Grain prices

One way of normalizing grain prices to take into account inflation is to compute the ratio R of wheat prices to price of... 

There is curently a government-sponsored program to increase fermentation alcohol capacity to provide material for gasohol. The issues here are numerous and complex, and emotionally-colored evaluations are clearly evident even among those who profess to have purely scientific or technical interests. Barring a drastic rise in grain prices the program is likely to continue. 

The overall policy response to rising food prices should be multisectoral and should generally encompass improving grain price policies production, transport, and logistics safety nets to improve food security at the household level nutrition programs and management of the macroeconomic consequences of both the food price increase and the costs... 

Some organic crops such as cereals are cheaper to grow and grain prices are higher than for conventional crops but to be viable they cannot be grown too frequently in the rotation. Many field vegetables are much more expensive to... 

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