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...“My grandfather, with his brothers, used to own an elevator, and people would come and unload grain, and they would buy fertiliser, seeds and all those things....
...The property was taken over by Ian Schrager, co-founder of Studio 54 in New York; the little TV monitors in every elevator confirmed the sense that it was a place to be seen, as much as to see....
...The State Grain Operator began advertising on local social media channels and invited farmers to “co-operate” by selling grain via drop-off points at a set price....
...Vivahouse developed composite panels, made near Liverpool, which fit into a service elevator and can then be clicked together. She says this is part of the company’s “secret sauce”....
...They feel they are rising in the “social elevator”, as the French call it, whereas most working-class people say in polls that they live worse than their parents....
...For US farmers it is a welcome change from year ago, when the effects of a strong dollar and ample supplies elsewhere trapped some crops inside the country....
...After months of co-ordinating truck arrivals, mobile elevators and storage for the grains brought to port, Mr Capey is now waiting for the arrival of the UK’s new barley and wheat harvest....
...The Legacy Farmers Co-operative in northwestern Ohio this week offered as much as 15 cents over the price of Chicago’s CBOT corn futures, according to its website....
...For a more formal setting, make a reservation on the balcony under white awnings. scandinavia.ru LavkaLavka This restaurant belongs to a farmers’ co-operative, and offers fresh local ingredients, still...
...This week the elevator was offering a cash price of $6.63 a bushel – $1.20 more than September corn futures in Chicago. The farmers’ wager may pay off....
...“Now this region is known as the grain elevator of the state of São Paulo.”...
...She signed a contract to deliver 1,000 tonnes of durum wheat in October from her family farm in south-central Saskatchewan to a nearby elevator owned by Viterra, a multinational grain trader based in Calgary...
...The USDA’s quarterly grain stocks reports, based on surveys of farmers and grain elevator operators, have tended to trigger strong price moves....
...Many farmers are already cashing in. Between December and March the amount of corn stored on farms plunged 46 per cent to 3.4bn bushels, as corn was sold to grain elevators and ethanol plants....
...In 1878, a letter appeared in a newspaper attacking Chicago’s grain traders as “brotherhood banditti” who robbed farmers of their livelihoods with their bets....
...Bunge and Cargill, in particular, have invested heavily in the Black Sea region, building elevators and export terminals. As the old agriculture adage says, one farmer’s loss is another’s gain....
...“It was a dark moment,” says Christopher Langholz, president of Cargill AgHorizons, the trading unit that dates back to the company’s first grain elevator in 1865....
...Tata wanted to build the super-cheap Nano but allegedly failed to compensate farmers for acquiring the land it needed – a charge Tata categorically denies....
...But, as Timothy Noah’s recent series for the online magazine Slate on the “Great Divergence” points out, that class elevator began stalling decades ago....
...More than 5m small farmers in China, India and South Africa now grow GM cotton and the reduced need to use pesticides has greatly increased their income and improved their health....
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