From the Lawrence Daily Journal-World for July 9, 1974:

• The price of hay was skyrocketing this year, according to area farmers. Shortages of baling wire, baling twine and fertilizer had driven up the selling price of hay, and since it was used as cattle feed, this was expected to result in higher beef and milk prices in the following year. Gene Nunemaker, Rt. 4, said brome hay which he and some associates sold recently had gone for $11.64 per bale delivered, about twice the previous year’s price. “There’s no way a person can feed this hay to livestock at these prices,” he said. High hay prices, combined with other areas of inflation, would “make the farmer sit down and take a good long look at how many cattle he’s going to buy for the next year,” Nunemaker said.
• Robert P. Green, a forklift operator at the S. S. Kresge Distribution Center, 2400 Kresge Rd., had suffered a broken leg in a collision of two vehicles earlier the previous day. Police said Green was injured as he attempted to jump from his tractor when it collided with another one being driven at an intersecting passageway in the storage warehouse.