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Post by Sigurdur on Mar 30, 2023 12:09:36 GMT
The world is not running out of food today. |
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Post by nonentropic on Mar 30, 2023 18:21:42 GMT
fully agree.
In 1850 transport would have restrainer trade and starvation would have ensued.
Additionally with interhemispherical trade inventory need only cover 6 months rather than 12 months.
Now price is another discussion and those signals are what we should be watching.
Food waste is biggest in countries such as India so price of products can produce an "apparent supply".
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Post by ratty on Mar 31, 2023 0:38:20 GMT
[ Snip ] I've noticed that Zeihan doesn't mind leaving out contradictory details on occasion. I would NEVER do that when trying to make a point! Really ....  |
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Post by Sigurdur on Mar 31, 2023 20:00:10 GMT
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Post by ratty on Apr 1, 2023 0:38:49 GMT
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Post by Sigurdur on Apr 1, 2023 2:08:54 GMT
No. Human and animal feed. |
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Post by Sigurdur on Apr 1, 2023 14:58:32 GMT
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Post by missouriboy on Apr 1, 2023 16:11:59 GMT
Nothing can save that intended bureaucratic mess. It either needs to be removed from the political realm, or totally defunded. |
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Post by blueridgefarms on Apr 2, 2023 1:53:44 GMT
That's something like 5 million more total acres in 2023 than in 2022. Good luck finding them. Part of the story is that the Dakotas had a lot of acres that didn't get planted last year. Much more than usual. And this report assumes a historic average number of prevent plant acres for the upcoming year. Trouble is that there's a lot of snow on the ground in the Dakota's on April 1st. There might be a lot of prevent plant acres again this year. The ray of hope in that is that the snow came early and stayed deep. So the frost isn't as deep as you'd expect. When the snow melts, the ground could be ready to go soon thereafter. |
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Post by txfarmer on Apr 2, 2023 3:16:22 GMT
That's something like 5 million more total acres in 2023 than in 2022. Good luck finding them. Part of the story is that the Dakotas had a lot of acres that didn't get planted last year. Much more than usual. And this report assumes a historic average number of prevent plant acres for the upcoming year. Trouble is that there's a lot of snow on the ground in the Dakota's on April 1st. There might be a lot of prevent plant acres again this year. The ray of hope in that is that the snow came early and stayed deep. So the frost isn't as deep as you'd expect. When the snow melts, the ground could be ready to go soon thereafter. Another issue I see with the numbers is the hundreds of thousands of acres going to solar and wind farm across the nation. Add in urban sprawl and the number of acres taken out of production is much higher. In the few counties in the area we farm, we are figuring close to 50,000 acres. Wharton county alone has lost 20,000 acres to solar farms, and it is one of the top producers in the state. The land the green energy is consuming is insane. |
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Post by Sigurdur on Apr 2, 2023 3:24:47 GMT
Solar farms have been proposed in ND. They make zero sense.
They are subsidy gobblers.
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Post by txfarmer on Apr 2, 2023 3:36:00 GMT
I don't see why money they are planning to spend on the solar farms there couldn't be spent to get the infrastructure in place to use the natural gas being flared off in the bakken. (Of course it's just to shuffle money where THEY want it to go).
Also, all the money for green energy should be directed to safe nuclear energy imo. (Of course my opinion wouldn't matter to them).
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Post by ratty on Apr 2, 2023 4:18:42 GMT
Land use for 'renewables' .... WOW! I had no idea. Anyone know what the figure for the entire USA would be? Maybe Gates isn't intending to farm his holdings?  |
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Post by gridley on Apr 2, 2023 12:10:19 GMT
Land use for 'renewables' .... WOW! I had no idea. Anyone know what the figure for the entire USA would be? Maybe Gates isn't intending to farm his holdings? *In theory* you could grow crops in the shadows of the wind turbines. I'm sure that theory is expressed whenever wind turbines take over productive land.
In practice, I've yet to see it.
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Post by blueridgefarms on Apr 2, 2023 17:35:02 GMT
*In theory* you could grow crops in the shadows of the wind turbines. I'm sure that theory is expressed whenever wind turbines take over productive land.
In practice, I've yet to see it.
You must not have been across Iowa in the last 20 years. |
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