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Sodbusters buy rangeland at prices that are relatively low because of today's depressed livestock industry, plow and plant the acreage in wheat, then sell the cultivated land, sometimes to buyers unfamiliar with the region and the fragility of the range's topsoil. Since the mid-1970s, planted prairie tracts have shot up in value because of speculation in cropland as an inflation hedge and federal farm programs such as PIK (payment in kind...
...York Giants General Manager George Young, a stupendously large man with touchingly weak eyes and a gentle outlook on most things, refers to football players in terms of livestock, as in "The Cincinnati Bengals certainly have the livestock." Since most pro-football people speak this way, it was kind of exciting over the past two weeks when the meat talked back...
...with Denver, as close as he could get to the West Coast. The affair ended the way all N.F.L. episodes conclude lately, with Raiders Operator Al Davis claiming a league conspiracy had prevented him from trading for the Elway pick. One thing, though. The sympathy ordinarily felt toward the livestock seemed to go off somewhere else too. No matter how good they are, workaday towns are nobody's No. 1 draft choice. -By Tom Callahan
...child. Named by the fishermen of Peru and Ecuador, El Niño is a warm current of equatorial water that usually appears around Christmas off western South America. The peculiar ocean movement sharply reduces the fish catch, especially anchovies, which are ground up and sold as meal for livestock and poultry. The present El Niño, which first appeared last June and has raised ocean surface temperatures by as much as 11° F, is no ordinary one. Says Meteorologist Jerome Namias of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography in La Jolla: "This is probably the strongest...
...their land out of production. Under PIK, farmers must idle an additional 10% to 30% of their acreage and can bid to idle all of it. In exchange, they receive crops from Government storage and are free to sell them on the open market or use them as livestock feed. The crops will equal 80% to 95% of what the farmers would normally produce on these plots...