BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Argentina, one of the world's biggest breadbaskets, should be rolling in cash as world food prices soar.Instead, soy, wheat and corn have sat for weeks in silos as farmers protesting new export taxes suspended sales.
Farmers were lifting their strike Sunday night in a last-ditch effort at a third round of talks. But their three-month standoff with the government has already paralyzed the rural economy, caused scattered food shortages and tanked the new president's popularity.
And continued stalemate could spike global grain prices at a time when food costs are already high.
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