High interest rates and taxes and a strong real have held back growth, especially in the more prosperous south and the grain-growing centre-west.

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Desert areas are expanding by 3, 000 square miles each year and farmers are being paid to plant trees to halt this advance, thus further reducing the grain-growing area.

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Chile has not undergone the job-destroying switch from traditional farming to the highly mechanised prairie grain-growing that is typical of the United States or, more recently, parts of Europe.

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Some brands are being transplanted into adjacent markets: the new Hovis Breakfast Bake is a whole-grain biscuit that Premier hopes will take some of the growing market for on-the-go breakfasts.

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Mike Norman, editor of the Economic Contrarian Update, usually holds against-the-grain opinions, although his latest comments seem to echo a growing consensus: the bull market for homebuilders is over.

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Filburn, upheld a Roosevelt-era law limiting grain production to prop up prices even when the farmer in question was growing grain entirely for his own consumption.

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