The Washington Post, August 17th, 1988
AMERICAN GRAIN and soybean reserves will fall to perilously low levels over the coming year. That is the meaning of the crop estimates just published by the Agriculture Department. Grain production will be down nearly a third from last year. Unfortunately, the United States is not the only country with a poor harvest. Production will apparently be low in China as well. The world is now moving into the most serious grain shortages since the early 1970s, as Lester Brown of the Worldwatch Institute has been warning. The trouble that time started with the Soviet crop failure in 1972. It was a pres...
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