Posted on 03/09/2022 1:12:07 PM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Except thyere ain't gonna BE enough to fertilize all the corn we normally grow.
The cynic would assign control of so much of the lobal food trade as reason enough for Putin to take over Ukraine.
Between wheat and oil/natgas Russia becomes an all-powerful player on the world stage, as long as the USA stays on the sidelines as the puppeteers behind Biden want us to do..
But when you try to do that with Russia, there is a boomerang. They are so big and provide critical and strategic resources like oil, gas, titanium, platinum, wheat... that any embargo against them will also cut into our flesh.
Yeah, we grow lots of corn, to put in our cars.
Don’t forget about Eastern Washington. IIRC, they’re one of the 10th largest wheat producers in the world.
So let’s keep using grain for fuel! /s
China was way ahead. They told their people to stock grains months ago. That’s where the price increase started.
Yeah, I used to think the North American grain farmer could show OPEC what for. Imagine developing and harnessing the world’s most productive farmers, land (if they can get fertilizer), machinery and farm technology and using that capacity to manipulate the world’s production of food. Or the North American grain farmer could just feed the world, if given proper support.
As a wise man on CNBC said about a decade ago:
China has central planning by scientists, engineers, and mathematicians, and the US has central planning by lawyers. Neither one is good, but by definition we lose.
Yet another Reason that Putin shouldn’t be allowed to take Ukraine.
Instead of competitors you would have one country with a near monopoly on grain.
America grows and exports corn.
'Nother thing - Ukraine has warm-water ports on the Black Sea, making bulk wheat exports much easier than by rail.
One of the geopolitical advantages the USA enjoys is that its' huge corn/wheat/soybean farming land, which the largest contiguous grain-growing area in the world, is traversed by the Mississippi drainage, enabled cheap transport of grain to world markets through New Orleans.
Look at a map of the Mississippi drainage:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mississippiriver-new-01.png
Russia has nothing like this. Ukraine sorta-kinda does, (the Dnieper River).
Exactly what @$$hole Biden wants. Him and his masters want to destroy America. Destroy the very citizens of this nation. Gas, good, utility bills have costed us over $200 extra these past two months. The gas station we use has jumped 79 cents in the past five days!!! Our food bill has shot up $70 per week the past three weeks. Our light bill has jumped $45 each month the past two months. Every stinking utility bill we have has jumped. I am about to drastically cut back on the number of channels we have on DirecTV because they have jumped their costs. This is going to destroy every person’s ability to take care of their homes, families, health care, you name it. We have three doctor’s appointment that we are going to have to drive 150 miles round trip in the next 8 days. Gonna be fun filling up for every stinking one of those!!!
How much land is being cultivated for corn because of the ethanol mandates? I remember the good old days when Jimmy Carter was selling wheat to the Russians because they couldn’t feed themselves. Now the situation is reversed?
It makes a REAL difference WHO is president.
China’s winter wheat crops have failed and our winter wheat crop areas are mostly in a drought. Earlier this week Wheat went up something like 200% to 300%.
We used to supply a lot of the world’s grains; Ethanol-infused gasoline killed that, along with other factors.
Haber Bosch Process
https://www.thoughtco.com/overview-of-the-haber-bosch-process-1434563
Its going to get far worse unless Biden and his ship of fools are gone soon.
Yes....I remember that too.
Roughly 40% of the US corn crop goes to ethanol. If we eliminated the ethanol requirement, we would have no grain shortage.
They are talking about global exports... That doesn’t mean we are importing any or all of that. But obviously what happens globally affects prices here also.
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