Ice Age Farmer
71.2K subscribers
460 photos
70 videos
3 files
2.58K links
IAF Telegram

IceAgeFarmer.com - see @iaf_resources for groups on homesteading!
Download Telegram
Back in the fall, there were 4.66 billion bushels (bb) of soybeans in this country: 525 million bushels (mb) left over from the previous year and 4.135 bb of newly grown beans.

There was no single moment in time when all the new beans were harvested out of the fields before some of the rest were being gobbled up by processing plants, but if there had been such a moment in time, those 4.66 bb would have been enough to fill the volume of 64 NFL stadiums up to the brim (or to fill all 31 actual stadiums twice — and then some).

Now (as of Dec. 1, 2020), there were only 2.93 bb of soybeans. Twenty-four stadiums’ worth of soybeans have disappeared...
Our friends at the World Economic Forum also have big plans for how to control WATER:

https://www.weforum.org/projects/global-water-initiative
You’d think rising prices would slow down sales but since everyone else is limiting exports, USA just keeps selling more and more:

via https://www.profarmer.com/index.php/strong-corn-soybean-and-cotton-sales-kick-2021
And for corn : exporting more than twice as quickly as last year - shoveling it out the door!

> Export commitments are 135% ahead of year-ago, which compares to 137% ahead last week. USDA projects exports in 2020-21 at 2.550 billion bu., up 43.4% from the previous marketing year.
Boris Johnson’s government has been warned that meat worth hundreds of thousands of pounds is going to waste at EU ports, as British exporters continue to get caught up in post-Brexit red tape problems.

It comes as photos emerged showing UK’s largest fish market in Peterhead largely deserted, as the industry struggles with an export slump caused by customs delays. “What a sad sight – like a ghost town,” said the Scotland Food and Drink group.

Meanwhile, Northern Ireland secretary Brandon Lewis claimed that empty shelves in Northern Ireland were due to coronavirus “challenges” – and not because of Brexit

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/brexit-news-latest-boris-johnson-updates-live-b1789255.html