Excerpt from USSR Agriculture Situation: Review of 1976 and Outlook for 1977 Soviet agricultural output in 1976 recovered sharply from 1975's generally poor showing, but was percent below plan. Usda estimates that output in 1977 will increase less than 5 percent over the 1976 level, regaining the levels attained in 1973 and 1974, but actual results will depend mainly on the weather. Weather would have to be unusually favorable for output to exceed the 1973 record. Grain output in 1976 set a new record of 224 mil lion tons, 60 percent more than the drought-dam aged 197 5 crop and 1-2 million tons more than in 1973, the previous record year. Wheat output totaled 97 million tons, 46 percent more than the preceding year's disastrous tally. However, the 1976 grain crop contained more moisture and trash than did crops in most other years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.