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THE AVERAGE level of prices received by Virginia farmers for the month ended October 15 decreased three percent from a month earlier but was 35 percent above the corresponding period of 1972, according to the Virginia Crop Reporting Service.
Prices in mid-October as compared to mid-September were: Wheat $4 per bushel, down 10 cents; corn $2.26, up 5 cents; oats $1.21, up 9 cents; barley $1.74, up 6 cents; soybeans $5.85; alfalfa hay $49.50 per ton, up 2 dol
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