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Soybean giant Brazil swoops on US crop as China trade war punctures prices
South China Morning Post ^ | Updated : Saturday, 21 July, 2018, 3:37am | Keegan Elmer

Posted on 07/25/2018 7:16:54 PM PDT by Red Steel

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To: central_va

Bingo. The DNC-Media speak as if the US is in a David Ricardo macro economic trade equilibrium and that Trump is destroying it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Our midwest towns and cities have been decimated by a decades-long trade war that we have been losing and it’s time to stop. The fancy economists on TV never mention the social cost about trade and those societal costs dwarf the product tariffs, and it’s important to note.

We should have done a better job. Ghost towns, food stamps and opioid addictions do not mean you have free trade. It means you have sucker-trade.


41 posted on 07/26/2018 6:27:24 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus (The trouble with socialism is that you soon run out of other people's zoo animals to eat.)
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To: montag813; tx_eggman

I’m 51 years old. I will sacrifice my sperm count for my cholesterol count.


42 posted on 07/26/2018 8:40:03 AM PDT by SpinnerWebb (Winter is coming)
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To: Red Steel

An American official involved in the process stated flatly that Brazil did not have the output capacity to provide the beans now provided by the USA.


43 posted on 07/26/2018 8:44:13 AM PDT by bert
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To: vette6387
I just checked Worldwide soybean production:

the US produces 52% of the total .

Here are the players:
Ukraine (3.9 million metric tons) ...
Canada (6.0 million metric tons) ...
Paraguay (10.0 million metric tons) ...
India (10.5 million metric tons) ...
China (12.2 million metric tons) ...
Argentina (53.4 million metric tons) ...
Brazil (86.8 million metric tons) ...
USA (108.0 million metric tons)


So the question is, can the world afford not to buy soybeans from the US?


Um, I think your numbers are off somewhere. The US isn't producing 50%, by your numbers we're around 38% of the total. Unless you mean the US produces 180MM, not 108.
44 posted on 07/26/2018 1:20:58 PM PDT by Svartalfiar
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To: vette6387

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Its the dishonest and unscrupulous manufactu4rers that beg to differ because soy is cheap and fulfills the UN agenda to depopulate the world.

Most people haven’t the intelligence to read the lables to see that soy or canola are present in the concoction that is killing them.
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45 posted on 07/26/2018 4:26:57 PM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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To: Fungi

Yes, soy beans are a blight on the human race. Well fermented their dire consequences are quelled. It distresses me to see so many soy bean fields when decent produce could be grown in them.


46 posted on 07/26/2018 6:05:46 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus? He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
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To: Fungi

Yes, soy beans are a blight on the human race. Well fermented their dire consequences are quelled. It distresses me to see so many soy bean fields when decent produce could be grown in them.


47 posted on 07/26/2018 6:05:47 PM PDT by Bellflower (Who dares believe Jesus? He says absolutely amazing things, which few dare consider.)
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To: central_va

Cone Mills recently shut down. The last true selvedge denim producer in the USA. When Levi’s Jeans were the “Shrink to fit” tough thick jeans I used to buy in the early 1980’s they were made from Cone Mills denim.

Now Levis are crap. Quality control is garbage. The fabric is garbage. The fits have all changed wildly. 501’s look nothing like they used to.

I expected that Cone Mills would have their machinery torn down and sold to either China or Japan (Japan has a big fetish for artisan Denim). Now that Trump is waving his magic wand, I still hold out hope that someone in the USA will buy Cone Mills and restart it with classic pattern jeans in authentic denim.


48 posted on 07/26/2018 6:17:59 PM PDT by Tailback
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“Its the dishonest and unscrupulous manufactu4rers that beg to differ because soy is cheap and fulfills the UN agenda to depopulate the world.”

That comment is so ridiculously nonsensical as to not even require a response. But again, it has nothing to do with the issue of the world wide distribution of Soybeans. Like it or not, the world consumes megatons of Soybeans every year, this country produces more than half of it, and we need to have it sold in a market environment where the producers playing field is level. A final comment: If, as you believe, Soybeans are a UN "plot" to kill us all off, why is it that the countries where Soybeans are a major component of the local diet, are flourishing as in China, Japan, and all of Southeast Asia and India for that matter?

49 posted on 07/28/2018 7:31:02 PM PDT by vette6387
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The comment that is ridiculous is your own.

It simply acknowledges your total lack of understanding of just about everything of significance.

Soy as beans is not a major component anywhere but the US where people willingly consume their own death.

In asia, soy is used only in the fermented state.

As for plots, the UN does not plot, it is a plot.


50 posted on 07/30/2018 9:55:14 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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