Word: wheated
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Country people are often reluctant to confide in strangers, but their alarm is such that Willard Treu, a wheat, milo and corn grower, rushed up to TIME Correspondent Barbara Dolan when he heard her asking about farm problems at the John Deere store in Quinter, Kans. "I'm scared," he said. "I'm 61 years old and 41 years a farmer, and this is the worst time I've been through...
...heavily subsidized farmers of the Midwest, where prices on such crops as wheat, corn and soybeans have been particularly depressed, seem to be suffering the most. The rural South has also been hard hit. California, with its wide diversity of crops (more than 200 in all) and clement weather, is faring better, but even there growers are worried. Because the large Eastern markets are close, mid-Atlantic farmers have avoided the export crunch that has badly hurt the heartland...
...just like to watch things grow," is the way J.O. Cross Jr., 58, explains his decision to follow his father's vocation. He bought his own 360-acre spread in central Georgia's Dooly County in 1953 and planted a variety of crops (soybeans, cotton, peanuts, wheat) to hedge against low prices in any one. Profits were never large, but with his wife Ruth teaching at a high school, they were able to send three children through college. "We were enjoying making a living," the balding, bespectacled Cross recalls. "We used to ride out Sunday evenings and just look...
...family-type thing, a way of life. Every time David goes out to drive the tractor now, he leaves a piece of his heart out there." The Jensens owe another $400,000 in mortgages on their land. Their 1,120 acres, on which they have raised mostly wheat for the past 27 years, will be sold at a similar involuntary auction this week...
...allowed to abandon farmers to their fate. Indeed, while the Administration tries to get the Government out of agriculture, some farmers and their allies are taking the diametrically opposite approach. One bill proposed by Democratic Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa would increase farm price supports, by about 30% on wheat, and institute tough planting controls to hold down output...