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  2. Sioux City Grain Exchange - Wikipedia

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    The Sioux City Grain Exchange (SCGX) was a cash commodity market in Sioux City, Iowa that primarily traded corn, wheat, oat, and soybean. It was established in 1907 as the Sioux City Board of Trade, named the "fastest growing grain market in the world" in 1929, [1] and among the largest exchanges in the world by the 1970s; transacting over 100 million bushels annually (valued at $1 billion as ...

  3. List of largest producing countries of agricultural commodities

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    Cereal First Second Third Barley Russia Australia France Buckwheat Russia China Ukraine Canary seed Canada Thailand Argentina Fonio Guinea Nigeria Mali Corn United States

  4. Minneapolis Grain Exchange - Wikipedia

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    The Minneapolis Grain Exchange (MGEX) is a commodities and futures exchange of grain products. It was formed in 1881 in Minneapolis , Minnesota , United States as a regional cash marketplace to promote fair trade and to prevent trade abuses in wheat , oats and corn .

  5. List of most valuable crops and livestock products - Wikipedia

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    Rice was the most valuable agricultural crop in the world in 2016. It was third to sugarcane and maize (corn) in quantity produced. This is a rice field in Cambodia.

  6. AWB oil-for-wheat scandal - Wikipedia

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    AWB Limited is a major grain marketing organisation based in Australia. For much of the 20th and early 21st century, it was an Australian Government entity operating a single desk regime over Australian wheat, meaning it had the sole ability to export Australian wheat, which it paid a single, fixed price for. In the mid-2000s, it was found to ...

  7. Cash crop - Wikipedia

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    A cash crop, also called profit crop, is an agricultural crop which is grown to sell for profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm . The term is used to differentiate a marketed crop from a staple crop ("subsistence crop") in subsistence agriculture , which is one fed to the producer's own livestock or grown as food for ...

  8. Skyland, Nevada - Wikipedia

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    Skyland is located on the east shore of Lake Tahoe in far western Nevada. U.S. Route 50 is the main road through the CDP, leading south 5 miles (8 km) to the California state line and northeast 20 miles (32 km) to Carson City. Lakeridge is immediately to the north, and Zephyr Cove borders Skyland to the south.

  9. Grain yield monitor - Wikipedia

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    The combine grain yield monitor is a device coupled with other sensors to calculate and record the crop yield or grain yield as a modern-day combine harvester operates. Yield monitors are a part of the precision agriculture products available to producers today that provide producers with the tools to reduce costs, increase yields, and increase efficiency.