He also plans to distribute English animals among Pacific islands to see how they will fare in different climates (hence his arkful of livestock). As for Omai, he too has loaded the Resolution with unusual cargo to carry back from England to Tahiti: a portable organ, a suit of armor-and something that his people consider sacred, a large bundle of red feathers...