Novus wrote:If those farmers started growing again then fertilizer prices would go up and the output of other farmers mostly from the third world would decrease. That adds the additional cost of transportation to food grown in Europe to be sold in the third world. It is for certain we have reached peak food.
Homesteader wrote:...the glaciers that feed the major rivers in Southeast Asia are melting at a rate of 7% annually. They will be gone in 20 years. The rivers included the Yangtze, the Mekong and others. It looks like a third or more of the world's population is simply going to run out of water...
SoothSayer wrote:However are there any key crops, feeds, fertilisers, pesticides etc which the UK simply MUST have?
Leanan wrote:Well, so much for the plan to make ethanol from corn and other crops...
I would have thought using Corn for Ethanol was the reason for the stock fall.
Jack wrote:At some point, individuals and nations will have to decide who survives and who doesn't.
Phebagirl wrote:...I get a big kick out of the folks that think they can do the Little House on the Prairie scenario as our consumer society unwinds.
Zardoz wrote:Phebagirl wrote:...I get a big kick out of the folks that think they can do the Little House on the Prairie scenario as our consumer society unwinds.
Very few of them have even the vaguest idea of what farming is like.
Phebagirl wrote:Synthetic nitrogen fertilizer is vital even to raise hay for cattle.
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) says hay stocks are down 30 per cent on last year and are at their lowest level since 1950.
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