Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...agricultural depression of 1920-1921 has been accomplished step by step and industry by industry. In 1921 dairying began to enjoy stabler conditions. In 1922 cotton recovered from the worst of its post-war slump. Hogs brought better prices in 1921 and 1922. Corn rallied in 1923 and wheat last year. All this while the cattlemen, however, have been vainly looking for brighter skies. Only recently here conditions favored this long depressed industry...
...consumption cannot be increased, production must be curtailed. This may be done voluntarily under the economic spur of large stocks and low prices, or involuntarily in case Nature blights the 1926 grape crop. But Nature, fickle jade, prefers to cherish grapes that are not needed, and bedevil cotton and wheat that are badly wanted, both here and abroad...
...Grain Growers obtained the backing of all the farm organizations in the West, yet it perished in 1922. The next scheme, entitled the National Wheat Growers, arrived...
...Grain Marketing Co. was favored by a huge rise in wheat prices during its incumbency. Yet it failed to remove speculation from grain trading, as some had claimed it would, and also failed to prove any very profitable enterprise from a commercial standpoint. The only value in the experiment of letting farmer-representatives try their hand at running the terminal elevator business, apparently, has been to prove to them that it is not quite so simple as they had thought. Now, perhaps, individual companies in this field will be less hampered than formerly by legislation passed in the supposed interests...
Increased Canadian and European wheat crops, as well as the mishaps attending our own winter wheat this year, will render 1925 a much less profitable year to wheat growers than 1924. Yet a mammoth corn crop is now apparently under way, and also a cotton crop of unusual magnitude. From the standpoint of domestic conditions, corn is our most important crop. Cotton is a good export crop, and lower prices should prove of considerable international significance-particularly to England, whose cotton industry has long been depressed by high raw cotton prices. England needs, more than anything else, a revival...