萨斯喀彻温省大学的一位经济学家richard Gray认为，同以往农场衰落时期相比，当前的农场经济萧条可能不会产生影响深远或持续长久，因为生物燃料现在正同粮食和能源价格密切相关。
The bust, when it comes, may not be as deep or as long as previous farm slumps because biofuels now link grain and energy prices, says Richard Gray, an economist at the University of Saskatchewan.
很难想象还有什么比为一个国家的海岸和农场的生存、人民的健康和经济的稳定而战的更大的战斗了。
It's hard to imagine a bigger fight than one for the survival of a country's coasts and farms, the health of its people, and the stability of its economy.
直接或者间接地，这些日渐崛起的经济强国正在和其他国家进行资源(包括石油和农场)抢夺，原材料的价格也因此被全面推高。
Directly and indirectly, these rising economic powers are competing with the rest of us for scarce resources, including oil and farmland, driving up prices for raw materials of all sorts.
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