family-run farms typical of the west. When the Soviet Union collapsed, many of those farms were abandoned, leaving large areas of land (estimated at around 20 million hectares) to be colonized by ...

Sonja Hillgren: But Block conceded that heavier Soviet grain-buying was not enough to turn around the poor economic conditions in rural America. High interest rates, low farm income, the strong ...

Agriculture continues to be the Soviet Union’s No.1 headache. At the time when farm productivity is rising everywhere else in the world, per-acre yields are actually falling in the Soviet Union.