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...hours the Indian-Pacific rushes over a kaleidoscope of landscape. From the steep Blue Mountains of the Great Dividing Range it speeds toward the stark-naked Nullarbor Plain. It flashes by farms with earth so red that the livestock watering holes seem to be filled with blood. It races past nickel, lead and gold mines, flocks of fleecy merinos, smelters, slag heaps, ports and forests. It passes signs exhorting WELFARE NOT WARFARE and OUR HOSPITAL NEEDS YOUR HELP: PLEASE GET SICK. A big painted rock aimed at shooing away pilots seeking to land says PISS OFF. To the north, lights...
...measure, however, the Soviet purchases were so surprisingly large that they disrupted the U.S. market. When the Russians came to Washington in June 1972, to seek financing for what was then a $750 million sale, they left the impression that they would want mostly such livestock feeds as corn and soybeans, of which the U.S. then had plenty. As it turned out, the Russians bought about 433 million bu. of wheat, 246 million bu. of corn and 37 million bu. of soybeans...
...pile up supplies and bring down prices over the longer term, the Administration will remove, for the first time since the Korean War, all production controls on such basic crops as wheat, cotton and livestock feeds...
Beef Freeze. One major reason for the food price rises is that spiraling costs of animal feed, caused largely by unbridled grain exports, especially to Russia, have prompted farmers to raise less livestock than they had planned. The price freeze resulted in even lower production of hogs and chickens. Phase IV regulations, which will keep beef prices frozen until Sept. 12, will further hold down beef production. Explains Bill Jones, executive vice president of the National Livestock Feeders Association: "This blunder is likely to jeopardize supplies because feeders will hold their cattle off the market until after Sept...
...along with $24 million in other aid from the U.S., plus a total of $50 million from the U.N., Russia, China, and the Common Market countries. But matters are often so desperate that grain for cattle is eaten by people, while critical breeding stock is slaughtered for meat. Existing livestock-mostly sheep, goats and camels -have chewed up all the food cover in sight, and the ecological balance has been so savaged that experts say recovery of the land's food-generating potential may be as much as 30 years away...