1 posted on
04/23/2008 3:05:10 PM PDT by
blam
To: blam
The problem with growing rice in Asia is that their hanging on to traditional farming methods is slowing down rice production. They're nothing like American rice growing, where modern farming methods with special machines designed to work in muddy rice fields, modern use of fertilizers and modern irrigation methods ensures very high yields on a per farmer basis.
In fact, many specialty rice sold in Japan are starting to come from Arkansas and Texas, where such specialty rice could be grown on a large scale and still sell at a nice profit in Japan even after import duties.
To: blam
the conversion of good cultivable land in the United States to biofuel producing corn Feed corn shortages due to biofuels I can understand. But, I have yet to see any indication that corn is being grown in former rice paddies in the United States.
To: blam
‘All the rice in China’ just ain’t what it used to be, it seems.
4 posted on
04/23/2008 3:21:11 PM PDT by
Post Toasties
(It's not a smear if it's true.)
To: blam
‘All the rice in China’ just ain’t what it used to be, it seems.
5 posted on
04/23/2008 3:22:31 PM PDT by
Post Toasties
(It's not a smear if it's true.)
To: blam
Perhaps the Philippines should import American bread. Time to find a new staple.
6 posted on
04/23/2008 3:31:48 PM PDT by
montag813
To: blam
> the negative impact of climatic changes;
Sure.
>Until the world refocuses on increasing its food grain output and controlling the population
Red flags up...
7 posted on
04/23/2008 3:31:50 PM PDT by
bill1952
(I will vote for McCain if he resigns his Senate seat before this election.)
To: blam
Wheat prices continue to drop since the blowoff top last month...
![](http://www.rjobrien.com/corp/getchart.php?showextendednames=true&CONT=WN08&&period=d&bartype=bar&bardensity=Low&size=MEDIUM)
8 posted on
04/23/2008 3:32:56 PM PDT by
montag813
To: blam
Good availability in Mumbai, where my wife called her relatives last night to check. No problems at all. Also, a record wheat harvest.
9 posted on
04/23/2008 3:35:13 PM PDT by
steve86
(Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
To: blam
Crop failures in a particular year exasperate the situation, which occurred this year with lower-than-expected crops in Australia and the United States. I just love living in a post literate world, where words like "exacerbate" are too exotic for familiarity....Shouls this latest bit of newspaper dumbassery be blamed on SpellCheck or upon uneducated writers and /or editors?
To: blam
Crop failures in a particular year exasperate the situation, which occurred this year with lower-than-expected crops in Australia and the United States. I just love living in a post literate world, where words like "exacerbate" are too exotic for familiarity....Should this latest bit of newspaper dumbassery be blamed on SpellCheck or upon uneducated writers and /or editors?
To: blam
15 posted on
04/23/2008 4:12:47 PM PDT by
rabidralph
(Hillary is the MSM's Bimbo Eruption.)
To: blam
My uncle's neighbor farms Horseradish in Northern Minnesota, after a couple of years he floods the fields and farms rice on them to kill off the old roots and amend the soil. Perhaps he will produce more rice this year instead of Horseradish.
25 posted on
04/23/2008 5:15:34 PM PDT by
Sawdring
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