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Era of Low Food Prices Has Come to End, Cargill’s Conway Says

February 08, 2012, 4:21 AM EST

By Isis Almeida

Feb. 5 (Bloomberg) -- The era of low food prices has come to an end, and speculators are an “essential” part of the markets, Cargill Inc.’s vice chairman, Paul Conway, said.

Speculators don’t change supply and demand fundamentals, he said at the Kingsman sugar conference in Dubai today.

To contact the reporter on this story: Isis Almeida in London at ialmeida3@bloomberg.net

To contact the editor responsible for this story: Claudia Carpenter at ccarpenter2@bloomberg.net

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