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...commodities markets traders were disappointed by the size of the Cook and Cargill deals. Wheat, corn, soybean and oat futures fell. The question mark, says Crop Analyst Conrad Leslie, "is at what price level the Russians will make further commitments." Meaning: the shrewd Soviet buyers may be waiting for prices to come down a bit further before placing further orders...
...quality and broken grain, or contaminated by dirt or moisture. Last week a delegation of European grain company officials were in Washington to press similar complaints. American farmers and dealers alike are angry and anxious for an end to the problems. "We produce a good, clean product," one Iowa soybean grower told that state's Democratic Senator Richard Clark. "I'll be damned if we're going to let petty bribery, sloppy work and greedy exporters throw it down the drain...
...impact of the world shortage on the United, States was accentuated by several other developments. The 1972 fish catch off the Peruvian coast was a failure, reducing the supply of protein meal available to European markets and in turn increasing the export demand for soybean and soybean meal in the United States. The failure of the peanut crop in South Asia and parts of Africa further contributed to the shortage of protein meals. The major devaluation of the dollar made the United States a particularly cheap place to acquire needed proteins and hence acted to increase the demand...
...Department of Agriculture, which now has 105,907 employees (one for every 26.6 farmers), helped bring us the soybean shortage and the inflationary Russian wheat sale...
...Agriculture estimates. The rise in target prices on cotton would immediately start Government payments flowing to farmers because the new target price would be above the present market level of about 40? per Ib. The rise could also cause some farmers who had been diverting land from cotton to soybeans to switch back again, thereby shrinking soybean supplies and possibly raising prices of the beans and also of cattle and hogs that are fed on them...