Word: wheats
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation...
OCCUPATION: Cattle rancher: Wheat farmer...
Miroslaw Macierzynski, 30, is a farmer in a village 45 miles south of Warsaw. On his twelve-acre farm he grows potatoes, wheat and fodder for his three milk cows and two plow horses. He would rather move to the city and get a job as a mason, but his wife Ewa thinks the country life is better for their two sons...
These sales might further depress already low farm prices, but Block thinks the effect would be minor. The reason: if a farmer let land lie fallow on which he could grow, say, ten bushels of wheat, the Government would give him only eight bushels (though exact ratios are not settled). Thus the total reaching the market would be reduced. Farm income would be bolstered because farmers could sell crops without the expense of growing them...
...some cases, a farmer could in effect sell the same crop twice. He could grow wheat on land he kept in production, sell it to the Government at the support price, get it back in payment for the acreage he had idled-perhaps before the wheat had left his farm-and resell it on the open market...