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...expected soon to alleviate scarcities of staple foods, especially bread. The Russians intend to mill the fine-quality American and Canadian wheat for flour. Their own sparse grain crop will be used to provide cattle feed. But present shortages of feed have forced the Soviets to slaughter precious livestock herds that are insufficient even in the best of times. Although this may provide a temporary bonanza of meat this winter, it will also diminish supplies of dairy products...
...Labor Statistics figures for wholesale food prices, which eventually show up at store check-out counters, were up 7.6% in September over the same month last year. The news was worse concerning a bunch of unprocessed comestibles that the BLS calls "farm products," including fruits, vegetables, grains, poultry and livestock: up 16.4% over last year...
...gain from the Soviet sales. Last week one of these officials, Clarence Palmby, an Assistant Secretary of Agriculture who became a vice president of Continental Grain Co. at far more than his $38,000 federal salary, was called before Texas Democrat Graham Purcell's House Agriculture Subcommittee on Livestock and Grains. When the brief hearing was over, Purcell declared that "if there was anything done that was legally wrong, we didn't prove...
...used medicinally to protect human victims of heart attacks and strokes against the recurrence of dangerous blood clotting; overdoses can cause fatal internal bleeding. The best known anticoagulant, warfarin, is used in calculated overdoses as a rat poison. In 1968 a two-nation team began work at the National Livestock Research Institute in Mexico City and the U.S. Department of the Interior's Wildlife Research Center in Denver to try to kill bats with an anticoagulant. Choosing the poison-diphenadione-was one thing. But how to get the stuff into the vampires...
...billion or more for farm subsidies, up from $3.3 billion last year. Just to get corn production down, the Government will hand out a record $1.9 billion for feed grains this year. Moreover, price supports for corn raise the costs of feed for ranchers, who in turn produce less livestock and thus cause the price of meat to rise. In 1970, Congress limited each farm to a subsidy of $55,000 per crop. Some big farmers divided their large holdings into smaller units, each eligible for a separate subsidy...