When prices started dropping in 2000, the government eventually ended up with a million tons of sugar as loan repayments, which it sold off at a loss.
Commercial farming is a major industry in South Africa -- it distributes produce all over the world while Johannesburg's fruit market sells about a million tons of goods every year.
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But in the UK a million and a half tons still goes straight to landfill.
Ask Bunge what happens to soy futures when China decides it needs a few million tons less soybeans this year from Midwestern farmers.
We are surely not meant to be celebrating the fact that the world gets through a massive 230 million tons of plastic in a year, 90 percent of which is not recycled.
The more meat and poultry Chinese consume along with their rice, the more soy products they will need. 2.7 million tons a year of beans and 3.4 million tons of soybean meal.
He is the founder and chief executive of Steel Dynamics (nasdaq: STLD - news - people ) (38, STLD) , which is a smaller version (4.7 million tons a year) of Nucor, a low-cost minimill operator.
The EIA estimates that in 2012 exports of U.S. coal hit a record 124 million tons.
In 2004, the most recent year statistics are available, the industry caught a record 106 million tons of fish.
According to the latest reported data, China imported a total of 140 million tons of coal in first half of 2012, implying a 66% y-o-y growth.
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The project consists of three mines holding 7.92 billion tons of coal resources, a planned 300 mile railway capable of carrying 60 million tons annually, and a port built to the same capacity at Abbot Point on Australia's Great Barrier Reef coast.
Growing steel production could add another 500 million tons a year of met coal.
Over 20 million tons a year dumped, covered up with earth and left to rot.
When DiMicco was tapped for the top job in 2000, Nucor was producing 11 million tons a year.
In the United States, urban dwellers produce a whopping 250 million metric tons of solid waste every year.
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The purchase made Ispat one of the world's largest producers of direct-reduced iron, at 7 million tons a year.
Alpha shipped a total of 107 million tons of coal in 2011, of which 16.3 million ton was exported.
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Joseph, making it the biggest recycler of scrap in the nation, using 20 million tons a year as furnace feedstock.
Last year U.S. coal exports hit a record 107 million short tons.
While lots of carbon dioxide will go back into the earth, even more--4 million tons a year worth--will be generated by the energy-intensive liquefaction process and vented straight to the atmosphere.
Novatek, for example, is building a new port at Sabetta on the Yamal peninsula to service the LNG trade to Asia, with expectations of first gas in 2016 and exports of 15 million tons a year by 2018.
On the other hand, if the industry scraps all of its smaller and older plants, Credit Suisse estimates, steam coal demand would drop by 15% to 30%, or as much as 324 million tons a year, while gas demand would increase 8% to 16%, or as much as 3 trillion cubic feet a year.
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Additionally, it is developing three other ports with a total capacity of 60 million tons.
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The goal, when the system is completed in 2015, will be to capture 1 million metric tons a year of carbon dioxide and inject it a mile underground.
Within the steel sector, one company that traders should keep an eye on is Nucor, a producer of about 25 million tons of steel annually, including hot- and cold-rolled steel, steel joists and metal buildings.
The city produces millions of tons a year (it peaked at 4.9 million tons in 1989).
Chinese consumers burn about three million tons of peanut oil, considered a high-end cooking oil, exceeding the country's output of 2.3 million tons.
Utilities are forecast to burn 808 million tons of coal this year, a 13 percent decline from last year and the fewest tons since 1992, according to Energy Department data.
All told, the U.S. produced a whopping 5, 638 million metric tons of energy-related CO2 emissions in 2010.
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And in 2010, the output of the Chinese liquor industry reached 8.91 million tons, with a year-on-year jump of 26 percent.
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