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  • “A cooling of several degrees would occur over large areas of North America and Eurasia, including most of the grain-growing regions,” Robock said.

    Matthew Yglesias » Don’t Tell Steve Levitt 2010

  • Uttar Pradesh is one of the top sugarcane producers, but deficient rains in parts of the province are unlikely to hurt India's total farm output, particularly as key grain-growing states in the north as well as oilseeds and pulses producing central and western regions are expecting good rains.

    India Monsoon Rains Seen 2% Above Normal Biman Mukherji 2011

  • In August and September, two separate grain-growing regions of the world were being impacted by extreme weather -- bitter cold and frost in Canada and searing heat, fires and drought in Russia.

    Sunita Narain: Davos Assessment on Climate Change Is Right and Wrong Sunita Narain 2011

  • China's consumer price index rose in January was up 4.9% from a year earlier as food prices increased 10.3% due to strengthening demand and a drought in key grain-growing regions.

    China Raises Gasoline, Diesel Prices Shen Hong 2011

  • In August and September, two separate grain-growing regions of the world were being impacted by extreme weather -- bitter cold and frost in Canada and searing heat, fires and drought in Russia.

    Sunita Narain: Davos Assessment on Climate Change Is Right and Wrong Sunita Narain 2011

  • In August and September, two separate grain-growing regions of the world were being impacted by extreme weather -- bitter cold and frost in Canada and searing heat, fires and drought in Russia.

    Sunita Narain: Davos Assessment on Climate Change Is Right and Wrong Sunita Narain 2011

  • Free trade was never the French cup of tea, but Bastiat was determined to import the success of Richard Cobden's crusade against the tariffs that protected the grain-growing British squirearchy a.k.a., the "corn laws".

    For Love of Laissez-Faire James Grant 2011

  • Russia had plenty of snow in most grain-growing areas, which provided good cover for winter grains, it said.

    Repeat of 2010 Drought Unlikely for Russia Crops Caroline Henshaw 2011

  • Therefore, they say, the parts of the world suited to grain-growing have developed the institutions that build equitably distributed human capital, and hence democracy.

    For Democracy, Bet on Peas Over Pineapples Matt Ridley 2011

  • Uttar Pradesh is one of the top sugarcane producers, but deficient rains in parts of the province are unlikely to hurt India's total farm output, particularly as key grain-growing states in the north as well as oilseeds and pulses producing central and western regions are expecting good rains.

    India Monsoon Rains Seen 2% Above Normal Biman Mukherji 2011

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