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"AAM Concerned with CCC Inventories"


“According to the May 1, 2008 CCC inventory report there are o­nly 24.1 million bushels of wheat in inventory, so after this sale there will be o­nly 2.7 million bushels of wheat left the entire CCC inventory,” warned Matlack. “Our concern is not that we are using the remainder of our strategic grain reserves for humanitarian relief. AAM fully supports the action and all humanitarian food relief. Our concern is that the U.S. has nothing else in our emergency food pantry. There is no cheese, no butter, no dry milk powder, no grains or anything else left in reserve. The o­nly thing left in the entire CCC inventory will be 2.7 million bushels of wheat which is about enough wheat to make ½ of a loaf of bread for each of the 300 million people in America."

http://www.tristateobserver.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=10121

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Not to be alarmist, but...I was already growing more because of the high prices at the store. It looks like there may be real shortages, however, in the rest of the world if not here. The world needs a bumper crop of the staples this year - corn, wheat and rice, but the projections don't look good so far.