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We stayed two days in Basel, but it was a bit boring – you’re on the Rhine, that’s nice, but there was n’t tonnes to do, but the train from Strasbourg had involved a change there, so we ’d thought we may as well get off. – Rick Turner	Found on CNN 1 year ago
I'm disappointed by the belligerence of politicians, in some respects there has not been a lot of change. In some respects there has been tonnes. – Jean Hegarty	Found on CNN 2 years ago
One estimate put Russia’s winter wheat planting down about 1% on 2021. Still, with normal yields, that would imply a 5.5 million tonnes lift in Russia’s wheat crop in season 2022. – Tobin Gorey	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
The market is still working out the availability of supply for world wheat. The Australian crop keeps getting bigger, australia’s crop is about 65% to 70% harvested, we’re getting close to knowing what the exact crop is. We think it’s over 38 million tonnes. – Ole Houe	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
It will be 18 tonnes of equipment to fulfill their mission : save lives. – Luis Abinader	Found on CNN 3 years ago
The aim is to buy between 2-4 tonnes of gold annually, in such a way that this can be refined and become monetary gold, gold has an erratic, volatile fluctuation, but it is a global security asset. – Marcelo Montenegro	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
In 2020 we also seized more than 500 tonnes of cocaine hydrochloride, another objective we are keeping for 2021. The fight against drugs will continue to be a key focus and will continue to combine all the available tools. – President Ivan Duque	Found on Reuters 3 years ago
Ships cannot leave because they do not have the adequate safety margin, a ship usually carries about 50,000 tonnes of grain. You are looking at about 11,000 tonnes less per boat. – Guillermo Wade	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
So far, the pace that we are tracking looks like we are not going to exceed these 2 million tonnes. – Taras Vysotskiy	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
If the pace of exports becomes such that we are exporting 2 million tonnes in April, so, as we agreed (with traders) and warned - we will have to implement the paragraph of the memorandum to stop exports, so far, the pace that we are tracking looks like we are not going to exceed these 2 million tonnes. – Taras Vysotskiy	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
The Australian wheat crop is shrinking at the moment as more and more grain is cut for hay, we are looking at a crop of around 19 million tonnes at the moment and it could get lower unless we get rain over the next two-three weeks. – Ole Houe	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
This is the company's phase-one investment for a total of 2.5 million tonnes per year ethylene production facilities that will process fully U.S. ethane. – Ding Liping	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
In a month we've collected just 650 tonnes, if we don't have enough material, our business is at a loss because we must pay for workers, electricians and water. – Lucy Luo Minghui	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
The forced stoppage of all the mines at Talcher has resulted in a cumulative loss of 842,000 tonnes of coal production. – Dikken Mehra	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Somebody who was buying three tonnes or so earlier is now buying only one tonne. – Jojo George	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
There is still hope that this year's crop may be slightly bigger than last year's 2.3 million tonnes and reach about 2.4 million tonnes, it should be noted that winterkill this year was minimal, which gives the crop some advantage. – Wojtek Sabaranski of analysts	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
On the environmental level, Senegal has never had a project on this scale, this farm will avoid ... 300,000 tonnes of carbon emissions. – Massaer Cisse	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
It is clearly impossible that the pangolin species can withstand such high rates of poaching, trafficking and trade. Eight tonnes is outrageous. – Alex Hofford	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Poland's total rapeseed crop may not be higher than 2.0 to 2.1 million tonnes, down 27 percent from 2017. – Wojtek Sabaranski of analysts	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Large smelting capacity for copper, zinc and lead is located in the target area and will need to either upgrade to meet new emission norms or face production curbs, cost pressure will likely increase. Our analysis on copper smelters shows up to 2.6 million tonnes a year capacity could be affected. – Wood Mackenzie	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
If the drought continues through June 2018, we will be forced to slash this forecast back to 10.5-10.7 million tonnes. – Wojtek Sabaranski of analysts	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
All those tonnes of carbon-rich waste material that were going into the landfill are now being released into the sky. Why are we allowing this free access to 'skyfill'? we should separate and store plastic in a well-controlled landfill as a future mine. – Keith Freegard	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
People are talking about a soy crop of 37 or 38 million tonnes nationwide, and that the rains could reduce that by 1 to 1.5 million tonnes. – Gustavo Lopez	Found on Reuters 6 years ago
Korean importers have told me that, in the present price constellation, they will switch to more feed wheat tenders from corn in coming weeks, in South Korea alone, this could result in about 150,000 tonnes a month of corn imports being switched to feed wheat. – Another German trader	Found on Reuters 8 years ago

We stayed two days in Basel, but it was a bit boring – you’re on the Rhine, that’s nice, but there was n’t tonnes to do, but the train from Strasbourg had involved a change there, so we ’d thought we may as well get off.

– Rick Turner

Found on CNN
1 year ago

I'm disappointed by the belligerence of politicians, in some respects there has not been a lot of change. In some respects there has been tonnes.

– Jean Hegarty

Found on CNN
2 years ago

One estimate put Russia’s winter wheat planting down about 1% on 2021. Still, with normal yields, that would imply a 5.5 million tonnes lift in Russia’s wheat crop in season 2022.

– Tobin Gorey

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

The market is still working out the availability of supply for world wheat. The Australian crop keeps getting bigger, australia’s crop is about 65% to 70% harvested, we’re getting close to knowing what the exact crop is. We think it’s over 38 million tonnes.

– Ole Houe

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

It will be 18 tonnes of equipment to fulfill their mission : save lives.

– Luis Abinader

Found on CNN
3 years ago

The aim is to buy between 2-4 tonnes of gold annually, in such a way that this can be refined and become monetary gold, gold has an erratic, volatile fluctuation, but it is a global security asset.

– Marcelo Montenegro

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

In 2020 we also seized more than 500 tonnes of cocaine hydrochloride, another objective we are keeping for 2021. The fight against drugs will continue to be a key focus and will continue to combine all the available tools.

– President Ivan Duque

Found on Reuters
3 years ago

Ships cannot leave because they do not have the adequate safety margin, a ship usually carries about 50,000 tonnes of grain. You are looking at about 11,000 tonnes less per boat.

– Guillermo Wade

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

So far, the pace that we are tracking looks like we are not going to exceed these 2 million tonnes.

– Taras Vysotskiy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

If the pace of exports becomes such that we are exporting 2 million tonnes in April, so, as we agreed (with traders) and warned - we will have to implement the paragraph of the memorandum to stop exports, so far, the pace that we are tracking looks like we are not going to exceed these 2 million tonnes.

– Taras Vysotskiy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

The Australian wheat crop is shrinking at the moment as more and more grain is cut for hay, we are looking at a crop of around 19 million tonnes at the moment and it could get lower unless we get rain over the next two-three weeks.

– Ole Houe

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

This is the company's phase-one investment for a total of 2.5 million tonnes per year ethylene production facilities that will process fully U.S. ethane.

– Ding Liping

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

In a month we've collected just 650 tonnes, if we don't have enough material, our business is at a loss because we must pay for workers, electricians and water.

– Lucy Luo Minghui

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

The forced stoppage of all the mines at Talcher has resulted in a cumulative loss of 842,000 tonnes of coal production.

– Dikken Mehra

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Somebody who was buying three tonnes or so earlier is now buying only one tonne.

– Jojo George

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

There is still hope that this year's crop may be slightly bigger than last year's 2.3 million tonnes and reach about 2.4 million tonnes, it should be noted that winterkill this year was minimal, which gives the crop some advantage.

– Wojtek Sabaranski of analysts

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

On the environmental level, Senegal has never had a project on this scale, this farm will avoid ... 300,000 tonnes of carbon emissions.

– Massaer Cisse

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

It is clearly impossible that the pangolin species can withstand such high rates of poaching, trafficking and trade. Eight tonnes is outrageous.

– Alex Hofford

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Poland's total rapeseed crop may not be higher than 2.0 to 2.1 million tonnes, down 27 percent from 2017.

– Wojtek Sabaranski of analysts

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Large smelting capacity for copper, zinc and lead is located in the target area and will need to either upgrade to meet new emission norms or face production curbs, cost pressure will likely increase. Our analysis on copper smelters shows up to 2.6 million tonnes a year capacity could be affected.

– Wood Mackenzie

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

If the drought continues through June 2018, we will be forced to slash this forecast back to 10.5-10.7 million tonnes.

– Wojtek Sabaranski of analysts

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

All those tonnes of carbon-rich waste material that were going into the landfill are now being released into the sky. Why are we allowing this free access to 'skyfill'? we should separate and store plastic in a well-controlled landfill as a future mine.

– Keith Freegard

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

People are talking about a soy crop of 37 or 38 million tonnes nationwide, and that the rains could reduce that by 1 to 1.5 million tonnes.

– Gustavo Lopez

Found on Reuters
6 years ago

Korean importers have told me that, in the present price constellation, they will switch to more feed wheat tenders from corn in coming weeks, in South Korea alone, this could result in about 150,000 tonnes a month of corn imports being switched to feed wheat.

– Another German trader

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

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