Without salaries, they refused to start cleaning the 12-story-high grain silos--a crucial step to receive large amounts of humanitarian aid.
The company expects crop yields to be lower in 2012 owing to the severe drought in the U.S., resulting in high grain prices.
The combination of plentiful monsoon rains and high minimum purchase prices for wheat and rice means the country is forecasting an all-time-high grain production of 250.42 million tons in the crop year ending June 30.
Many food executives had hoped that southern hemisphere farmers would try to cash in on high grain prices by growing bigger crops over the next several months, but weather problems are plaguing growers in several countries.
Many livestock farmers are losing money feeding high-priced grain to their herds, which could force them to shrink the size of their operations.
The US, France and Mexico have said they may convene an emergency meeting at the end of August to address the high price of grain.
They reduced the amount of sugar they were eating, swapped white bread for whole grain and started planning high-protein meals with lots of vegetables.
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.
The Renewable Fuel Standard currently requires transportation fuel to contain certain amounts of renewables such as corn grain ethanol regardless of how high it pushes corn prices or how much weather conditions or tariffs on imported ethanol have reduced supplies.
Grain prices have unsurprisingly propelled to record high levels.
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High crop prices (especially for corn) and tight grain inventories are expected to create huge demand for nutrients.
The green revolution, which spread enabling technologies of high-yield agriculture across the planet, resulted in doubling of grain production.
In other cases, grain spoils due to the lack of simple things such as high quality weather-resistant bags.
Prices for commodities as diverse as gold and grain likewise will have to rise because they are now barely high enough to cover production costs.
Sports bloggers in January began poking fun at Turner online from its 14-student high school to its nonprofit organization, "The Big Flat Community Grain Bin, " created to stem population decline.
In the 1980s, however, those same farmers were crushed by the Soviet grain embargo, double-digit interest rates, a worldwide recession and high energy costs.
The engine had been running at high temperatures for four times longer than a normal F-35 flight, causing a separation of the "grain boundary" on one blade, Mr Bates explained.
Such was my introduction to aquavits (or aquavites or akvavits), high-proof liquors that have been made in Scandinavia since at least the 15th Century by distilling fermented potato or grain mash and flavoring it with savory, herbaceous ingredients.
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