Sentences with phrase «wheat and corn doubled»
During the 2007 - 8 food crisis the prices of wheat and corn doubled, while the price of rice tripled.
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Add in the fact that it has double the protein content of wheat flour, and almost 4 times that in rice or corn, and you have a virtuous meal that's bound to impress.
My food plan doesn't include flour or wheat so I substituted 2 tbsp of corn starch for the flour and doubled the feta.
Doubling CO2 from pre-industrial levels, she adds, does boost the productivity of crops like wheat by some 11.5 percent and of those such as corn by around 8.4 percent.
Grain consumption is up 45 lbs per person, per year (within that, corn consumption has doubled and rice consumption has quadrupled) Wheat consumption is up 21 lbs per person, per year
Because turbines take up only 1 percent of the land covered by a wind farm, ranchers and farmers can, in effect, double - crop their land, simultaneously harvesting electricity while producing cattle, wheat or corn.
In 2008, the world experienced spikes in international cereal prices, with wheat and corn prices doubling over about two years and rice prices tripling over just a few months in late 2007 and early 2008.
One day U.S. air travelers will see thousands of wind farms in the Great Plains, stretching from the Gulf Coast of Texas to the Canadian border, where ranchers and farmers will be double cropping wind with cattle, corn, and wheat.
Corn prices nearly doubled and wheat prices nearly tripled between late 2005 and late 2007.
This 41 - million - ton jump doubled the annual growth in world demand for grain almost overnight, helping to triple world prices for wheat, rice, corn, and soybeans from mid-2006 to mid-2008.
If China's farmers can extensively double crop wheat and corn, then U.S. farmers could do the same if agricultural research and farm policy were reoriented to support it.
Elsewhere, Western Europe, with its mild winters and high - yielding winter wheat, might also be able to double crop more with a summer grain, such as corn, or with a winter oilseed crop.