Tag: grain
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#MorningMonarchy: April 12, 2017
Soda spills, young poo and death by doughnut + this day in history w/FDR dies and our song of the day by Ride on your Morning Monarchy for April 12, 2017.
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Better supplies to drive world food prices lower in 2012?
from reuters: Improved grain supplies will help lower food prices this year after sharp rises in 2011 and take the wind out of price volatility, easing inflation concerns, a senior official at the United Nations’ food agency told Reuters on Monday. Over the next decade, however, prices are set to rise for major food and…
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corn effect: food prices likely to stay high
meanwhile, record output seen for grains* from ap: The U.S. government barely changed its estimate for next year’s corn surplus, which is expected to stay small and keep high food prices high. The Department of Agriculture estimated Friday that farmers will have 848 million bushels of corn on hand at the end of next summer.…
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one quarter of US grain crops fed to cars – not people
from guardian: One-quarter of all the maize and other grain crops grown in the US now ends up as biofuel in cars rather than being used to feed people, according to new analysis which suggests that the biofuel revolution launched by former President George Bush in 2007 is impacting on world food supplies. The 2009…