Posted on 08/18/2019 5:57:16 AM PDT by ameribbean expat
Since Russia still needs to import soybeans to fulfil its own needs, it was unlikely to provide an effective answer to China’s problems, Rylko added. He also warned that many of the European soybeans were not of particularly high quality because they were relatively low in protein.
He predicted that the best-case scenario would see Russian soybean exports reaching 2 million tonnes a year – a significant rise on last year’s total of 800,000 tonnes. However, that is still a drop in the ocean compared with China’s annual consumption of more than 100 million tonnes – some 88 per cent of which were imports, including 16 million tonnes supplied by the US.
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Yes, generally provides for leaner pork than corn feed.
I agree that their agriculture is growing, and has the potential to grow a lot more, but they are still importing food as well. This growth in global output will put great pressure on prices as well. The US, IMO, has a greater internal demand than Russia does, so the ability to absorb production is also greater. Plus never underestimate the ability of state run places like Russia and China to screw things up in the name of progress, of course we are pretty good at that ourselves. I loved an article I read about a farmer who employs 10 hands and 3 guards, that should tell you something, like the cartels and avocado production in Mexico
Whatever happened to the stories about the swine disease epidemic in china, probably still feeding the sick animals to their people or worse exporting it to US, of course through a willing third party country MAde IN China er ah Brazil
Why are there dozens of ‘ghost cities’ in China? - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiTDU8MZRYw
https://allthatsinteresting.com/chinese-ghost-cities
“” “” And Russia and China are still controlled by communism as well even if they don’t have the old appearance””” “
ROLFMAO. US Congress, Hollywood and MSM has more communists that Russia nowadays. In terms of government Russia is more like Latin America just a bit less corrupt and more orderly. Definately less corrupt than Italy but more corrupt than Norway. Probably on par with US in terms of corruption. To call it dictatorship is ignorance and propaganda. The government in Russia is in many senses weaker than in US, let alone most of Europe.
China is communist in name only as well although they have indeed government controlling much. More correctly would be to say China is a fascist country. It has less practical communism than US as well.
Read the definition of communism to start with.
I’ve spent a significant amount of time in Russia (and am actually here at the moment). Food is absolutely, positively, not a problem here. They have everything from the traditional local markets, to the neighborhood groceries, to the super/hyper markets just like we have. Every single one of these places is packed from floor to ceiling with food.
Spoken like a true believer. I spent much of last summer in Russia. You vastly sanitize the situation in Russia. Anything imported to Russia is much more expensive compared to imported products in the US or EU. Domestic Russian products are of lesser quality. You will get a much better selection of food and consumer products in the former soviet bloc countries of the EU.
No tofu for you!
Plus never underestimate the ability of state run places like Russia and China to screw things up in the name of progress, of course we are pretty good at that ourselves
I agree. Russia is still underdeveloped. I spent some time there and the sense of vast emptiness is noticeable. In the cities, too, you see large areas with virtually no retail development. It’s a huge country, obviously. It’s really not like the EU were everything feels compact and cities relatively close together.
Better retail is in large malls in suburbs. Beats most ‘better developed’ parts of EU let alone former Soviet Bloc.
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