https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/16/us-europe-to-improve-food-chains-after-india-bans-wheat-exports.html
Given that India just had a massive heat wave, they must be girding themselves for a potential famine from crop destruction.
In NASS’s first winter wheat production forecast for 2022, production is expected to decrease 8% from 2021. As of May 1, the U.S. yield is expected to average 47.9 bushels per acre, down 2.3 bushels from last year’s average of 50.2 bushels per acre.
From the actual briefing slides, winter wheat’s harvested/planted ratio is at its worst for at least 10 years, as is total yield in bushels. Fruit production is down, too.
Given inflation and the recession, will Biden see hunger protests before the midterms? I’m not sure if the job losses will have kicked in by summers, but if trends continue next summer will be “interesting”.
what's the big deal, i thought biden was using his big spoon to rescue ukrainian grain reserves from the asiatic hordes
Apologies for being a brainlet, but wouldn't this be a bad thing? Wheat is a very important crop and not something I'd consider to be a "treat".
yes, I think so. And the majority of exported Indian wheat goes to neighboring countries (Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka) not the US/Europe
I wish we could do that with our bananas instead of shipping them to countries where they're completely wasted.
Yeah fuck Chiquita. Nobody ever reported the guy who used to smear his shit on their warehouse walls because of the shit they've pulled.
Margrethe Vestager is an ideologically committed neoliberal ghoul. Back in Denmark, when she led a "centre-right" party that is ironically named The Radical Left, and was the junior part of a coalition government led by the succdems, she forced the succdems to break their campaign promises and introduce sweeping cuts of unemployment benefits during a recession, fully knowing that it would lead to the electoral defeat of the coalition and the decimation of her own party's votes.
She's a mean, evil woman who pretends to be "progressive" because she doesn't openly hate brown people and LGBT people.
PS: Although she had no problems strongarming the succdems to cut unemployment benefits, she somehow failed to use that political muscle to get them to tone down their racism. Funny how these things work.
Which is funny, because her party is the closets analogue to the Democrats that we have. Only thing is they aren't as outwardly woke as Dems are, but instead rely much more heavily on tone policing the populist-right-wing party. I also fucking hate that I cannot ever really express my discontent with that party without coming across as an unhinged Chud. Especially because that party has a fucking stranglehold on most of the educated administrative workers that I see every day. Truly sucks living in a place where political understanding is almost at American levels of detached from reality.
Wow, imagine stockpiling a necessary resource instead of just-in-time production. Line is not going to be happy about this!
enjoy that the grain supply may fail before the funko supply does, and yet it is the latter that will cause systemic collapse
I don't see this article framing India as "hoarding" or anything negative. Many countries are doing this, I assume India is mentioned specifically because it is the largest county and their announcement came recently on Saturday
