Sentence examples for grain shortage from inspiring English sources

With China's grain shortage growing fast, the nation may soon regard the Russian borderlands as a bread basket.

While acknowledging the regional devastation, however, government economists say they do not expect a national grain shortage because there are plentiful stocks.

Bad weather, a grain shortage and soaring costs for agricultural inputs (fuel, chemicals, equipment) were squeezing farmers; at the same time consumers were protesting the high costs of basic foods like sugar, cheese and, perhaps most sensitively, meat.

The laws became politically important in the late 18th century and the first half of the 19th century, during the grain shortage caused by Britain's growing population and by the blockades imposed in the Napoleonic Wars.

The major reasons: a grain shortage in many nations and Cargill's move into higher-value-added grain operations - making high-fructose corn syrup and crushing soybeans for animal feed.

He is not seeing a broad range of people or traveling widely inside the country; there is evidence of a grain shortage that will drive up food prices; and there have been a series of assassinations of senior officials and criminal leaders, none of them solved, that indicate instability.

Riots erupted over grain shortages and high prices.

Grain shortages sent food prices soaring, and memorably, OPEC put the squeeze on oil.

Arable farmers are doing well, thanks to grain shortages around the world, but dairy farmers are struggling because the price retailers will pay for milk is so low.

Droughts and in places excessive rain have produced sporadic grain shortages; some scientists link such extremes in weather to global warming and the rising use of fossil fuel.

Soaring food prices and global grain shortages are bringing new pressures on governments, food companies and consumers to relax their longstanding resistance to genetically engineered crops.