Sentences with phrase «world grain supplies»

When world grain supplies tightened in 2007, there was no idled U.S. cropland to quickly return to production and there were no excess grain stocks to draw upon.

Not exact matches

In order to protect the estimated 15,000 supply - managed farmers in Canada (including milk, poultry and egg farmers), Findlay estimates that the economic prospects of more than ten times that many farmers — who very much want to export beef, pork and grain to the world — could be quashed.

In fact, a preference for white wheat products in Asia has contributed to a decline in the export of U.S. red wheat to this rapidly growing region of the world.5 Since farmers can switch fairly readily to white wheat, the forces of supply and demand should ensure that there is enough white wheat to make popular whole grain products.

«Faced with a diminishing sea freight advantage and increased competition from low - cost producers around the world, the Australian grains industry must continue to implement initiatives aimed at increasing productivity inside the farm gate and throughout the supply chain.

Ken is also editor and publisher of The Non-GMO Sourcebook, the world's only «farm to fork» directory of suppliers of non-GMO seeds, grains, ingredients, animal feed, and food products.

Roseboro also is the editor and publisher of The Non-GMO Sourcebook, the world's only «farm to fork» directory of suppliers of non-GMO seeds, grains, ingredients, animal feed, and food products www.nongmosourcebook.com).

If OPEC can limit oil supplies (thus creating high energy prices) I see no reason why the rest of the world can't divert grain to fuel generation to create high food prices.

A quick look at the FAO (2013) stats shows the supply of all these grains combined is a tiny fraction of the total world production and consumption of grains and seeds.

To ease global food crisis, rice with submergence tolerance is needed: -2007 Bangladesh Tista / Jamuna Rivers flooded million hectares up to 3 weeks; cyclone Nargis flooded 1.75 M Irawaddy - grain supply affected by population growth, diversion of grain to biofuels and to livestock as more people eat meat - funding contraints on R&D - crippled developing world extension systems

Indeed, as a result of official policy in the United States and Europe, including aggressive production targets, biofuel consumed more than 6.5 percent of global grain output and 8 percent of the world's vegetable oil in 2010, up from 2 percent of grain supplies and virtually no vegetable oil in 2004.

When 6.5 % of the world's grain is removed from the global food supply, the wealthy pay double for food and the poor simply starve because they can not afford to eat.

With 60 percent of the world's grain harvest produced on irrigated land, anything that reduces the irrigation water supply reduces the food supply.

In the 1970s, when tight world food supplies were generating unacceptable food price inflation in the United States, the government restricted grain exports.

World grain from U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with data for 1950 — 59 from Worldwatch Institute, Signposts 2002, CD - ROM (Washington, DC: 2001), and data for 1960 — 2011 from USDA, Production, Supply and Distribution, electronic database, at www.fas.usda.gov/psdonline, updated 10 May 2012.

Fortunately, the United States — the world's dominant grain supplier — had substantial stocks at that time that it could draw upon, allowing it to meet its export commitments.

Lester's book analyzed the effect of China coming into the world grain market in a huge way — and how China could easily purchase most of the world's exportable supplies of grain, leaving other grain - importing countries scrambling.

For perspective, the estimated 114 million tons of grain used to produce ethanol in 2009 in the United States is the food supply for 370 million people at average world grain consumption levels.

During the last half of the last century, ensuring adequate supplies of grain in the world market at a time of surplus production capacity was a relatively simple matter.