grain
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Including receipts from petroleum, oilseed and grain merchants, wholesale sales for August fell 1% from the month before, while inventories on the same basis nudged up 0.2%.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 15, 2026
The ranch is nestled in a corner of Nebraska that's home to rolling green hills under sweeping Midwestern skies, the landscape dotted with grain silos and feedlots alongside fields and fields of bovines.
From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026
The president of the American Farm Bureau Federation says “every cent per gallon matters” when you run a fleet of grain trucks.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 7, 2026
Romania reported on Monday that a grain ship had caught fire and sank in the Black Sea, with one crew member killed and one missing.
From Barron's ● Oct. 6, 2026
Granted, I wouldn’t be looking out at a quilt of sprouting grain as I survey my flax and wheat fields had my neighbors not intervened.
From "Hattie Big Sky" by Kirby Larson
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Wheat grains shrivelled instead of fattening, and the yield plummeted.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
The “slop bowl” became internet shorthand for the familiar fast-casual mash-up — grains, greens, globally inspired protein, sauce, perhaps an avocado surcharge — assembled with the logic of a cafeteria line and an over-$10 price.
From Salon ● Oct. 3, 2026
Its grains are fractured, and silica fills spaces between them.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026
China's import list includes more than 1,600 categories of American goods, including meats -- beef, pork, poultry and seafood -- grains, dairy, whiskey, coal and timber.
From Barron's ● Sep. 28, 2026
They’d learned that there were trillions and trillions of stars in the universe, more stars than grains of sand on every beach and desert on earth.
From "I Survived Hurricane Katrina, 2005" by Lauren Tarshis
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