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...years in Tha Pra, Alex Johnson has introduced the country's first silage system, taught sanitation, farm management, building construction and irrigation, brought high-yield corn (50 bu. per acre) from Indonesia, improved pasture and foliage, showed his charges how to use commercial fertilizer, planted grain and sweet sorghum, introduced the Velvet bean and the cowpea (for soil improvement). In his own acre-plus garden he demonstrated to once dubious Thailanders that pineapples and bananas can be grown well in poor soil, even cultivated tomatoes, collards, okra, eggplant, yellow squash, sweet corn and lettuce...
Uncertainty Removed. The big threat to the Treasury lies in the fact that Benson's scheme removes all uncertainty about what a farmer can get for his corn, no matter how big the crop. The price: $1.12 to $1.15 per bu., about 12? lower than high supports would have been, but 6? to 9? per bu. higher than the present price peg for noncompliance corn. At Benson's price, efficient growers can make good money on all the well-fertilized hybrids that their big tractors can cultivate...
...Present corn surplus: 1,132,000,000 bu., which cost the Government $1.8 billion, eats up $370,000 a day in storage fees...
...scores came on penalty shots by Bruce Johnstone, right inside. Shamus Malin, outside right, scored the other two Crimson goals. Crimson goalie Larry Martin saved a BU penalty kick, bringing his two-game record to two out of three penalty shots blocked...
FARM HARVEST will be 9.5% higher than ever before, despite federal crop controls that cut back planting to smallest acreage in 40 years. Good weather and better growing methods will raise per-acre yield of corn from last year's 46.8 to 49 bu.; of wheat, from 21.7 to 27 bu.; of cotton, from...