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CNN |
Cold Ravages Crops
- Ripple effect through economy expected
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TimesUK |
Looming Food Shortages As Wheat Crop
- THE world is only ten weeks away from running out of wheat supplies
after stocks fell to their lowest levels for 50 years
- The crisis comes after two successive years of disastrous wheat harvests,
which saw production fall from 624m to 600m
- Experts blame climate change as heatwaves caused a slump in
harvests last year in eastern Europe, Canada, Morocco and Australia,
all big wheat producers.
- Booming populations and a switch to a meat-rich diet in the developing
world also mean that about 110m tons of the world’s annual wheat crop
is being diverted to feed livestock.
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PrisonPlanet |
Middle Class May Be Subject To Food Rationing
- The UN is warning of a food shortage crisis and drawing up plans
for food rations which will hit even middle-class suburban populations as
inflation and economic uncertainty causes the prices of staple food commodities
to skyrocket.
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WashPost |
Emptying the Breadbasket
- In the 1980s, more than half the farm's acres were wheat. This year
only one in 10 will be, and 40 percent will go to soybeans. Braaten and other
farmers are considering investing in a $180 million plant to turn the beans
into animal feed and cooking oil, both now in strong demand in China. And
to stress his hopes for ethanol, his business card shows a sketch of a fuel
pump.
- nationwide, there is now less
wheat in grain bins than at any time since World War II -- only about enough
to supply the world for four days.
- In 1996, Congress gave a strong nudge to these changes by passing
legislation allowing wheat growers for the first time to switch to other
crops and still collect government subsidies.[Disaster Doublers, RSB] The
result is that farmers received federal wheat payments last year on 15 million
acres more than were planted.
- The U.S. government stopped holding large stocks of wheat in the
1980s, but the United States, nearly alone among wheat producers, allows
countries to shop here even when others have shut off exports.
- These huge distilleries will need corn from an area about
the size of Rhode Island, and many of the acres will come at the expense
of such traditional crops as wheat and sugar beets.
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WashPost |
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- the United States is on track to spend nearly $5
billion on foreign food assistance in 2008 and 2009
- an unexpectedly dramatic worldwide food panic spurred by skyrocketing
prices for corn, rice, wheat and other staples of diets in the developing
world
- In some of the poorest countries in Africa and Asia,
where food costs can consume three-quarters of incomes, prices have more
than doubled in six months
- One factor in the crisis is the growing demand for corn used to make
ethanol.
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StandeyoCom |
Millennium Ark: Hot News
- It came to our attention today, that the world's largest producer
of storable foods, Mountain House, is currently out of stock
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HeraldNews |
Print Story - canada.com network
- the largest U. S. chicken company,
filed Monday for voluntary bankruptcy protection after struggling this past
year with high feed costs and low meat prices.
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MarketSkeptic |
Catastrophic Fall in 2009 Global Food
- Now, consider the same graphic with the countries experiencing droughts
highlighted.
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WashPost |
United Nations running out of food aid for Somalia
- The United Nations says it is running out of food for millions
of starving Somalis
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USAToday |
Leggo my Eggo! Kellogg fights waffle shortage
- The company's Atlanta plant was shut down for an undisclosed period
by a September storm that dumped historic amounts of rain in the area.
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