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...Mr Stone currently runs Cargill’s animal nutrition business, which makes feed for livestock, poultry and fish....
...One area of weakness for Berkshire proved to be its McLane wholesale food distribution unit, which it blamed on tough competition. It said sales declined in the period after it lost customers....
...However, Mr Gelb noted profits from non-insurance operations such as McLane, a grocery delivery business, and a cluster of manufacturing companies, were a little weaker than he had expected....
...Livestock numbers, he says, have already dropped by half....
...Basic services such as running water, sewage and waste disposal are near absent, while schools, medical centres, community space and public transport are oversubscribed....
...of corn ethanol to be used in transport this year....
...Hirst might have strayed across the livestock lines by drawing on William Holman Hunt’s “Scapegoat” (1854-1856) but he certainly knows the whole host of strayed lamb parable paintings – whether Hunt’s “The...
...Prices for corn, which is used as feed for livestock as well as for human food, have slid 16 per cent since the start of the year....
...Worried about the pressure corn prices were putting on livestock producers in his state, he tried to persuade the administration of President George W....
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