Posted on 05/11/2022 4:01:04 PM PDT by blam
As global food prices remain at record highs and war wages in Europe between two of the world’s largest grain suppliers, troubling videos from China show farmers slashing winter wheat production ahead of harvest times, adding even more uncertainty about food security.
Bloomberg reports China’s agriculture ministry is very concerned about the matter. The ministry is investigating if there’s illegal destruction of wheat crops.
The ministry said this comes three weeks before harvests, adding the crop was subjected to devastating floods late last year. There’s also concern that soggy field conditions in southern China due to abnormal rainfall could affect farmers’ ability to harvest.
An analyst at Melbourne-based Thomas Elder Markets, Andrew Whitelaw, said it’s not surprising that farmers are cutting their wheat early for hay as this may be a better return on their money because of poor crop conditions.
“If China has a poor crop this season, then they will likely have to continue with a strong import program … there are “already question marks around China’s food security ambitions,” Whitelaw said, adding that the country has ramped up wheat imports this year.
Here are some videos of Chinese trucks loaded up with unripened wheat that will be used as animal feed instead of flour for human consumption.
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The situation in China adds to wheat production concerns in Ukraine, Russia’s unlikeness to ship the crop to “unfriendly” countries, India’s threats of wheat export bans due to severe weather, and planting issues in the US Northern Plains and Canada because of wet conditions. As a result of all of these issues that may tighten global food markets even further, US wheat futures hit a 14-year high on Monday.
Feeding the animals so that the party members get fed, if there is a food crisis developing.
Let’s guess that they know what they’re doing. It’s all about money. Maybe they think they can get an extra crop?
American media is completely ignoring China’s inhumane, dystopian and nearly satanic covid lockdowns - done purely for political / power reasons of the CCP
Part of it is because China is non-western, and China controls access very tightly - and partly because China’s political-covid insanity reflects very badly on our own deep-state, who is guilty of some measure of the same thing.
What? We got crazed Chinamen farmers razing wheat fields 3 weeks early. Stupid China farmers.
China is communist so they get a pass from the communist/Democrats, as does, Russia, Venezuela, etc.
Chinese grain silos are full. No room left for new grain.
Shouldn’t China’s agriculture ministry know that?
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Can feed dairy cows and feedlot steers during Summer.
If they’ve got some kind of mildew or fungus from the floods, then it won’t be fit for human consumption anyway. So cutting it early for animal feed before it’s contaminated any further is the right move.
One thing I know for sure is that farmers in the field, even Chinese ones, know more about what to do than any reporter or government flunky does.
All this about droughts and diesel and fertilizer and war is making Doomsday Preppers look more and more rational by the hour.
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Dairy in China? Tell me you haven’t been to China without telling me you haven’t been to China.
I do not speak Chinese……………………………………………………..
Aside from a couple of phrases, I don’t either. If course that didn’t stop someone from telling me,”You speak excellent Chinese!” So polite. Anyway, cheese and butter are practically unheard of and milk (if you can find it) is found unrefrigerated in the type of boxes you get chicken or vegetable stock in. Point is, farmers are looking to feed dairy cattle.
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In 2021, China produced 36.8 million metric tonnes of milk.
Shouldn’t China’s agriculture ministry know that?
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They know what amounts of grain they have, and since they have the major portion of the World’s grain supply locked up, there is little room for more. So they arrange an operation to pin the problem on someone else in typical CCP fashion.
If you think Orc Land is corrupt, the CCP’s China makes them look like amateurs.
About a third of what the US produces in a country with four times the population.
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