Drought Strains Midwest Crops Amid Historic Heat
Severe drought and extreme heat devastate corn and other crops across the Midwest and beyond. Officials warn yields will fall, prices rise, and farmers face subsidy and loan relief as extended dryness stretches from New Mexico to Indiana. Multiple states report persisting heat, scant rain, and potential billion-dollar losses in Nebraska and Iowa grain sectors.
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Iowa
Pottawatomie County
Dale Awtry
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University Ofllinois
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House Passes Bill to Set Strip Mining Standards
The House approved a bill creating a new Interior Department agency to set national environmental and reclamation rules for surface coal mining by 291 to 81. States could enforce stronger standards. a severance tax was rejected. An earmark of 200 million annually from offshore royal ties was approved for reclamation.
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AEC considers reopening H-bomb plants to ease fuel shortage
The U S Atomic Energy Commission weighs restarting some H-bomb production units to relieve growing nuclear fuel shortages. Chair Dixie Lee Hay warns of government storage for spent rods and notes GE's reconsideration of a Mor ris reprocessing plant, with Purex at Hanford as fallback if private plans fail.
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U S Revises 1974 Sugar Import Quotas
Washington UPI The Agriculture Department reduced sugar import quotas for five countries and increased them for nine others aiming to assure adequate sugar deliveries in 1974. The total reshuffling covers 104,589 tons with no change to the overall 12.5 million short tons consumption quota.
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