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...laugh out of your statement, "But farmers have been able to insulate themselves from stunning increases in food costs ... by producing much of what they eat." We farm and raise corn and soybeans. We have a small garden, but we do not raise beef, pork, eggs, chickens, wheat or coffee. If we ate only what we produced on our farm, we would...
...poorest areas. Fifty years ago, Khomein was controlled by landlords. A peasant who herded sheep was paid 30 rials, the equivalent of half a dollar, for a year's work. Tenant farmers who came to the area were given quotas to meet: often their entire crop of wheat was for the landlord, with nothing left over to make bread of their own. Mrs. Mokhtari remembers that the Ayatullah's grandfather and father were "always the dissenters, the militants." They allowed poorer farmers to take produce from their own lands, persuaded richer tenants to share their crops, distributed...
DIED. Elvin C. Stakman, 93, pre-eminent plant pathologist who led the war against wheat diseases; in St. Paul. Combating the fungus diseases called rusts, he attached Vaseline-coated slides to plane wings in 1921 and by collecting the parasitic red spores in the air, proved that the disease blew seasonally across the nation. A member of the University of Minnesota faculty (1909-53) and the Rockefeller Foundation, "Stak" increased the world's wheat yields by breeding new, hardier strains as the fungi also continued to evolve. "Find out all you have to buck," he once said, "and then...
...higher, or lower. Nerve-racking enough, but the goods they are buying and selling are extremely volatile, their value subject to human whims, storms in the farm belt, or a boost in interest rates in Washington. Most of the trading takes place in traditional commodities, such as wheat and corn, but in recent years the Board of Trade has added futures in U.S. Treasury bonds and the enticing "Ginnie Maes" (as the Government's National Mortgage Association certificates are blithely called). The Board of Trade is the nation's largest commodities exchange, a market that has become...
...Sinkiang, Tibet and Inner Mongolia) that constitute nearly 40% of China's land mass support only 2% of the population. In the west and northwest are immense stretches of desolation, including the sere, uninhabited stretches of desert and the frozen reaches of Tibet. To the north is the wheat and millet zone, a land of brown, eroded hills, broad turbulent rivers, and tens of thousands of dusty mud-walled villages. Rainfall is so irregular and water so scarce that for thousands of years peasants of these villages, armed with picks and shovels, have fought one another over rights...