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BusinessWeek, Jan 9, 2012

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发表于 1-21-2012 11:49:44 | 只看该作者 回帖奖励 |倒序浏览 |阅读模式
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.
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