1.   Then came low commodity prices, scab disease, excessive moisture and crop-robbing hailstorms.

2.   Aluminum producers were also weighed by low commodity prices.

3.   Analysts said low commodity prices were likely to keep producer prices in check.

4.   But a five-year drought and persistently low commodity prices have increased the pressure on farmers and accelerated rural population loss.

5.   For many years, the government sent farmers checks to make up for low commodity prices in years with bumper crops.

6.   Glickman said he was concerned with how biotechnology would affect farmers, who are suffering from very low commodity prices.

7.   In its latest regional economic survey, the Fed said that U.S. inflation remains contained as productivity gains and low commodity prices hold down the effects of wage gains.

8.   In an atmosphere of low commodity prices around the globe, inflation is not the threat it was even a few years ago.

9.   Low commodity prices and pressures from big retailers are squeezing farmers and middlemen, thereby reaching suppliers of farm products and equipment.

10.   Sturm, whose Ivy Canada is one of the few Canadian-oriented mutual funds available to American investors, says low commodity prices have created a buying opportunity.