Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Wheat prices mounted rapidly last week. Corn prices followed. They reached a point about 30% higher than the week before. If the movement goes on at the same speed with which it has begun, dollar-and-a-half wheat will be a reality in the near future...
...bare facts are these: World wheat production is less than last year ?perhaps 10% or 15%. The available supplies of domestic wheat will be about 5% less, according to Department of Agriculture's estimates...
...decrease in world wheat supplies means that the surplus which drugged the international market last year, following a remarkably large crop, will be largely non-existent this year. Prices will be higher and the U. S. farmer will garner the greater part of the advantage because his production is not off as much in proportion as the general world production...
When the price of wheat went below $1 a bushel and the price of other farm produce, comparatively, almost as low, then remarkable things happened to the farmers and the farming industry...
Political Revolt. The insurgent-farmer move in politics will undoubtedly be affected by the uptrend which wheat and corn prices have taken in recent weeks. September wheat went up to about $1.25 a bushel. The Department of Agriculture reports from 11 countries which last year produced 64% of the world's wheat, showed an estimate of 15% below last year's production. This, if it comes to pass, means improved prices. It means more money in the pockets of our farmers. It is a worse blow to the LaFollette ticket than any political maneuver which could be engineered...