Sentence examples for maize stock from inspiring English sources

But when I ask him how he will feed his family for the five months between the end of his small maize stock and the next harvest, he smiles broadly and shrugs.When I arrived at the teacher's dilapidated house, I was offered tea.

Maize stocks are forecast to grow by 20% by autumn 2001; soyabean stocks will rise by 70%.

Its maize stocks amount to 40% of its annual consumption, its wheat stocks to 50%.

The forecast for maize stocks has also been reduced since June, by 37%, and yields will be the lowest since 2003.

America's Department of Agriculture reckons the country's wheat stocks will fall to a 60-year low this year and that world maize stocks will be the smallest since 1984.

The International Grains Council warned that the world's maize stocks were on course to hit a nine-year low, with Russia's wheat crop falling to levels last seen during the major drought of 2010.

Other factors discussed – rising demand for food from China and India, back-to-back droughts in Australia – were, the report said, marginal: "Without the increase in biofuels, global wheat and maize stocks would not have declined appreciably and price increases due to other factors would have been moderate.

But since the Agriculture Department deemed that maize stocks are bigger than expected and that farmers are intending to plant the biggest acreage since 1936, prices have plunged.In this section Output, prices and jobs Trade, exchange rates, budget balances and interest rates The Economist commodity-price index Commodity prices Markets Reprints.

Additionally, the leaf mid-rib pigmentation is also present in some P1-wr plants that have been crossed with maize stocks carrying Ufo1.

Reduced fumonisin exposure during the second visit could be explained by reduced maize stocks in the subsistence farming families at 6 months from harvest, which is associated with reduced maize intake and increased reliance on other types of seasonally available local foods.

Because none of the sequences required for b1 paramutation are included in the transgene (reviewed by Chandler 2010), and all of the described experiments used maize stocks that did not carry b1 alleles that participate in paramutation, the transcriptional silencing of this transgene is not directly related to b1 paramutation.