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...crop-storage problem of epic proportions. All across the corn belt, from Indiana to Nebraska and Missouri to Minnesota, a binge of bin and silo building is in full swing. Reason: by the end of summer, U.S. farmers and the Department of Agriculture will be buried under more excess wheat, corn, rice and other products than ever before in history. Last week the immensity of the surplus became clear in the marketplace, as commodities traders sent the price of corn futures plunging to $1.71 per bu., the lowest level in twelve years...
While farmers fret about how to store the huge harvest, much tougher questions will loom as unavoidably as tarpaulin-covered mountains of wheat. The unsentimental truth is that America's farm industry, once a source of pride and power, has become an economic burden. Because so many other countries have improved their agricultural output, maintaining America's vast farming capacity is now a costly exercise in excess. During fiscal 1986 the expense to taxpayers for supporting farm programs will reach, according to the Government's estimates, $24 billion -- a 36% increase over last year. As exports shrivel and imports increase...
Ukraine is traditionally referred to as the Soviet Union's "Breadbasket," known for its extremely fertile "black earth" and wheat production. It also has huge quantities of coal and iron, as well as large reserves of oil, natural gas and various minerals...
...weekly poker group. Another theory gives credit to Arnold Reuben, whose New York restaurant, a superdeli of the '40s and '50s, featured lofty and complex sandwiches named for celebrity regulars. One example: a combination of cream cheese, bar-le-duc (white currant jam), tongue and sweet pickles on whole wheat was inexplicably the Frank Sinatra...
...first memory is of the brightness of light, light all around," the painter wrote as she was approaching her 90s. She had been nine months old, sitting among white pillows outside her parents' farmhouse in the wheat country near Sun Prairie, Wis.; the Civil War had ended less than 25 years before, the Ford was not invented, and Picasso was six. That infant memory of brightness would irradiate her work for the best part of a century, leaving no doubt, when Georgia O'Keeffe died last week in Santa Fe at the age of 98, that one of the great...