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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 Reaper
10-14-2006, 09:14
I saw that.

I thought that it might have implications for some of our global competitors.

How you gonna keep 'em down on the farm, after they've seen Peking?

A very large part of this is due to crop failures in Australia and to a lesser degree by diversion of US corn into the ethanol production system.

Anywhere there is population pressure and inadequate domestic food production, our leverage has just increased. Unfortunately, I fear that we are not smart enough politically to take advantage of it.

TR

longrange1947
10-14-2006, 11:12
Unfortunately it is also a reason for expansion.

Huey14
10-14-2006, 11:54
Farmers are already moving against The Man over there. This won't help.




Shit on the guys who got you into power and reap the consequences.