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32 comments on USA Grain Exports - Where to, how much?
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I wonder how much our food exports play into our political power. For example Egypt seems pretty much at the mercy of the US.
Also for people worried about the US running out of basic grains. Certainly you could have shortages because of transport issues and problems. But considering how wasteful the US diet is and how much we produce and for that matter Canada I can't see basic food supplies becoming a issue in the US anytime soon. Expensive probably but supply is more than adequate from this report.
However if you consider the Export Land model with the US in this case being in the drivers seat if we do start having problems from global warming I think we will see food exports follow the same export land model that has been developed for oil. Especially of course if you throw in biofuel production.
Thus Export Land coupled with global warming and biofuel growth does not bode well for the future of grain exports.
This is more bad news for the US. OPEC assholes don't care about feeding billions of poor people, 'Let kind-hearted Americans feed them, they are ridiculously fat and have too much money!'.
Price of oil, and therefore food will stay sky-high. The US will get the blame no matter what.
This is how the world works.
Let Saudi Arabia, Russia and China feed them.
(Now imagine Putin, Hu Jintao, and King Abdullah :D)
"If they would ..die, they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population. ... It's enough for a man to understand his own business, and not to interfere with other people's. Mine occupies me constantly. Good afternoon, gentlemen!"
Stop the cycles of dependency.
But why worry?
History has shown that the people America has kept from starving seem to have such short memories!
Well, aren't you Americans just the saviours of the world...
Ne'er do wrong...
Hans, it's a post that can best be ignored. There's an old story about an exchange between a KGB and a CIA guy. The KGB guy says to the CIA guy: you know, you Americans are much better at propaganda than we are -- the problem is, you believe your own propaganda. No one believes ours, including us.
Wow - this is a lot to digest - thanks.