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...reinforcements, and several thousand of the Tanzanian troops who have remained in Uganda since overthrowing Amin 20 months ago, counterattacked. In the clashes, more than 2,000 civilians were butchered. As many as 300,000 others fled into neighboring Zaïre and Sudan. A desperately needed crop of sorghum is now rotting in the fields simply because there is no one left to harvest...
...show his concern, President Jimmy Carter detoured from a fund-raising trip to Texas and Kentucky to fly to the farm of Mr. and Mrs. Len Range, 40 miles north of Dallas. Their sorghum fields have dropped more than 90% and the Ranges may have suffered a crop loss of $100,000. The President said the Government is trying to do everything it can, adding, "We'll be praying for rain and cooler weather in the future...
Arkansas state officials estimate that 25% to 50% of the soybean crop in that state has already been lost, with yields down as much as 64%. Milo or grain sorghum harvests suffered a 30% to 50% loss. Arkansas dairy farmers reported milk production drops of about 20% because of the heat. And despite George Gershwin's famous song, this summertime the fish are not jumping. Jim Malone of Lonoke, Ark., said that 1.3 million gal. of water evaporated daily from his pond once the temperature hit 100°. He had to pay $5,000 to pump in fresh water...
...million chickens died. Poultrymen hosed down the coops and walked through them day and night, stirring up the chickens so that they would move about and be less likely to suffocate. In Texas the cotton crop-biggest in the state-was suffering, and so were fields of grain, sorghum and soybeans. The ominous forecast for this week: more hot weather...
...exports grew at a steady pace in the 1950s and 1960s, then quintupled in the 1970s, from $6 billion to $32 billion last year, thus holding down the deficit caused by $70 billion in oil imports. The U.S. now exports more wheat, corn and other coarse grains (barley, oats, sorghum) than all the rest of the world combined. About one-fourth of America's 413 million acres of crop land are planted for export, and foreign demand is expected to keep on growing for the foreseeable future...