Food stamp policy split fuels farm program debate
The Farm Bureau backs phasing out federal price supports while two groups push high supports and acreage cuts. Kleckner warns against tying food stamps to farm policy, while Amidei of the Food Research Action Center highlights inequities of state control and rising costs.
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Farm Bureau
Kleckner
Nancy Amides
Food Research Action Center
Washington
Mississippi
Vermont
Amidei
Sun Belt
Northeast
Midwest
Department of
Congress
John Kennedy
Kennedy
West Virginia
Senate Select Committee On Nutrition and Human Needs
George McGovern
South Dakota
USDA
Public Health Service
Erosion Seen as Nation’s Top Agricultural Problem
Henry Becker III of the U S Agricultural Research Service ranks soil erosion as the nation’s gravest issue, with about 5 5 billion tons of topsoil lost annually. The piece notes Dust Bowl lessons, exports rising from one third of planted acres, and advances like conservation tillage to curb erosion including no till and reduced till practices. It highlights slotting fields with straw filled trenches as a promising method to cut erosion, improve water retention, and boost yields, with practical farm equipment under development.
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Tom Stevenson
Washington Post
Henry Becker III
U.S. Agricultural Research Service
Mississippi River
U.S
Becker
ARS
Washington State University
Keith Saxton
Donald McCool
Richard Papendick
Saxton
Washington
Palouse County
Redpolls Seen At Local Feeder Warms Iowa Winters
Reports say common redpolls are visiting local feeders as flocks of 20 to 30 appear in yards. Birds migrate from Arctic edges and Alaska to spend cold winters in Iowa, mingling with pine siskins and goldfinches while feasting on millet niger thistle and sunflower seeds. They are small gray brown birds with a red cap and black chin, noted for restless wavy flight and winter resilience.
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Catherine Eckstein
Free Lance
Arctic
Iowa
Alaska
Canada
Spring blooms at Des Moines Botanical Center event
Des Moines Botanical Center at 909 East River Drive features over 4 000 flowers including tulips daffodils hyacinths azaleas and more. Novelty comes from multi hued flowering cabbage and kale. Breath of Spring runs through March 30 with modest admission and weekday hours. For information call (515) 283-4148.
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Des Moines
Des Moines Botanical Center
East River Drive
Botanic Center
Nader Calls For Civic Culture to Support Consumer Movement
Ralph Nader urged a new civic culture and the mobilization of full-time citizen activists to sustain the consumer movement through the Reagan era, arguing organized public involvement is essential for progress and oversight.
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Ralph Nader
Chinese burial duty ties deaths to birthplace
Chinese belief holds that a person must be returned to his birthplace for burial so his spirit can join ancestors. If not, the deceased’s spirit is said to wander among strangers, unable to rest with forefathers.
Gift for Hattie Walker Committee Chooses Bond
In the third meeting of the Gift for Hattie Walker Committee the group resolves a deadlock over a going away gift for Hattie. After 42 suggestions and rising tempers the decision is a $1000 United States Savings Bond to let Hattie choose her own dream or purchase.
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Bonnie Murray
United States
Doris Rapp
Hattie Walker
Hattie
Beth Miller
Beth
Grace Brown
Doris
Ann Taylor
U.S
la Sorta
Grace
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