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support loans do offer farmers immediate cash at harvest. At the same time, farmers reta in !control of their wheat and can
|market it at a later date by ;redeeming the loan. Chairman Barksdale acknowledged that predicting the course of the market prices is at best somewhat risky. On the average, wheat
90.5%