mugwump
10-14-2006, 09:06
Maybe China doesn't have us over a barrel after all. Home-grown rice is insufficient to feed their 1.3Bn and they've come to depend on imports of wheat and corn for subsistence...Grain stockpiles at lowest for 25 years (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0c021878-5a16-11db-8f16-0000779e2340.html)
The world’s stockpiles of wheat are at their lowest level in more than a quarter century, according to the US Department of Agriculture, which on Thursday slashed its forecasts for global wheat and corn production.
The world’s stockpiles of wheat are at their lowest level in more than a quarter century, according to the US Department of Agriculture, which on Thursday slashed its forecasts for global wheat and corn production.