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>It is a crucial source of wheat Wheat? I’m to believe we can’t grow our own wheat?

• barry-cotter 5y ago
  If supply falls prices rise. This is true even if a country is completely self-sufficient. World oil prices determine the price of oil in Norway just as world prices for lamb and mutton determine the price of those meats in New Zealand.
• bryanrasmussen 5y ago
  https://www.card.iastate.edu/iowa_ag_review/summer_08/article1.aspx https://www.card.iastate.edu/iowa_ag_review/summer_08/articl... because biofuel production increases, due to governmental incentives in part, food grain production goes down. on edit: I believe this article will probably also make some connections https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30681639 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30681639 although have not gone into yet, David Frum arguing to decrease ethanol subsidies as they help Putin.
• randomdata 5y ago
  1. With some climate consideration, to get the yields you typically want to seed it in the fall, so unless you have a time machine it's a little late to be thinking about growing wheat now for a lot of regions. 2. Protein content is quite sensitive to the climate the wheat is grown in, so assuming you want breads and pastas rather than pastries there are even more challenges in front of you. 3. An acre planted in wheat is an acre not planted in something else, so even if you overcome all of other issues you're just pushing the problem onto another crop.
• deleted 5y ago
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