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...five-bedroom home, its undercurrents "shaking the house apart, ripping away the studs from the siding and Sheetrock," as Nick describes it. Unlike past flash floods, which were over in days, the waters may not recede for four months, and the family may not be able to replant their soybean crop for two years...
Crops are submerged under inches of water -- and the entire planting season may be ruined if the fall freeze comes early or even on time. Bob Plathe, who farms 800 acres of soybean and corn in Lu Verne, Iowa, echoes the region's lament. "There aren't a lot of farmers around anymore who can take a hit like this and survive. It's pretty hard for a third-generation farmer to lose his grandpa's farm...
...HILL OF BEANS. What Hills and her European counterparts were specifically wrangling about was oilseeds: soybean, sunflower and rapeseed used as animal feed and in cooking oil. The U.S. has long claimed that European farmers receive excessive government subsidies that make it difficult for foreign rivals to compete. Washington contends that American oilseed farmers have lost nearly $1 billion worth of E.C. business. Though European negotiators made significant concessions on subsidies, they have refused to sign off on the long-term guarantees that the U.S. demands...
There's the mother of budget travel guides, thirty-three year old, Harvard-produced Let's Go. And then there's "the new kid in town," the Berkeley Guides. Published by Fodor's, the new series is being promoted as the fresh, politically aware, soybean ink alternative to stale musings by Harvard's "snotty little rich kids...
...list the ingredients here for fear of nauseating Crimson readers, but the important part reads like this: "...partially hydrogenated vegetable shortening (contains one or more of: canola oil, corn oil, cottonseed oil, soybean oil), modified food starch..." Yes, Jon, absolutely no treife animal shortening...