Word: soybeans
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have helped reduce enormous surpluses, thus pushing some recent cash prices higher than they had been in nearly a decade-74% above last year's dismal levels. And last week a bit of rain did fall from Topeka to Terre Haute, raising the hope that the U.S. soybean harvest may be closer to normal than predicted...
Agriculture Secretary John Block is considering declaring certain areas in the Midwest "agriculture disaster areas," which would free up emergency federal funds. Block had a chance to see the situation for himself this past weekend when he visited his own corn and soybean farm in northwestern Illinois. Says Jim Swise, who helps run Block's farm: "Some of this corn is brown all the way up to the tassel. Corn just doesn't pollinate when it's 100°. Some of it didn't even put out an ear shoot...
...spot for 175,000 Japanese-Americans scattered around the county. A brand new, $12.6 million cultural complex provides reminders of home: a lush, still garden of camphor and golden-rain trees, a sleek theater for Japanese-language productions, a brick plaza for a snack of age tofu (deep-fried soybean curd) and a stroll...
Seed sellers will not suffer as much as other suppliers. Reason: farmers will be buying groundcover seeds to prevent erosion on acreage set aside under PIK. Some such seeds are already in short supply. Says Bob Reichert, a spokesman for DeKalb-Pfizer Genetics, a major seed producer: "Corn, soybean and sorghum seeds will suffer, but our Sudax, a sorghum sudan grass seed, is almost sold out, and our nitrogen-fixing alfalfa blends are in good demand. That eases the impact...
...Stop and Shop, the general store that serves as a landmark along Route 71 for this impoverished rural community. With unemployment in St. Landry Parish at 15.3%, the job seekers among LeMoyen's few hundred residents have been lucky to find occasional farm work in the nearby soybean and rice fields. Now a huge $25 million plant is rising in an empty meadow across the road from Baker's. When it opens next April, the Martco plant will churn scraps from southern hardwoods into 130 million sq. ft. of building board per year, providing up to 150 jobs...