1.   Grain futures prices have rocketed higher on fears of a disastrous crop harvest.

2.   It also is partially insulated from the crop harvest, which was damaged by an unusual amount of rain.

3.   The industry maintains that its workers are employed throughout the year, not transients who follow crop harvests.

4.   Union Pacific will be particularly susceptible next year to the impact of the poor crop harvest, analysts said.

5.   Hard hit by three years of poor crop harvests, flooding and drought, many North Koreans were now taking desperate measures to survive.

6.   In rural Vietnam, seasonal unemployment is believed to be very high between crop harvests.

7.   The fires were caused by a prolonged dry season that has also caused rice and other crop harvests to fail, bringing food shortages to some areas.

8.   Flour mills are currently being supplied by imported American wheat as the country awaits its own crop harvest in April, business sources said.

9.   But crop harvests are almost non-existent here.

10.   Last year Algeria had exceptionally heavy rains and record crop harvests.