The green revolution, which spread enabling technologies of high-yield agriculture across the planet, resulted in doubling of grain production.
Global grain production outpaced population growth, and Mr Borlaug won the Nobel peace prize in 1970 for saving hundreds of millions of lives.
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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"If we only rely on domestic resources to develop the animal-husbandry industry, China's grain production will face challenges, and there will be more serious environmental pollution problems, " Mr. Li said.
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The combination of plentiful monsoon rains and high minimum purchase prices for wheat and rice means the country is forecasting an all-time-high grain production of 250.42 million tons in the crop year ending June 30.
While Chinese officials boast the country has met its grain production quotas for six years straight, consumption is rising at about 5 billion kilos a year and production was close to consumption last year at 530 billion kilos.
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As a result of price movements, movements in prices in the futures markets, we have a move from inefficient methods of using grain like the production of bacon to more efficient methods of use.
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Compounding this imbalance is the fact that continuing urbanization and property development have taken large amounts of farmland out of production, threatening grain supply and agricultural development.
In April, Texas Governor Rick Perry asked the EPA to reduce the total number of gallons of ethanol required to be blended into gasoline sold in the United States until 2010, arguing that biofuels production had increased the price of grain by diverting a huge share of the nation's corn harvest to ethanol production.
Dr Feng counters fears about a grain embargo, by pointing out that any land used in other food production could fairly quickly be re-converted to grain in an emergency.
They rarely take physical delivery of raw materials and have no effect on the actual production and consumption of metal, grain or oil.
West Fertilizer is owned by Donald Adair, a fixture in the West, Tx. community who also owns Adair Grain and Adair Farms, which comprises crop production and cattle feed lots.
It starts with the plant breeders who develop new crop varieties and extends through seed production, farmers who cultivate the crops, grain handlers, transporters and processors, and finally to marketers and retailers.
Prices for commodities as diverse as gold and grain likewise will have to rise because they are now barely high enough to cover production costs.
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"Given that global and U.S. grain inventories remain very tight, grain prices will continue to reflect growing conditions and yield potential for both U.S. and global crop production, " Agrium said, citing a June report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which anticipates global grain and oilseed stockpiles to scrape 35-year lows through 2009.
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