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unusual facts about Grain trade


Grain trade

In addition the consolidation of farmland in Britain and Eastern Europe, and the development of the railway and steam ship shifted trade from local to more international patterns.



see also

Christian Allhusen

In 1827 in Newcastle, a businessman in the grain trade, he went into partnership with Henry Bolckow.

Grain race

The Last Grain Race, a 1956 book by Eric Newby on the last (1939) voyage in the Australian grain trade by Moshulu, the largest sailing ship still transporting grain at the time

Gustaf Erikson

A young Eric Newby sailed to Australia on Moshulu in 1938–1939, as part of the South Australian grain trade.

Jacob Letterstedt

He arrived at Cape Town in 1820, where he made his fortune in grain trade.