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Almost everywhere farmers reveled in the record high prices for their harvests. In Ramsey County in the heart of North Dakota's wheat country, people told the tale of the farmer on the verge of selling his durum wheat for $7.20 per bu. (compared with $1.35 last year) who slipped out to the toilet. By the time he returned, the price had jumped 600. In Maine, clam diggers pocketed $18 per bu. for clams that brought $10 per bu. last year. Tuna harpooners sold their catches for 650 per lb., compared with 150 last year. The food producer...
Under public pressure to act decisively, City Manager John Corcoran named BU Law Professor Paul J. Liacos to investigate Largey's death and police procedures for handling such incidents. Corcoran also promised to personally conduct a disciplinary hearing for police officers involved...
...Last year the Soviet Union, needing grain because of serious crop failures, sent a delegation to hole up in a New York hotel to buy wheat-440 million bushels of it. The U.S., long plagued by grain surpluses, obligingly held the export price of wheat at $1.63 per bu. by subsidizing farmers and grain dealers to the tune of nearly $300 million. It even provided the U.S.S.R. with $750 million in credit to make the deal possible. Thus the Soviets made off with one-fourth of the total U.S. wheat crop for a cool $ 1 billion-causing shortages and price...
Under public pressure to act decisively, City Manager John Corcoran named BU Law Professor Paul J. Liacos to investigate Largey's death and police procedures for handling such incidents. Corcoran also promised to personally conduct a disciplinary hearing for police officers involved...
...example, in the past 15 years, increasingly potent seeds, pesticides and fertilizers, along with ever more advanced methods and machinery, have almost doubled the average corn yield to 92 bu. an acre. On some experimental farms, yields have already reached 300 bu. Soybean yields have risen by half a bushel an acre per year for the past ten years, to about 30 bu. The Government figures that by 1985, soybean production will increase by more than 30%, to 2 billion bu., and that estimate seems low. Agronomists contend that they could double the soybean crop in a few years...