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It isn't so much production as transport. We may have a lot of wheat, but getting it shipped is way more expensive and ship into long beach are only on time abo
by downrightmike 5y ago
It isn't so much production as transport. We may have a lot of wheat, but getting it shipped is way more expensive and ship into long beach are only on time about 10% of the time, pre covid, they were 90% on time. And it is a lot easier to get goods into smaller towns and farms etc, than it will be to pick up a bunch of shipments from rural areas.
- derbOac 5y agoThis is related to something on my mind since I read about the impact of the Ukraine conflict on wheat: will the economic impacts of wheat deficits be equally spread worldwide? I wondered about it because I am lucky I suppose to live in an area with a fair amount of local wheat production. During the pandemic I noticed that the locally produced wheat never really disappeared even though it was more expensive to begin with; the bigger brands totally disappeared from the shelves. I could see this as making a bigger impact though, because it's affecting worldwide stock to a bigger extent, at the more basic level of production rather than supply chains per se. But if the local wheat isn't really going anywhere anyway, maybe it doesn't matter. Between this and the pandemic it seems like smaller, local production is being rewarded more, at least where I am. Chains struggled but smaller local shops thrived.