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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
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NEWS ABOUT: rice prices

rice prices stories: 6 news summaries

US Predicts Bumper Crops
Will Ease Food Crisis

Record-breaking grain harvests worldwide expected to bring prices back down

May 10, 08 9:11 AM CDT
(Newser) - Farmers worldwide will reap record-breaking harvests of wheat and rice this year, the US projects, and the news is expected to ease some of the worldwide concern about food prices. The USDA says good weather will bring bumper crops that will replenish depleted stocks, Reuters reports. Analysts warned, however, that... More »

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agriculture • farming • USDA • wheat • crops • wheat prices • food security • global food market • food supply • rice prices

Thailand Plans OPEC-Style
'Rice Cartel'

PM wants to control market with neighbors, including Burma

May 1, 08 9:54 AM CDT
(Newser) - The prime minister of Thailand is exploring the idea of setting up a rice price-fixing cartel with four other governments in southeast Asia, including the military dictatorship of Burma. The Bangkok Post reports that Samak Sundaravej wants to establish an OPEC-style collective of producers that will influence the market for... More »

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Thailand • rice • Myanmar • Burma • food prices • Samak Sundaravej • rice prices • rice cartel

 Rice Is the New Oil 

Rising food prices threaten a more serious global crisis

Apr 27, 08 3:31 PM CDT
(Newser) - Even as the burgeoning price of oil slaps consumers at the pump, a darker global market crisis looms as rising commodities prices compound the pressures of poverty worldwide. The UN has said that spiking food prices have started "a silent tsunami threatening to plunge more than 100 million people... More »

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China • food • United Nations • India • hunger • poverty • food prices • speculation • rice prices • hunger riots

Sam's Club Joins Costco
in Limiting Rice Purchases

Warehouse chains react to rising prices, apparent hoarding

Apr 23, 08 8:25 PM CDT
(Newser) - Sam's Club joined Costco today in limiting how much rice customers can buy, Bloomberg reports. The restrictions by the nation's largest warehouse retail chains come with the price of rice at record highs around the world, which has spurred some to begin hoarding, Bloomberg notes. Sam's Club customers can buy... More »

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Costco • Sam's Club • food prices • Wal-Mart • flour • rice prices

Costco Sees High Demand
for Basics Rice, Flour

CEO attributes run to customer uncertainty over food supplies

Apr 22, 08 9:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - Costco is seeing unusually high demand for basics such as rice and flour, Reuters reports, a development the warehouse giant attributes to customer uncertainty over global food shortages. The company, which sells to individual shoppers as well as restaurants, has put limits in place for those items at some stores.... More »

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Costco • food prices • food supply • flour • rice prices

 Crisis Looms as Rice Prices Soar

Countries ban exports, chastise hoarders

Apr 6, 08 2:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rice feeds half the world's population, but this year there isn't enough to go around and prices have risen by 50% over the last two weeks alone. Population growth is outpacing production, and stocks are at a 30-year low after droughts decimated harvests in China and Australia. Countries are banning... More »

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climate change • India • drought • McDonald's • Asia • exports • rice • Bangladesh • consumer prices • wheat prices • food riots • rice prices • export ban

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