In another interview with NBC News, Mr. Obama said he would take the Russian proposal "with a grain of salt initially".
Negotiations in Cartagena, Colombia, collapsed last February when the United States and five other big grain-exporting nations rejected a proposal supported by the other countries that would have required exporters of genetically modified corn, soybeans and other crops to obtain permission in advance from the importing country.
The Airports Commission is considering whether Boris Johnson's proposal for the Isle of Grain should be on its shortlist of airport expansion options.
"So to put out this proposal goes against my own grain.
In an interview, Admiral Clark said he regularly encouraged Mr. Sestak to produce proposals that went against the grain of formal plans submitted by other officers — and, as often as not, he said, "he did".
The proposal also cuts strongly against the grain of the socialist economic dogma that dominated Iraq for decades.
GRAIN, an advocacy group, says it has seen proposals that would allow Saudi business groups to take control of 70% of the rice-growing area of Senegal.It is not just the size of land deals that remains uncertain.
Jeffrey Adkisson, executive vice president of the Grain & Feed Association of Illinois, said the debate over proposals to stop the Asian carp had prompted less alarm among the group's members than he had expected.
BRUSSELS — The European Union is considering allowing a trace amount of unapproved genetically modified material in imports of animal feed but not human food, according to draft proposals that the United States and other big grain exporters called unworkable.
For China, corn prices are just too high, so it has canned a proposal to import millions of tonnes of the grain in 2011, two industry sources with knowledge of the plan said on Thursday.
