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...cover their production costs. So far, American Agriculture, operating out of a small one-story building in Springfield, has spent a modest $20,000, raised from farmers' donations, to print leaflets, make telephone calls and send out proselytizers. "You can't believe the response," says Dan Yokum, a Colorado farmer who helps man the phones in the organization's headquarters. Argues Bud Bitner: "This thing is cooking all over...
...Yokum, 32, is doing what he likes best: farming...
...Yokum farms 1,360 acres near Vilas, Colo., which have been in his family for three generations. He has 200 acres planted in corn, 200 in grain sorghum and 300 in wheat. He also has 150 head of mixed heifers. Yokum's wife, Carlyn, 32, helps with chores in addition to taking care of their two children: Danni, 4, and Bobie...
...sense, Yokum is a victim of his own efficiency. "In 1974 the Government told us to plant fence row to fence row," says Yokum. "They needed all the grain we could produce to aid a starving world." The farmers did as they were told. The upshot: a huge surplus of grain that drastically reduced prices. In 1973 the Government was concerned about the increasing price of meat, and imposed ceilings. "Every time we begin to get a fair price for one of our products," says Yokum, "the Government steps in and puts a ceiling on it." To counteract the price...
Though gone from the papers, many of Capp's creations will live on. Li'l Abner and Daisy Mae long ago slipped into American language and folklore, together with the other denizens of Capp's hillbilly heaven, where Mammy Yokum defended her ragtag family and shaky log cabin against the likes of zoot-suited Evil-Eye Fleegle and his triple whammy. Joe Btfsplk and his perpetual cloud rained down bad luck on almost everyone, and the unluckiest ended up in the hands of Freddie the undertaker. The shmoos rolled over dead and oven ready for hungry hoomins...