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The Real Glut and Price Pressures in Agriculture
The piece argues that supply and demand will restore price balance as more food and goods are produced. Government control cannot indefinitely override markets. It warns that freeing agriculture from supports may create price swings, with storage no longer rewarded and real shortages driving costs higher. It blames public dissatisfaction and narrow thinking for the perceived glut.
China Awakens to Pollution Problems
In Peking and across China the People’s Daily notes pollution deserves prompt action though facts are scarce. Observers see clean streets and heavy vehicle smoke. coal briquettes and aging engines raise air pollution fears while gas rollout aims to reduce domestic smoke. Industrial regions show notable chimney pollution, prompting cautious foreign commentary.
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Peking Reuter
China
People’s Daily
Peking
Peoples Daily
Scientists Test New Rat Poison
British researchers from leading drug houses and the agriculture ministry report a synthetic sex hormone that sterilizes rats, potentially ending reproduction in colonies. Trials of oestrogen-type compounds show promise for a humane, non-lethal population control method.
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London
British Drug Houses Research Laboratory
Ministry of Agriculture
Wire Shortage Warns Of Texas Farm Crisis
Farm Bureau President J. T. Red Woodson warned that a shortage of baling wire fencing wire and cotton bale ties could trigger a livestock feeding crisis this winter. He cited steel import limits plus EPA shutdowns and a global steel shortage as causes and urged steel mills to prioritize production for food and fiber needs.
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Texas Farm Bureau
J. T
Red
U. S
Environmental Protection Agency
World Wide Aid Bolsters Sahel Drought Zone Relief
A global aid wave reaches Sahel nations including Senegal Mauritania Mali Upper Volta Niger and Chad with food shipments transport links and rain. Emergency food supplies may be needed beyond September as livestock losses mount and cattle herds face severe depletion while refuges move south.
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Reuter
Africa
Sahel
Lahe
Sahel Countries
Senegal
Mauritania
Mali
Upper Volta
Niger
Chad
United States
Canada
Soviet Union
Argentia
China
Algeria
Libya
Deci
Niger Republic
New Irradiation Equipment Aids Screwworm Eradication
New specially designed irradiation gear for the land based Screwworm Eradication Plant to be built this fall in Mexico on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec was developed by Chester N. Husman for the Southwest Animal Health Research Foundation SWAHRF. Dr. G Scruggs said the project was approved by SWAHRF trustees over three years ago and will help start the Mexico livestock pest program earlier than expected. The unit will include a sterile fly factory to be built near Tuxtla Gutierrez as part of the United States Mexico Screwworm Program efforts. SWAHRF began in 1961 to cooperate with state and federal agencies.
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Mexico
Tehuantepec
Southwest Animal Health Research Foundation
G. Scruggs
Swahrf
Scruggs
Chester N. Husman
U. S. Department of Agriculture
United States - Mexico
Tuxtla Gutierrez
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