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	Grain Coast - Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Grain exports from Canada's West Coast to be halted by weekend.
		Grain Exports From Canada's West Coast Threatened By Labor Dispute.
		CN says west coast grain unloads above target during November.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-GrainCoa.html (400 words)

	Coast - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The coast is defined as the part of the land adjoining or near the ocean.
		The coast and its adjacent areas on and off shore is an important part of a local ecosystem as the mixture of fresh water and salt water in estuaries provides many nutrients for marine life.
		Coasts are popular destinations because of recreational activities such as swimming, fishing, surfing, boating, and sun bathing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Coast (1040 words)

	GUINEA - LoveToKnow Article on GUINEA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In the widest acceptation of the term, the Guinea coast may be said to extend from 13 N. to 16 S., from the neighborhood of the Gambia to Cape Negro.
		Southern or Lower Guinea comprises the coasts of Gabun and Loango (known also as French Congo) and the Portuguese possessions on the south-west coast, and Northern or Upper Guinea stretches fiom the riverCasamancetoandinclusive of the Niger delta, Cameroon occupying a middle position.
		The coast is generally so low as to be visible to navigators only within a very short distance, the mangrove trees being their only sailing marks.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /G/GU/GUINEA.htm (1843 words)

	Coast (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		A coast is that part of an island or continent that borders an ocean, gulf, sea, or large lake.
		In geology and geography, the coast extends inland from the shoreline.
		The coast, especially for isolated nations such as the United Kingdom or the United States is often a crucial defensive frontier, both for warding off armies but also smugglers and illegal migrants.
	www.yotor.com /wiki/en/co/Coast.htm (388 words)

	Feeding Barley to Cattle
		Morgan and Campling (78) suggested that whole grain oats were better utilized because more whole oats than whole barley could be transported to the mouth during regurgitation due to the lower specific gravity of oats and thus their positioning within the rumen.
		The temperature of the grain is increased by 1 to 6
		Grain supplementation will be most appropriate when protein content of the forage is already high or when protein supplements alone will not raise the energy content of the total diet to the necessary level (60).
	beef.osu.edu /library/barley.html (7756 words)

	coast — FactMonster.com
		Much of the coast of New England and most of the Atlantic coast of Europe are young submergent coasts according to this classification scheme.
		Such shorelines are found along the Atlantic coast of the SE United States and along part of the coast of Argentina, near the Río de la Plata.
		Grain Coast - Grain Coast Grain Coast, W Africa, former name of a part of the Atlantic coast that is roughly...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/sci/A0812678.html (515 words)

	Hot Peppers and the Grain Coast - The Congo Cookbook (African recipes) www.congocookbook.com - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The African coastline in the present-day Liberia was known to Europeans as the "Grain Coast", named for the trade.
		The name "Ivory Coast" still survives, though the elephants are rarer today.) Presumably Grains of Paradise were used in Africa the same way fl or red pepper is used today: as a seasoning in sauces, soups, stews and on roasted meat.
		Grains of Paradise are mentioned in some European cookbooks of the 14th and 15th century.
	www.congocookbook.com /c0209.html (382 words)

	Breeding Program Summery
		The primary mission of CCRRF at the California Rice Experiment Station (RES) is development of improved rice varieties of all grain and market types to sustain high and stable grain yield and quality with minimum environmental impact for the benefit of California rice growers.
		As progress on grain yield was made, breeding was intensified for improved grain quality, specialty rice, disease resistance, and adaptation.
		The relationships between rice varieties, grain yield, research costs, and financial return on research are shown in the adjacent figure.
	www.plantsciences.ucdavis.edu /ricestation/breeding.htm (1298 words)

	Grain Coast -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The name of the coast originates in the early trade in the spice known as grains of paradise (Aframomum melegueta).
		The area became known as the Grain Coast because grains of Melegueta pepper, then as valuable as gold, were...
		Grains are also known as cereal, or cereal grains.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9037621?tocId=9037621 (834 words)

	Probert Encyclopaedia: Gazetteer (Grah-Gram) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Grain Valley is a city in Jackson County, Missouri, USA.
		Grain Village is a village in Kent, England.
		Grains Bar is a village in Greater Manchester, England.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /GB6A.HTM (286 words)

	Thursday, November 24, 1994 -- PRIVATE MEMBERS' BUSINESS (130) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In the sectors affected by the bill, that is the grain industry itself, the right to bargain collectively and to strike or to lock out employees is presently somewhat of a fiction.
		I say this especially in view of the fact that many of the difficulties in the prairie grain economy are attributable to the international competitive environment and the difficulties we experienced earlier this year with the hopper car situation.
		I have stated that there is a widespread consensus on the source of present difficulties in international grain markets and in the measures that are being introduced to help augment the supply and efficiency of grain hopper cars.
	www.parl.gc.ca /english/hansard/previous/130_94-11-24/130PB1E.html (6830 words)

	The Canadian Identity Preserved Recognition System - Canadian Grain Commission
		In western Canada, farmers typically deliver IP grain by truck to a country elevator and from there it is shipped by railcar to a terminal elevator.
		From Thunder Bay, IP grain moves by laker to a transfer elevator in eastern Canada where it is loaded onto an ocean-going freighter for export.
		Farmers deliver grain by truck to country elevators where it is shipped by truck to a transfer elevator for loading on to a freighter for export.
	www.grainscanada.gc.ca /Pubs/brochures/IP_recognition/ip_recognition03-e.htm (321 words)

	AllRefer.com - Grain Coast, Africa (African Physical Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Grain Coast, W Africa, former name of a part of the Atlantic coast that is roughly identical with the coast of modern Liberia.
		"grains of paradise," i.e., seeds of the melegueta pepper, became a major export item; hence the name Grain Coast.
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	Bulk Flour and Corn in California and Utah - Honeyville Grain, Inc, providing Freeze Dried Fruits, Low Carb Bakery ...
		Strategically located, Honeyville Grain's newly expanded distribution center is right next to the intersection of the I-15 and I-10 freeways within 30 minutes of the city of Los Angeles, the port of Long Beach, California, and less than 90 miles from San Diego.
		Nestled in the heart of the Rocky Mountains on a foothill next to some of the best dry farming country in the world, our mill receives wheat, barley, and rye that is consistent in quality and supply.
		The elevation and growing season in the area guarantees a continual supply of grain that has unique qualities and characteristics not found in other areas of the country.
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	grain - Definitions from Dictionary.com
		In an avoirdupois ounce there are 437.5 grains; in the troy and apothecaries' ounces there are 480 grains (one grain equals 0.0648 gram).
		A small, dry, one-seeded fruit of a cereal grass, having the fruit and the seed walls united: a single grain of wheat; gleaned the grains from the ground one at a time.
		A cereal grass: Wheat is a grain grown in Kansas.
	dictionary.reference.com /browse/grain (1370 words)

	Search Results for grain - Encyclopædia Britannica
		section of the western coast of the Gulf of Guinea, in Africa, extending approximately from Cape Mesurado to Cape Palmas—in present-day Liberia—on either side of the Cestos (Cess) River.
		Grains of paradise have long been used as a spice and traditionally as a medicine.
		Grain, cotton, and lumber were among the important agricultural products in the Louisiana Territory.
	www.britannica.com /search?query=grain&submit=Find&source=MWTAB (484 words)

	New Georgia Encyclopedia: Atlantic Slave Trade to Savannah
		The demand for African slave labor increased with the establishment of rice and Sea Island cotton plantations in the Georgia Lowcountry.
		As rice became a profitable export crop in coastal Georgia, merchants in Savannah imported Africans from the rice and grain coast of West Africa, which extended from the Senegambian region to Sierra Leone.
		During the early period of Savannah's involvement in the trade, from 1755 to 1767, 63 percent of slaves imported into Savannah originated from the Caribbean, and 24 percent came directly from Africa's rice and grain coast.
	www.georgiaencyclopedia.org /nge/Article.jsp?id=h-686 (1090 words)

	Grain Coast — Infoplease.com
		Guinea, archaic term for Africa's west coast - Guinea Guinea, an archaic term for the west coast of Africa.
		Coast to Coast: There are as many ways to mint money as grains of sand on the beach.
		Annual ring orientation effect and slope of grain in hemlock timber drying.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/world/A0821484.html (197 words)

	THE GRAIN MUST GET THROUGH!
		This is fortunate, for just as the Grain shipment came about the western shores of Greece, the wind died.
		The object of the Pirates is to capture at least 2 of the grain ships, more if possible, and tow them off one of their start areas.
		The Roman Commander is still burdened with the Grain ships, and they are an important issue, but his victory conditions now depend on the destruction of the Macedonian/greek fleet as well as protection of the grain ships.
	www.angelfire.com /nv/jazzviking/grain.html (552 words)

	graining — FactMonster.com
		graining, process of painting by which natural wood grain is imitated.
		The term is also applied to mechanical methods for producing an artificial texture of any kind, as in bookbinding, and refers to a process of artificially coarsening the smooth metal sheets to be used as plates in offset printing.
		grain, in agriculture - grain grain, in agriculture, term referring to the caryopsis, or dry fruit, of a cereal grass.
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/ent/A0821487.html (188 words)

	Guinea - IBWiki
		West of Akra, the coast is humid and used to be covered in rainforest.
		The Swamp Coast had Austro-Dalmatian, French, and Portuguese outposts; the Grain Coast only had Batavian outposts; the Ivory Coast only had Austro-Dalmatian outposts; the Gold Coast had Batavian, Danish-Norwegian, and Austro-Dalmatian outposts; the Slave Coast only had Austro-Dalmatian outposts; and the Wood Coast had Portuguese, Castillian, and French outposts.
		Slaves freed by Scandinavia were given land in Gebaland and the Pepper Coast, those freed by the Federated Kingdoms were given land in St. Thomas and Prince and in the island of St. Helena in the middle of the Atlantic.
	ib.frath.net /w/Guinea (761 words)

	Guardian \| Death on the Grain Coast
		It was important, if the fledgling settlement was to have a chance, that it should arrive on the Grain Coast before the onset of the rainy season in the spring.
		Much of the coast was sunk low in muddy mangrove swamp, interlaced with creeks where sharks shared the shallows with crocodiles.
		And the Pomona, with Captain Henry Savage commanding, had been ordered to sail to the African coast, distribute copies of the Dolben regulations among the slave factories and the agents of the Liverpool and Bristol concerns, and see that its provisions were complied with.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5274151-103680,00.html (2937 words)

	TLC-Africa - Internet Magazine
		Liberia's straight, sandy coast, 560 km (350 mi) long, is broken by lagoons and mangrove swamps and gives way to a low, rolling plain about 30 km (20 mi) wide.
		West Africa, is the former name of a part of the Atlantic coast that is roughly identical with the coast of modern Liberia.
		The area became known as the Grain Coast in the 15th century because of its “grains of paradise,” seeds of the melegueta pepper which became a major export item and hence the name Grain Coast was associated with the area.
	www.tlcafrica.com /research.htm (902 words)

	Liberia Country Study
		In the competition for living space, the strong grew stronger and occupied the choice areas; the weak were either absorbed or driven into the deeper recesses of the rain forest.
		The Kwa speakers comprised those groups that later came to be called the Balsa and Dey on the western coast, the Kru and Grebo on the eastern coast, and the Krahn in the interior (see Ethnicity and Language, ch.
		The Mande speakers were found in eight distinct tribal clusters that included the Vai on the western coast and the wide?ranging Kpelle in the interior.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/library/report/1985/liberia_1_africanbackground.htm (848 words)

	BakingBusiness.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Burlington Northern, the predominant grain shipper to Pacific Northwest ports, issued its grain shipping embargo early last week as the region's port elevators, lacking a way to unload their contents, quickly filled with grain.
		Nonetheless, Lanny Cawley, executive director with the Port of Kalama, said he has not seen any rail grain shipments arrive at port in the past few days from either Union Pacific or Burlington Northern, the only U.S. rail lines serving the West coast from the nation's heartland.
		Grain industry sources said foreign buyers have not cancelled any grain purchases because of the lockout; Jonathan Schlueter, executive vice president of the Pacific Northwest Grain and Feed Association, confirmed those comments.
	www.bakingbusiness.com /headline_stories.asp?ArticleID=57237&PF=print (502 words)

	Saratoga
		She got underway again on 3 May and proceeded down the coast to New York Harbor to prepare for service on the west coast of Africa protecting American citizens and commerce and suppressing the slave trade.
		The late spring was devoted to a cruise eastward along the coast to the Bight of Biafra.
		During her service off the lower Atlantic coast, landing parties from the ship made several raids in August and September which resulted in the capture of many prisoners and the taking or destruction of substantial quantities of ordnance, ammunition, and supplies.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/s6/saratoga-iii.htm (1988 words)

	NPTRC Newsletter--Issue 3
		Modernization of the Canadian grain handling industry will result in reduction of handling costs, while the operational advantages of high-throughput facilities (e.g., in cleaning and segregation) could create opportunities for more direct shipments from interior locations to U.S. export destinations.
		Elevators in the western and northern parts of the state ship more of their grain west than elevators in the eastern or southern parts of the state.
		The Canadian rail subsidy was an indirect subsidy provided by the Canadian government under the Western Grain Transportation Act to farmers for shipments of grains from producing regions to export ports.
	www.ag.ndsu.nodak.edu /capts/newsletter3.htm (1713 words)

	Grain Coast - TheBestLinks.com - Liberia, Grain of paradise, Pepper Coast, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Grain Coast - TheBestLinks.com - Liberia, Grain of paradise, Pepper Coast,...
		Grain Coast, Liberia, Grain of paradise, Pepper Coast
		The area that became Liberia was called the Grain Coast, because grain of paradise grew there in abundance.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Grain_Coast.html (91 words)

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		Portuguese explorers established contacts with the land later known as "Liberia" as early as 1461 and named the area the Grain Coast because of the abundance of grains of malegueta pepper.
		In 1663 the British installed trading posts on the Grain Coast, but the Dutch destroyed these posts a year later.
		No further known "European" settlements occurred along the Grain Coast until the arrival of freed American slaves after 1817.
	www.geocities.com /pakfdhosp/aboutliberia.htm (725 words)

	CWB - News Releases - 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		That message was delivered today by the CWB in a letter to the federal government urging Cabinet to take immediate steps to avert further disruptions to Canadian grain movement and to preserve Canada’s reputation as a reliable supplier of grain.
		Today’s letter to the federal government points out that farmers and their customers have already incurred significant costs related to diverting grain shipments and vessels from the shutdown Vancouver port to Prince Rupert.
		The farmer-controlled board of directors is calling on government to order the removal of pickets at the port of Prince Rupert and failing that, to enact emergency back-to-work legislation at the port of Vancouver so as to protect farmer returns in a year where every dollar counts.
	www.cwb.ca /en/news/releases/2002/110702.jsp (364 words)

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