Sentences with phrase «major wheat producers»

Based on the location of recent outbreaks, Colin Wellings of the University of Sydney in New South Wales, Australia, says some of the world's major wheat producers are at risk from the new strain.

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In 2010, droughts in Russia, Ukraine, China and Argentina and torrential storms in Canada, Australia and Brazil — all major wheat and grain producers — considerably diminished global crops, driving commodity prices up.

One compound, nitrate, is a major component of inorganic fertilizers that has helped make the area encompassed by the Mississippi River network the biggest producer of corn, soybeans, wheat, cattle and hogs, in the United States.

Italy is one of the world's major producers of durum wheat, and FHB has been permanently present there since 1995.

Not far from Little Venice you'll find the famous windmills, which have stood overlooking Mykonos Town since the 16th century reminding visitors of the island's past as a major producer of wheat.