WHEAT FARMERS CALL FOR LEGAL HEMP CROP POT'S KIN IS SEEN AS ANSWER TO SLUMPING GRAIN PRICES.(News)

Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) | April 1, 1999 | Copyright

Dennis Carlson sold his first wheat, grown on a field borrowed from his parents, in 1975, when he was 14 years old. He earned $4.51 a bushel and resolved to follow his father, grandfather and great-grandfather into farming.

Nearly 24 years later, spring wheat is selling for $2.91 a bushel, and Carlson worries whether he can afford to plant next month. ``We're going to get a low price,'' he said. ``And if we get a bumper crop, it's going to get lower.''

Battered by sinking commodity prices and rising costs, Carlson and other wheat farmers are looking across ...

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