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Grain merchants stepped in to set standards, now that grain from multiple fields was going to be mixed, and they established the Chicago Board of Trade.
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The cabin trim on our test car was an exquisite claret-colored Nappa top grain leather, set off with alloy and lacquer-black wood trim.
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In 2008, the last time Russia banned grain exports, it set off a wave of panic buying among importers in the Middle East and North Africa.
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The world situation is more extreme: the USDA says global food prices rose 25% last year, and set a record in January as world grain inventories suffered an estimated 13% decline.
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The son of grain and pig farmers in Saskatchewan, Ayre, 50, set up his company in Costa Rica and handled billions of dollars in online wagers.
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The stage is set, Grice says, for a permanent step up in grain prices, just as oil prices jumped following the 1973 Arab oil embargo.
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Deputy PM Nick Clegg argued that five years was "going with the grain of some of the founding texts of our unwritten constitution" - referring specifically to legislation which set the maximum limit at five years.
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Notable here was the set-up of a three-tiered structure for programs on agricultural commodities like wheat, corn and grain.
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