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> That said regions will obviously vary. Canada is a major wheat producer. Mildly interesting number I worked out the other day: Canada produces about enough w
by Marsymars 7y ago
> That said regions will obviously vary. Canada is a major wheat producer.
Mildly interesting number I worked out the other day: Canada produces about enough wheat for 2000 Calories/day for 80 million people. (With a population of ~38m.)
- allannienhuis 7y agoAnd what percentage of an average person's calorie intake would wheat normally be? 20%? 50% seems high? So you could multiply that 80 million figure by something like 5 to get a number of people that Canadian wheat farmers feed (400 million!). Of course there's a lot of flaws with that type of math (I'm sure a significant percentage goes into animal feed, etc), but it's a fun way of thinking about the numbers. :) The vast size of the Canadian prairie wheat farms (and the relatively small number of people it takes to run them) are difficult to comprehend for a lot of people that don't live there.