Finance & economics | Amber wave

Demand for American grain is surging

China’s keen appetite is part of the explanation

|NEW YORK

THE HARVEST rush in America’s heartland is subsiding. More than 90% of the country’s corn and soyabeans had been picked by November 8th. Crops moved from cart to trailer to grain elevator. Now a different kind of frenzy is taking hold.

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