Since gold, grain and oil prices soared to previously unfathomable heights, everyone wants to know what's next.

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For example, readers would know that entering your name into the Reaping multiple times meant receiving extra grain and oil.

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China supplies North Korea with much of its grain and oil.

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Iran, likewise, has been forced into paying with gold for imported staples like grain and cooking oil.

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The sharp drop in world prices for oil and grain precipitated by the past few months' economic turmoil has literally, if probably temporarily, taken the energy out of last summer's vitriolic "food-versus-fuel " debate.

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Cook and stir until the rice is light golden and each grain is coated with oil.

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Trying to make sense of the oil, grain, and currency markets was mind-boggling.

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They rarely take physical delivery of raw materials and have no effect on the actual production and consumption of metal, grain or oil.

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In the days ahead, our train will pass a succession of monstrous eastbound freight services, groaning with raw materials: Albertan oil and yellow sulphur, British Columbian coal and lumber, but mostly grain from the prairies.

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