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Yokum farms 1,360 acres near Vilas, Colo., which have been in his family for three generations. He has 200 acres planted in corn, 200 in grain sorghum and 300 in wheat. He also has 150 head of mixed heifers. Yokum's wife, Carlyn, 32, helps with chores in addition to taking care of their two children: Danni, 4, and Bobie...
...border is 80 miles from the nearest railhead; during the five-month long rainy season, there are no passable roads out of the area. The native black African population, which opted to stick with the Moslem, Arabic north after the Sudanese civil war ended in 1970, survives through subsistence sorghum farming and livestock raising. HIID anthropologist David Sharry has begun the advance work for this project, out of communication with HIID personnel, officials in Kharthoum and the rest of the outside world for that matter, for months at a time...
Nonfarm income in Texas is about 13 times greater than farm income, but agriculture plays an important role for the state's 12.2 million people, who are spread over 171 million acres. Besides leading in cattle production, Texas outpaces all other states in lambs, goats, grain sorghum, cotton, watermelons, cabbage and spinach. It also vies with Louisiana as the biggest U.S. rice grower...
...showing that plant engineering may some day be practicable. In 1972 Peter Carlson of Brookhaven National Laboratory managed to unite the cells of two species of tobacco and produce a new plant. Carlson, now at Michigan State University, is currently trying to improve food crops such as corn and sorghum. Other researchers are working to produce plants that have greater resistance to cold, an achievement that could expand both growing seasons and areas where crops can be planted...
...Reserves usually refer to grains - such as wheat, corn, sorghum, rice and soy beans - not needed to meet immediate demands. They can be in storage, in transit or in the lield ready to be harvested. Most food statistics use grain as the common measure because it is the major source of calories for man and provides the basic teed tor animals...