The Leading Rice Growing States In The United States
And, the reason rice fields are flooded is to kill weeds.
The US fertilizer plants are having shipping issues.
Lucky for rice farmers. They get to use water for weed control rather than pay the inflated prices, if even available, for herbicide.
Sanctions are a tool that affects a lot of people other than those that are the target.
Because 1.81% of the world attacked 0.56% of the world, we seem intent on screwing up 100% of the global economy.
The 85% of the world that is not involved in the sanctions is going to figure out how to get even.
Whatever the left “warns” us about, they are planning on implementing.
Prepare accordingly.
Yeah but knowing Big AG and farmers, they’ll sell Arkansas rice to China if they can get more money for it. Globalism sucks.
“The International Rice Research Institute warns that harvests could plunge as much as 10% in the next season,
equating to about 36 million tons of rice, or enough food to feed a half billion people, according to Bloomberg. “
”Chemical fertilizers, such as nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium, are the most applied nutrients for high-yielding rice cultivation.
Farmers have been particularly vulnerable to soaring fertilizer prices as some have reduced the amount of nutrients to save costs.
This threatens future harvests as production declines could stoke food inflation for a crop that feeds half of humanity. “
”Humnath Bhandari, a senior agricultural economist at the institute, said the 10% drop in global rice production is a “very conservative estimate.”
”Russia and Belarus are big suppliers of every major type of crop nutrient.
Western countries have sanctioned both, which have limited fertilizers shipments to the rest of the world, crimping supply and why prices are soaring.
On top of this, Moscow has reduced or halted nutrient exports. “
”Nguyen Binh Phong, the owner of a fertilizer shop in Vietnam’s Kien Giang province, said nutrient costs have soared three-fold over the past year,
forcing farmers in the region to reduce fertilizer use by up to 20% because of rising prices. “
”Governments across Asia have kept rice prices under control to maintain social order. Some countries offer generous fertilizer subsidies to farmers to keep yields plentiful.
For example, India will spend $20 billion this year to shield farmers from soaring nutrient prices, up from the $14 billion budget before the Russian invasion of Ukraine."
“Global food prices will remain at record-highs (or at least elevated levels) as forward-looking markets expect tightening supplies in 2023. “(Emphasis theirs)
“This will give rise to continued social unrest .. as the dominoes fall in the weakest countries. “
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/11/191101081958.htm
”Rice is the largest global staple crop, consumed by more than half the world's population -- but new experiments from Stanford University suggest that with climate change,
production in major rice-growing regions with endemic soil arsenic will undergo a dramatic decline and jeopardize critical food supplies.
“These experiments exploring rice production in future climate conditions show rice yields could drop about 40 percent by 2100
-- with potentially devastating consequences in parts of the world that rely on the crop as a basic food source.
What's more, changes to soil processes due to increased temperatures will cause rice to contain twice as much toxic arsenic than the rice consumed today.
The research was published Nov. 1 in Nature Communications ."
“"By the time we get to 2100, we're estimated to have approximately 10 billion people, so that would mean we have 5 billion people dependent on rice,
and 2 billion who would not have access to the calories they would normally need," said co-author Scott Fendorf, the Terry Huffington Professor in Earth system science
at Stanford University's School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences (Stanford Earth).
"We have to be aware of these challenges that are coming so we can be ready to adapt."
This is certainly not scientific, but I was in Sam’s in Elizabethtown Kentucky today and the bulk rice section was down by about 3/4