Sentence examples for surplus wheat from inspiring English sources

Moesia was a fairly prosperous province, since surplus wheat from the Black Sea area was always assured of a market in the Roman Empire.

Visit to Tomkins Cove to see the government-owned surplus wheat being stored in 75 government-owned surplus cargo ships anchored there.

Meanwhile, the Government has sent memos to military bases, shippers and others seeking storage space for the more than two billion bushels of surplus wheat now in stock, a record.

First, for 20 years, he used a food-aid programme called Public Law 480, under which America sold surplus wheat to third-world countries and then used the local-currency payments for humanitarian ventures.

Since America began donating surplus wheat, corn meal, vegetable oil and other farm commodities to the world's hungry six decades ago, the programme has been captured by an "iron triangle" of farm interests, shippers and voluntary organisations, with plenty of help from Congress.

It is the size of India's surplus wheat stocks or a lack thereof.

Inferior and surplus wheats and various milling by-products are used for livestock feeds.

For more than three decades, governments - particularly those of the US and the EU - have used the subsidy system to maintain a near-permanent surplus of wheat on world markets, sweeping away pasture systems and making it more profitable for farmers to confine their animals to sheds and feedlots.

TORONTO, March 1 — To work off a choking surplus of wheat, the Canadian Govern ment is borrowing an Ameri can‐style "soil bank" device— cash payments to farmers who do not plant with the hope that this avowedly temporary, one‐year program will not stretch out and mire Canada. in American‐style permanent, costly subsidies to agriculture.

The world grain harvest (wheat, maize, rice, and barley together ca. 90%) amounts to 2.2 Gt/a, and thus, about 1.1 Gt/a of surplus straw will be available, a significant energy equivalent of 0.4 Gtoe/a.

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