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...tons-31 million tons more than the year before. For the first time in two years there is enough wheat to come close to meeting demand in the months ahead. Australia alone has just harvested 440 million bushels, more than double last year's crop. Adequate supplies of livestock feed also seem likely. Brazil's record soybean harvest is now being sold round the world and, after a disappearance of a year and a half, Peruvian anchovies, used as a livestock feed supplement, are again being caught. The rise in world farm production should ease demand pressure...
...lunch program, in an attempt to prop up beef prices. Butz's decision came as a complete surprise to the COLC'S food policy committee, which is chaired by Shultz, and provoked an angry reaction from Dunlop, who has greeted recent declines in prices of grain and livestock with undisguised pleasure...
...Your story about the residents of Leisure Village who built a fence around their community [March 11] reminds me of how Greeley, Colo., built a fence around the city in 1871. It was built to protect the city gardens and crops from the livestock of neighbors and farmers outside, and it was necessary for the Colorado legislature to act favorably before the townspeople were allowed to close the gates to the new city at night. The fence lasted until 1874, when it was sold...
...lately stayed remarkably stable in price. That is because the nation's meat supply in general has been large ever since early last fall, when ranchers and feed-lot operators rushed to sell animals held off the market during the so-called summer meat freeze. Now that livestock is dwindling, and the cycle has begun to swing toward shortages; Charles Wilson, economic research director for the big Iowa Beef Processors Inc., believes that beef supplies in the next few months may dip by an "almost frightening" 20%. Such cutbacks have already forced up the price of cattle ready...
...providentially handy Geiger counter assures Merle's survivors that the doomsday Bomb was at least a "clean" one. Some livestock have survived, along with a supply of gram, guns, the wine cellar and Comte's collection of shirts, which sounds as opulent as Jay Gatsby's. Malevil's tribe establishes a sort of feudal agrarian Communism. The band soon discovers that a scattering of other people near by have also survived the holocaust, among them some young women, who conveniently become Malevil's communal wives and future breeding stock. A band of loot ers begins...