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	<title>David McKee</title>
	<link>http://www.davidmckee.org</link>
	<description>grain industry consultant</description>
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		<title>Focus on the Netherlands</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PDF version.
Compound feed production, on a per capita basis, ranks among the highest in the world.
Two things distinguish the Netherlands demographically. It is the most densely populated country in Europe (among those with over 500,000 inhabitants), and somewhat counter-intuitively for such a crowded land, its people are the tallest in the world. From these facts [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmckee.org/2007/05/01/focus-on-the-netherlands/</link>
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		<title>Under attack</title>
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The Canadian Wheat Board is in an intense battle to maintain its wheat and barley trading monopoly.
The Canadian prairie provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba have been the source of 15% of all wheat, 55% of durum wheat and 10% of barley in world trade during the last 10 years. A single organization, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmckee.org/2007/04/01/under-attack/</link>
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		<title>Morocco</title>
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North African nation is experiencing rapid growth in its feed and meat industries.
An hour’s drive inland from the rapidly growing metropolis of Agadir, Morocco, a major agricultural cooperative, Copag, has begun a pilot program for confined feeding of cattle. The goal is to increase the quality and volume of local beef production, which still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmckee.org/2007/04/01/morocco/</link>
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		<title>Focus on United Kingdom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[PDF version.
Potential of grain-based biofuels production could change agricultural dynamics in the U.K.
The United Kingdom (U.K.) is extraordinarily productive when it comes to one grain crop — wheat. A gentle, moist, maritime climate allows yields of seven to eight tonnes per hectare (ha) for a crop of 15 million tonnes, accounting for roughly 75% of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmckee.org/2007/03/01/united-kingdom/</link>
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		<title>AWB awaits its fate</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Australian wheat exporter, reeling from a recent scandal, will likely lose its single desk monopoly.
For more than 70 years, the Australian Wheat Board, more commonly known as AWB Limited, has, for the most part, been the sole exporter of Australian wheat. That’s significant since exports can be up to 14 million tonnes out of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmckee.org/2007/03/01/awb-awaits-its-fate/</link>
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		<title>Focus on Kazakhstan</title>
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The central Asian nation has become one of the world’s biggest wheat and flour exporters despite high transportation costs to international markets.
For centuries, Kazakh herdsmen grazed their animals in the summer on the sub-Siberian grasslands of northern central Asia and wintered them far to the south and east in the more temperate shadow of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmckee.org/2007/02/01/focus-on-kazakhstan/</link>
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		<title>Focus on South Korea</title>
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Nation has become one of the world’s most important grain importers, bringing in more than 12.5 million tonnes per year.
Perhaps no country has industrialized and modernized as rapidly as South Korea did in the second half of the 20th century. In 1960, per capita GDP was U.S.$200, but today South Korea has the world’s [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmckee.org/2007/01/01/focus-on-south-korea/</link>
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		<title>Focus on Israel</title>
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Surge in imported wheat from Black Sea region in recent years has made life complicated for Israeli bakers.
In the Book of Deuteronomy, God promises to lead the Israelites to &#8220;a land with wheat and barley, vines and fig trees…a land where bread will not be scarce and you will lack nothing.&#8221;
Though almost all the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmckee.org/2006/12/18/focus-on-israel/</link>
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		<title>Focus on Nigeria</title>
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Country has gone from banning wheat imports to becoming one of the world’s biggest wheat importers.
Nigeria is by far Africa’s most populous country and is also a major oil exporter. In the grain trade, it now occupies a special place as well, as the largest market for the world’s largest wheat exporter.
In 2006-07, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmckee.org/2006/11/13/focus-on-nigeria/</link>
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		<title>Czech Republic</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Agrofert Holding and Agropol Group play a dominant role in the country’s domestically dominated grain and grain processing industries.
Agrofert Holding and Agropol Group are not widely known outside the Czech Republic, but it is the commanding position of these two corporations that helps define the Czech agriculture and grain processing industries. In the 15 years [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.davidmckee.org/2006/10/18/czech-republic/</link>
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