Dr Feng counters fears about a grain embargo, by pointing out that any land used in other food production could fairly quickly be re-converted to grain in an emergency.
Instead of spacious skies and amber waves of grain, Thompson looks out onto tight streets and flickering traffic lights.
He branched out into grain storage, well-digging, and even owned a funeral home.
At the moment, it mostly buys grain and doles it out in areas where there is little or no food.
But the best way to head off these unwelcome developments may be to allow farmers to diversify out of grain, into more profitable products.
And what if we gave this to you in a very aspirational container, with a spoon made out of whole grain to eat it with?
She discovered that she could scoop handfuls of mixed sand and grain and then toss the mix out onto the water.
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At Passover, millions of Jews forgo leavened grain and eat matzo, tricking out the cracker in various ways to mask its essential, incontrovertible blandness.
Smith, playing against type, plays with the grain of her skill, drawing out the nimble, mercurial aspects of a woman we are almost convinced is a pure villain.
Similarly, Jenny Aker of the University of California at Berkeley carried out an analysis of grain markets in Niger, published in 2008, to see how the phasing-in of mobile-phone coverage between 2001 and 2006 affected grain prices.
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Believe it or not, the cleaning must be sufficiently scrupulous so as to ensure that not a single grain of desert sand is transported out of the Middle East, lest it carry bacteria or diseases back to U.S. shores.
But others say stockpiled grain has already been earmarked for handing out to people in the towns.
Compounding this imbalance is the fact that continuing urbanization and property development have taken large amounts of farmland out of production, threatening grain supply and agricultural development.
To extend the analogy, toss out the gin and haul around grain alcohol instead.
The prominence given to mayors at the convention is also a reminder that, for all the amber waves of grain and frontier nostalgia, more than four out of five Americans today live in urban areas.
The separate elements are so perfectly joined together that the Riva looks as if it might have been carved out of a single tree, the grain of the cedar lustrous under gleaming varnish.
And so every fall, I'm off to the store to buy some kind of miso made with some kind of grain that I sincerely hope I'll figure out how to use sometime soon.
Now beer store shelves are stocked with rye beers, and their all-too-easy puns (Bear Republic's Ryevalry comes out this fall), as this stalwart grain, makes a new tradition of its own.
Given these circumstances, IMF protestations about recognizing the dangers of bailing out foreign investors must be taken with an outsized grain of salt.
There should be a law to withhold unemployment benefits from the members of the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union who voted themselves and their fellow workers out of work.
The storage rooms near the grain silos have been gutted and left empty, circuit breakers ripped out of electrical boxes, leaving only a few dangling wires.
That is in line with the Scottish Engineering survey, out last Monday, which seemed also to be going against the grain of poor expectations further afield.
To be taken with a grain of salt is its claim to possess a secret-sauce algorithm that spits out a warning when a stock is likely to tumble.
"There are a lot of products out there that use tricky wording so you believe it's whole grain when it's not, " says Cynthia Harriman, director of food and nutrition strategies at the Whole Grains Council, a subsidiary of the nonprofit food advocacy group Oldways Preservation Trust.
Take the easy way out, and you'll never fully appreciate the wonders of this most American grain.
Zambia's problems have been compounded by floods which have wiped out a large proportion of this year's crop, coinciding with a shortfall of grain - particularly the country's main staple, maize - across Southern Africa.
Work is slow along the 525-foot-wide route to Umm Qasr's grain elevator, where the Dredge Carolina chews up the mud with its 3, 000 horsepower cutter and suctions out the loosened silt.
The sharp drop in world prices for oil and grain precipitated by the past few months' economic turmoil has literally, if probably temporarily, taken the energy out of last summer's vitriolic "food-versus-fuel " debate.
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