Word: wheats
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From Saskatchewan to Texas, from Montana to Ohio hardly any rain had fallen for a month. As dry day followed dry day crop estimators lopped 2,000,000 bu. from their wheat prediction every morning. Before the week was out the winter wheat estimate had fallen...
Sometimes there can be a wide gulf between the two. In Australia, for example, El Nino caused extremely dry conditions that for a while last year had farmers contemplating suicide. But as it turns out, some rain did fall--just in time to rescue the wheat harvest from disaster. Does that mean the drought predictions were wrong? Not at all, says Nicholas Graham, a climate modeler at the University of California at San Diego's Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Think of what El Nino does as the equivalent of rigging a roulette wheel so that it comes up black...
...stand for election every two years in the House, so as soon as you arrive, there is instant pressure to hone in on the economic and political interests of your district," Glickman said. "That's what landed me on the House Agricultural Committee, where I lived wheat and cattle policy for years...
...even lower down. Wheat and flour have been cleared for irradiation since 1963, and over the years spices, pork, fruits and vegetables and poultry have been added to the FDA list. Yet despite the overwhelming endorsement of many health authorities, including the American Medical Association and the World Health Organization--and despite the FDA's renewed assurances last week that radiation at its recommended dosages affects neither a food's taste nor its nutritional value in any detectable way--irradiated poultry, vegetables and fruits are almost as rare as Iranian caviar in U.S. markets. Though NASA has long irradiated food...
Noise is the least of it. Aircraft exhaust killed a wheat field next to the runway, Pickard says, and several years ago, Pickard's cattle came down with a mysterious affliction--heifers losing weight, their eyes pale and blank. His veterinarian finally traced it to the water supply, Lytle's Creek, which had been contaminated with ethylene glycol from Airborne's de-icing operation. Local environmentalists have met with Airborne's lawyers, and the company is studying the problem. But with winter here, the de-icer is flowing again...