Russia bans grain exports

[malaise]

until June. I thought they produced nothing. That is all.

[SheltieLover]

1. Some wheat to Europe.

[malaise]

2. and most of the fertilizer used on the planet

Watch grain prices rise across the globe.
Start your own compost pile and grow your own veggies

[SheltieLover]

3. Good idea!

[Demovictory9]

4. preppers are laughing at the rest of us now

[C_U_L8R]

5. Foreshadowing of long bread lines in Red Square

This is what happens when megalomaniacs take a country backwards to be 'great again'

[BeyondGeography]

7. Putin as Peter the Great

Looking more like Kim Jong-un.

[BeyondGeography]

6. Hopefully they've stockpiled plenty of German seed products

Because they probably won’t have anymore after this year.

https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/russia-ukraine-latest-news-2022-03-14/card/bayer-says-russian-seed-shipments-depend-on-peace-854mp2tqPBw6ZkhWCfVH

[CrackityJones75]

8. Well I needed to cut down on bread consumption

so there’s that.

[gab13by13]

9. 60% of Russia's exports are oil and gas.

[Igel]

11. True. But there's another 40% unaccounted for.

https://oec.world/en/profile/country/rus/

In 2019, Russia was the world's biggest exporter of Wheat ($8.14B), Semi-Finished Iron ($6.99B), Coal Tar Oil ($4.49B), Raw Nickel ($4.03B), and Nitrogenous Fertilizers ($3.05B)

That nickel is crucial for EVs. Much of the wheat winds up in India and North or East Africa. The fertilizers go worldwide--production requires a lot of energy, the raw materials are pretty much natural gas and air, and so it's easier to make the fertilizer and export it than export the energy itself.

[dweller]

10. And our mega-agribusiness monopolies will be stepping up

to plant acres and acres of amber waves of grain , right ?
RIGHT?
😐



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[Igel]

12. Since the price of wheat's increasing,

probably.

But winter wheat'll be harvested first, and that was in the ground in the fall. Winter wheat's typically more desirable for leavened breads anyway.