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Gilles Tran wrote:
> Actually, one of the reasons why the price of cheese went up is due to
> biofuels. A few countries (including the US) have been converting food
> maize and soybeans crops to biofuel maize for a few years now, due to
> attractive fuel prices: the US now uses more of its maize crop for
> biofuel than it sells abroad. Last year, with a few other factors, this
> cascaded into a world shortage of food/feed grains. The price of cereals
> doubled between May and September 2007, and drove up the price of feeds,
> and then of milk and cheese.
...all of which leaves me wondering: How come Gilles knows so much about
farming? ;-)
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