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Post by missouriboy on Nov 17, 2019 0:41:18 GMT
I hope she's low methane, low carbon.
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Post by sigurdur on Nov 17, 2019 13:30:09 GMT
China is also very big. They need a lot of food but with energy from nuclear, water is suddenly no constraint. They are producing a lot of food domestically and even a significant amount for export. They do understand the concept of a diversified supply chain and with food two hemispheres is better than one. NZ and the US food producers are at the mercy of a lot of forces and Trump did you no favours when he indicated to the Chinese that domestic production is strategically better. The strategic part of China's food import sources has been well understood by the US and China for decades. Advisers to President Trump understand this. The only way to encourage China to be a reliable trading partner was to hit them at the belt.
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 18, 2019 12:48:29 GMT
This wet and cold damaging harvests is so much like the start of "The Great Famine" of the early 1300's as the Earth cooled out of the Medieval Warm Period.
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Post by glennkoks on Nov 18, 2019 14:10:21 GMT
I found this very interesting: NEW YORK, Nov 13 (Reuters) - Two sugar beet producers declared a surprising force majeure due to freezing U.S. weather conditions, according to market participants and company officials, driving the market higher on Wednesday. If you are like me and did not know what a "force majeure" was follow this link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Force_majeureIn short it is a rarely used "out" that frees both sides of a contract from liability due to something like and act of God. (Earthquake, freak storm etc.) In this case it was due to freezing weather and a screwed up growing season in general.
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 18, 2019 15:19:56 GMT
Is this commentary a "picture" of harvest present and a logical assessment of harvests yet to come? ... or an unwarranted descent into "coldest" pessimism?
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Post by nautonnier on Nov 26, 2019 12:37:25 GMT
Les gilets jaunes meet die gelbe westen
All is not well in European agriculture - the so called climate action is a hit on farming - therefore a hit on food. European agriculture is the most powerful lobby in the EU.
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 26, 2019 15:33:24 GMT
Amazing what organizations of "armed" citizens can do. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I didn't see "government" mentioned once. Historically, frontiers have also been cleaned up like that.
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Post by missouriboy on Nov 29, 2019 19:05:28 GMT
"The reduction is primarily in Minnesota and North Dakota, the first and third largest sugarbeet producing states. The reduction is due to lowered harvested area forecasts, currently at 971,000 acres -- an 11.3% reduction from the October forecast. If realized, this would be the lowest harvested acreage total since 1960-61."
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Post by sigurdur on Nov 30, 2019 5:13:11 GMT
Yep. The payment per ton of harvested beets is taking a heck of a hit as well.
Fixed costs have to be recovered.
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Post by nautonnier on Dec 11, 2019 22:11:31 GMT
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Post by Ratty on Jan 3, 2020 22:43:58 GMT
Sig, I've got a post for you and will await for you to start a 2020 ag thread Will it be visionary, Code?
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