Soviet farming
Sir,—ln his article on Soviet farming (September 7) Mark Frankland recycles that hoary old chestnut, the “failure” of Soviet farming practices. He writes on a subject of which he can have no first-hand knowledge, but relies entirely on “estimates by the American Department of Agriculture,” a notoriously tainted source of information about the Soviet Union. It is obvious that Mark Frankland studies Soviet agriculture in the reading-room of the United States Embassy in Moscow. The truth is that the Soviet Union is buying United States grain to feed its livestock. United States grain farmers desperately need the Soviet market to remain solvent and the United States Department of Agriculture is frantically trying to repair the fences so ruinously damaged by the Carter Administration’s 1980 grain embargo against the Soviet Union which hoisted Carter with his own petard. — Yours, etc., M. CREEL. September 8, 1984.
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