Prices Soaring, Wheat Becomes Unstable Staple
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With demand soaring abroad and droughts crimping supply, the worldâs wheat stockpiles have fallen to their lowest level in 30 years.
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Producer price inflation in Germany, which has been surging recently as a result of runaway energy and steel prices, slowed somewhat last month as oil prices came off the boil, according to the federal statistics office Destatis.
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Soaring energy costs and a surge in food prices contributed to a 1.7 percent rise in United States producer prices in October, the Labor Department reported today, the biggest gain in almost 15 years.
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Consumers are set to face a jump in meat prices as farmers pass on the cost of surging feed prices, a report warns.
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U.S. consumers are facing higher prices for appliances with retailers raising prices this month to offset rising raw material costs.
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Prices for arabica coffee rallied 14  percent on Monday chased higher by commodity funds as concerns  about a decline in the number of bags in U.S. warehouses were  reinforced by an earthquake in major grower Colombia.
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Hurricane Frances is pushing up commodity prices and weighing on insurance company stocks as it heads for the Florida coast. Orange juice prices hit nine-month highs on the New York Board of Trade on Thursday
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Wheat is steadily being replaced by corn as the crop of choice for American farmers.
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Inflation on our meals is steeper than you may realize.
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Hurricane Frances sends commodity prices soaring and depresses insurance stocks as it heads for the Florida coast.
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Rising demand, a falling dollar and rosy economic predictions have stoked the price of commodities in the last few years. But times are changing.
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FARMERS recovering from the drought of 2002-03 have received some good news and bad: the value of crop and livestock exports is forecast to rise but the price of wool is set to fall.
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Rising food costs helped push prices up for a second straight month, more than offsetting a moderation in energy price increases as inflation showed signs of gaining steam.
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People across South Asia struggle to cope with severe shortages of affordable wheat and rice.
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By Shannon Tompkins, Houston Chronicle  Feb. 22--The price paid to farmers for a bushel of corn jumped more than a third over the past year, with bushel prices on commodity markets going from a little over $2 to more than $4.
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Producer prices, or the cost of goods at the factory gate, surged by the highest rate in January for 16 years, according to official data published Monday.
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Prices spiked 4.1 percent last year, the highest increase in 17 years.