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farmers spent over $114 billion in 1978 to produce crops, livestock, and poultry, topping the previous year’s $100 billion level. According to the U. S. Department of Agricutlure and the Virginia Crop and Livestock Reporting Service, this averages over $48,000 per farm, nationally.
Feed, accounting for over $16.5 billion, was the major expenditure, followed by livestock and poultry purchases at $13.5 billion; wages at $10.2 billion; rent at $9.3 billion; interest at $7.5 billion; and fertilizer, lime and soil conditoiners at $7.2 billion.
During February and March, enumerators from the Virginia Crop and livestock Reportlhg Service will interview a cross section of Virginia farmers as part of a nationwide program to determine 1979 production costs.
Clarence Dunkerley, Virginia Agricultural Statistician, points out that information about the farm production outlays is important in comparing the farmer’s well-being with that of other groups in the nation’s economy. He adds that all responses will be confidential and only Regional and National summaries will be published.
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Ecological note: The expression used to be Spread oil on troubled waters. Now when there's oil in the water, we're in trouble.
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