When real rates fall, he points out, commodity producers have more incentive to keep their asset—whether crude oil, gold or grain—in the ground or in a silo, than to sell today.

他指出，当实际利率降低时，商品生产商与其现在卖出商品，还不如公开地或秘密地保留他们的资产——包括原油、黄金或者谷物。

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In recent months, domestic food prices have risen sharply in South Asia and parts of sub-Saharan Africa, despite a fall in global grain prices over the past year.

最近几个月来，尽管去年全球粮食价格有所下滑，但南亚国家和部分撒哈拉以南非洲国家的国内食品价格出现了大幅上扬。

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The next domino to fall could be grain.

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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.

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