标题: BusinessWeek, Jan 9, 2012 [打印本页] 作者: choi 时间: 1-21-2012 11:49 标题: BusinessWeek, Jan 9, 2012 Shruti Singh and Jeff Wilson, Silos: A New Weapon for Farmers; Storage is helping farmers hold out for better prices. Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Jan 9, 2012 (cover date) http://www.businessweek.com/maga ... +-+global+economics
(" Farmers who lacked enough storage had to sell their autumn harvest immediately to the middlemen, who had the upper hand when it came to pricing")
Note:
(a) the "galvanize" in "galvanized steel" is a transitive verb that means:
"to coat (iron or steel) with zinc; especially : to immerse in molten zinc to produce a coating of zinc-iron alloy" www.m-w.com
(b) Bunge Limited http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunge_Limited
(a Bermudan food conglomerate with its headquarters in White Plains, New York; Founded in 1818 by Johann Peter Gotlieb Bunge in Amsterdam; public (NYSE))
(c) In US, bushel is a dry measure (not for fluid) equal to 35.239 liters or four pecks.