The first is that Gregan was quoted in the media as far back as December 2010 saying that 2011 would be a bumper harvest.

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Rural incomes, boosted by a bumper harvest, grew by 6.8%.

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Food rations are now being distributed in two-month instalments though some say that is because this year's bumper grain harvest has swollen stocks after two years of drought.

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Like the pork and beef industries, in the early spring of 2012, the chicken industry believed this summer would yield a bumper corn harvest, and so it upped production levels to utilize this large crop.

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The company's managing director in Spain and Italy, Jose Maria Collantes, estimates that the Spanish olive harvest will be around 50% of what it was last year - and last year was a bumper crop.

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