Word: wheats
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...southern Washington, Farmer-Rancher Monte Shaffer, 49, surveyed 2,000 acres of hilly farm land-one-third of his tillage. The fields should have been rippling with mature wheat; instead they were creased with furrows. Shaffer had plowed most of the land under when it produced nothing more than weed-choked stubble only a few inches tall. Land that only two years before had yielded 50 bu. of wheat an acre is yielding a mere 13 bu. this year. But Shaffer said: "I'm more concerned about the export situation than anything else. Until there's a bigger...
...northwestern section of wheat-growing North Dakota, Stan Erickson, 33, was busy from dawn to dusk, bringing in his crop: 10,000 bu. of durum wheat from 400 acres. The achievement left him and his father with a marketing dilemma. Half of last year's crop-8,000 bu.-is still in storage on the family farm. This year the Ericksons cut back their planting by 200 acres but were still forced to spend $3,000 for an additional, 6,000-bu. storage bin. Says the younger Erickson: "We had too good a year. Last year there...
...Minnesota wheat farmer plowing up the south 40 in a Soviet-built tractor? It sounds about as likely as a Muscovite munching black-eyed peas-but it shouldn't. During the past three years, Satra Corp., a New York City-based firm that markets Soviet exports in the West, has managed to sell more than 1,000 sturdy Soviet-built Belarus tractors to American farmers. This may not be much when measured as a percentage of the total U.S. tractor market (1976 sales: 153,000 units), but it was enough to convince the Soviet state corporation Traktoroexport that...
Though the dry spell has made two out of every three Western communities eligible for federal emergency drought funds, it has barely hurt California agriculture (except for wheat and cattle farms), which uses up to 85% of the water in the nation's leading agricultural state. This year's farm output is expected to be normal-around $8.9 billion-despite a second straight year of drought...
Improvement still seems distant. Under Mrs. Gandhi, Indian industry was mired in deep recession-largely because of impenetrable tangles of red tape. Desai's government did, however, inherit over $4 billion in foreign reserves and record wheat stockpiles. But the Janata regime is hamstrung by internal wrangling. Squabbles over patronage have left many ministerial posts vacant. "I have no time for policymaking because I have no help," moans a minister. One result is that Desai's first budget virtually duplicates that of the former Congress government. Inflation (now 2% a month) and shortages of key commodities (edible...