• Traders say they used to be allowed to deliver grain to the premises of several North Korean trading companies.

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  • The nation lacks the rail capacity to haul grain to ports like Houston or Portland, and it would take 60 tractor trailers (and a fortune in diesel fuel) to move the contents of just one barge.

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  • Water was also plentiful it takes 1, 000 tonnes of water to produce a tonne of grain and an ingenious process known as Haber-Bosch makes synthetic nitrogen fertiliser easily available to grain farmers.

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  • Grain elevators supported by railroads allowed Chicago to increase the density of its markets as farmers moved from sacks of grain to wagonloads.

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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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  • "Given that global and U.S. grain inventories remain very tight, grain prices will continue to reflect growing conditions and yield potential for both U.S. and global crop production, " Agrium said, citing a June report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which anticipates global grain and oilseed stockpiles to scrape 35-year lows through 2009.

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  • Officials fear that if China becomes dependent on grain imports, it would be vulnerable to a grain embargo at times of international tension, perhaps led by the United States.

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  • This could probably be accomplished by the Administration, or the Congress, rescinding these taxpayer guarantees prior to the physical shipment of grain to the Soviet Union.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

  • To ease the transition from grain to grape, the wine institute believes it has found a perfect and readily available gastronomic companion: the Bavarian Weisswurst, a rubbery white sausage usually drowned in sweet mustard.

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  • If the grain yield falls to 72 million tons, the lower end of the union's forecast, then Russian grain exports may tumble to 11 million tons in the current marketing year, which starts July 1, union head Arkady Zlochevsky said.

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  • Wavy, ribbon and curly grain are byproducts of spiral grain that reverses itself periodically as a tree grows to produce a thing called interlocked grain.

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  • Along with that, grape growers must accept that their chosen profession is subject to the same market forces as every other commodity, from grain to natural gas.

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  • "We're finding that when you rub a natural biological surface that has an orientation - that has a grain, if you will - and you run that grain perpendicularly to the long axis of the ridges, we find a dramatic increase in friction, " Dr Dominy told BBC News.

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  • Filburn, upheld a Roosevelt-era law limiting grain production to prop up prices even when the farmer in question was growing grain entirely for his own consumption.

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  • 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?

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  • 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.

    ECONOMIST: China

  • But long term, food prices are not likely to come down as long as they suffer from the double whammy of high fuel costs and diversion of grain to make ethanol.

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  • This week they refused to sell grain and livestock, and blocked roads to stop them being transported, to try to make Congress cut export taxes.

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  • Agricultural irrigation along with cattle feed lots located near the plants to take advantage of the co-product distillers grain add to local water demands.

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  • As somebody who easily gets obsessed with measurements while cooking, filling the teaspoon of salt to the grain, recipes presented in this form feel closer to how I imagine anyone with actual cooking acumen approaches the metonymic kitchen.

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  • "Europe has enough grain to produce both its food and fuel needs, " he added.

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  • By summer's end it will be unable to feed its population due to grain shortages.

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  • Like leaving the grain to be eaten directly by humans rather than being processed through the pig.

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  • Many livestock farmers are losing money feeding high-priced grain to their herds, which could force them to shrink the size of their operations.

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  • The ration of water to grain is approximately 2:1, though I find that as with most grains, one needs to keep checking and potentially add more.

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  • Prices of the food grain to be supplied under the program would be frozen for three years from the date of implementation, expected in the second half of the year.

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  • Quick recycling switched the point of attack once more and Kiwi centre Williams cut back against the grain to go over by the posts, Wilkinson converting for 13-6 as Toulon took the lead for the first time.

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  • Indur Goklany, a much-published scholar on the consequences of global warming policies, recently calculated that in 2010 alone, diversion of grain to biofuels (like ethanol) caused nearly 200, 000 excess deaths in the developing world because of increased prices.

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  • And those same officials allow the farmers to keep selling grain because otherwise they would have to compensate or relocate them.

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  • Apart from employment schemes, an affected country needs grain reserves, rural roads, and the ability to spot distress and move grain quickly.

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