Posted on 03/05/2022 9:14:38 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
Global food prices were already at around a 10-year high before the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Brazil is searching for new fertilizer suppliers as the war in Ukraine threatens to cut off shipments to one of the world’s breadbaskets, with potential ripple effects on already high global food inflation.
The Latin American country is the largest producer of coffee, soybeans and sugar, and the most dependent of the world’s agricultural superpowers on imported fertilizer. Brazil imports some 85% of its fertilizers and about a fifth of those imports come from Russia. The Russian trade ministry has called for a broad suspension of fertilizer exports, state news agency TASS reported Friday.
"Brazil depends on fertilizers…it’s a sacred question for us," President Jair Bolsonaro told reporters earlier this week, defending his decision to maintain cordial relations with Moscow as Russia attacks Ukraine. Mr. Bolsanaro was one of the last world leaders to visit Russian President Vladimir Putin before the invasion of Ukraine began on Feb. 24, meeting with him at the Kremlin on Feb. 16.
If Brazil’s farmers have to pay significantly more for fertilizer or are unable to produce as many crops, the cost of its agricultural products is likely to climb, driving up world food prices.
Brazil is also an important supplier of corn and beef. Higher grain prices increase animal-feed costs, which are passed on to consumers, who have to pay more for meat and other
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Global consequences of installing Plugs as POTUS.
Cutting our domestic oil supply could go down with the
1930s potato famine in the Ukraine and the famine brought
on by Red China’s central committee decades later.
We may be looking at the precursor of world hunger in the
higher developed nations.
Thanks Brandon.
Seriouly! We need a crash Federal sponsored project to up our domestic fertilizer production. To incentivize production. With Federal tax breaks. These are simple chemicals to make, so how difficult is it for the USA to be self sufficient? Not difficult at all to synthesize nitrogen fertilizer.
They produce tons of 🐂💩 in DC, with all that we should already be self sufficient.
Nothing is guaranteed. Try farming or raising livestock. Every year is a crapshoot and you ain’t farming with electric tractors. You may be right on a certain level. I raise a garden, nowhere near farming. If they are in it, it’s for the money which doesn’t always show up. Grandad told me when I was a youngster to by land. God don’t make it no more.
There needs to be a Free Flow Pact that ensures the free flow of fuel, fertilizer, and food.
Good plan.
Brazil is exempt from Russia’s fertilizer export ban.
Brazil exempted by Russian export ban of fertilizers, Russia will continue to supply fertilizer to Brazil, whereas Russia blocks fertilizer exports to the EU
GloboNews
@GloboNews
· Mar 4
Brasil não entra na restrição de exportação russa de fertilizantes. Governo russo afirmou que medida é direcionada à União Europeia.
Looking in my Crystal Ball:
BRICS five founders are going to benefit from the US,/EU sanctions ploy.
Mentioned as an afterthought? Yeah, JBS is one of the big four in the US and also deals with pork, lamb, sheep and poultry.
JBS Foods International (JBSFI) engages in the food business internationally, and is the largest meatpacking company in the world.[3] It is a "controlled company" in SEC parlance. JBSFI operates through four segments: Beef, Pork, Poultry, and Other. It offers fresh and processed beef, lamb, sheep, pork, and chicken. JBSFI is the largest leather processor in the world.[4] It also processes collagen, biodiesel fuel, hygiene and cleaning products, and is involved in metal packaging, carriers, waste management, casings, and trading activities, as well as provides prepared food products. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBS_Foods_International
Parent Company - JBS S.A. is a Brazilian company that is the largest meat processing company (by sales) in the world, producing factory processed beef, chicken and pork, and also selling by-products from the processing of these meats. It is headquartered in São Paulo.[2] It was founded in 1953 in Anápolis, Goiás. As of 2017, the company had 150 industrial plants around the world.[3] J&F Investimentos is a 42% indirect shareholder in JBS S.A.,[4] which is listed on American stock markets as JBSAY.[5] J&F Investimentos is wholly owned by Joesley Batista and Wesley Batista. As of May 2017, JBS S.A. remains the world's biggest butcher.[6] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBS_S.A.
US Company JBS USA Holdings, Inc. is an American food processing company and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Brazilian company JBS S.A. The subsidiary was created when JBS entered the U.S. market in 2007 with its purchase of Swift & Company. JBS specializes in Wagyu Beef, the only certified Japanese Cattle distributer on the entire eastern U.S. seaboard
JBS USA is based in Neptune Township, New Jersey.[1] Its competitors include Cargill, Smithfield Foods, and Tyson Foods. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JBS_USA
My meat goats are getting more valuable by the day and I also plan to grow as many veggies as possible this year. First batch of 72 seeds were just started a couple of days ago.
First batch of 72 seeds were just started a couple of days ago.
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Seeds of What? I never counted seeds per se. We plowed &
made rows and dropped seeds along the row.
Meat goats? Who is going to butcher them and keep them out of your vegetable garden? Goats don’t mind eating a row of hot peppers.
I'll be butchering them and my 9,000 volt high tensile fence keeps them in bounds. Gonna have to lock up the hen though. I've got one hen left out of 5 hens and two roosters who the hawks all got. She's a survivor though. I quit feeding her after the rest were gone because I figured she wasn't long for this world. That was two years ago and even thought I don't feed her, she still lays eggs which makes them FREE eggs. She's a little on the broody side too so I'm going to get some more fertilized eggs from the neighbor where she came from, lock her up with the eggs, food and water and I'm pretty sure she'll hatch them out. Once the garden's done for the year, I'll let them out and she can teach them how to survive the hawks. She dashes across open areas and spends a lot of time close to the goats and dogs.
I'm starting most things indoors to get a head start. Lettuce, peas and komatsuma(spinach like thing) is the first batch.
72 cell seed starting tray, 24 cell tray, heat mats and grow lights.
Lettuce and komatsuma, I dropped 2-3 seeds in each hole because they're for baby greens/lettuce salads. One type of lettuce is Ice Queen, an iceberg type. The other three are leaf type and will just get young leaves snipped as needed. Iceberg type will be thinned to single strongest plant by snipping of any others. Might thin leaf lettuce to 1-2 plants. So technically, I planted a lot more than 72 seeds and I don't know exactly how many. The packets have way more than I need and I'll still have enough left for next year. Big ole pea seeds were one per hole because unlike tiny lettuce seeds, it's easy to grab just one.
Frost free date isn't until May 5th but these first items should be safe to transplant in a few weeks. The 72 cell tray will be refilled with brassica and greens. Maters & peppers will go in 24 cell tray and will live indoors a while longer than brassica/greens.
We had snow in the first week of May when we first moved here 10 years ago. Rare but it happens. Most people around here don't touch the garden until mid May and then direct seed and in June, put plants like maters & peppers in that they buy at walmart.
The clayey loam here is still cold and waterlogged. It's like Jello right now so no using equipment on it yet. Tonight, heavy rain and this coming Friday, rain/snow during day and 16 at night. We're apt to have a thin coating of ice on everything Friday night/Saturday morning. We get a lot of that in the Ozarks. Just had a couple inches of sleet last week. Looked white like snow but you could drive a vehicle on it and not leave tracks.
We get lots of wind too during Winter and Spring. Yesterday was 40 mph gusts. It'll start calming down in a month or so but Spring rains will really kick in. If you get a few days in Spring when the soil is dry enough to work, you better work it because it might be weeks before you get that again. My neighbor couldn't walk in his garden for a full month last May/June. He had already tilled and planted, including store bought mater plants. I didn't grow anything last year. I'll probably supply him and another neighbor with mater plants this year, for a small fee. Will pay for my mater seeds and maybe all my seeds.
So I'm getting a head start, avoiding ice/sleet coated seedlings & saving a few bucks by not buying started plants. Sometime in the near future I'll get the high tunnel put up and gain 1-2 months on each end of the season and be able to grow hardy greens through winter. I also want to put a lean to greenhouse against the front of the house which faces South.
Just checked the 72 cell tray I planted 3-4 days ago and half the seeds have germinated. Grow lights should be coming in tomorrow. Then I can pull the lid off once all seedling have true leaves and light them up.
Thanks. I understand what you are doing now. We didn’t have to
do that where I was raised a few miles north of the Gulf of Mexico.
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