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Farmers struggle to keep up with world food demand

iht.com — Wheat prices have doubled in the past six months. Corn is on a tear. Barley, sunflower seeds, canola and soybeans are up sharply. But prices that have renewed Miller's faith in farming are causing pain far and wide. A tailor in Lagos named Abel Ojuku said recently that he had been forced to cut back on the bread that he and his family love.

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  • inactive, on 03/10/2008, -1/+2OF COURSE food prices are up. http://www.scragged.com/articles/biofuels-the-non- ... explains that 15% of the American corn corp is being used to replace 2% of our gasoline use. This sort of stupidity is possible only with government help.

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