Word: yieldings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Chain Reaction. But reports of corn were far from good. Cold weather and floods had taken a heavy toll, leaving an estimated yield of only 2.6 billion bu. The crop was still almost up to the 1936-45 average, but it was down 21% from last year. Good weather, said the report optimistically, might brighten the corn picture considerably. But corn users, not willing to take that chance, started to buy heavily...
...This is paid in the form of live pigs and cash. ... As it has worked out this year, the 'official funds' to be paid by one mu [one-sixth of an acre] of land actually exceed the value of the total crop which that mu can yield. As a result, nobody in the village will accept any land, even as a gift. So land is going idle...
Other experts estimated crop damage at $160 million, gloomily predicted that the U.S. corn yield would fall 40% below last year...
...stem the teardrops' yield...
...acre on wheat, and rapidly reducing their debts. But the socialist CCF figured that this was too good to last. It gave the farmers drought insurance by passing a law that no payment on the principal of a farm mortgage need be made in any year when the average yield from wheat acreage fell below $6; in addition, at least 4% must be written off the principal-at the mortgagee's expense. But interest would still be due on the original principal...