Tractors that should now be ploughing land for sowing winter grain have been mobilised to dig trenches round fields to stop forest fires encroaching on farmland.

本来应该开垦土地、播种冬季作物的拖拉机，现在被用来挖掘防火沟，以防止大火蔓延到农田。

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He said the situation could worsen if storms move north and threaten winter grain supplies.

他说，如果暴风雪向北方移动，将威胁到冬季粮食的供应，局势将进一步恶化。

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If we cut down that grain you don't eat this winter.

如果成功,你们在冬天就没吃的了

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Even so, in contrast to only ten years ago, the firms operating in Kansas City today are largely the same as those trading soft red winter wheat at the Chicago Board of Trade and spring wheat at the Minneapolis Grain Exchange.

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