Commodity prices are global these days. If the price rises it rises for the entire planet for base commodities as those types of food can be moved around more easily than say milk or other perishable foods.
SA might experience food shortage of maize and soy due to too much rain in the free state though..... we will only really know at around April if this is going to happen.
I read somewhere that 30% of our wheat is from Russia and Ukraine.
Famines can be complex, imports and exports don't necessarily directly impact the way you would think it would.
I was just stating what I read. It's not my stats or opinion. I have nothing more than the article to back it up.
China is not going to move away from food imports, they have such bad pollution in so much of it that a lot of areas the produce has toxins in it, they probably cannot feed their entire population without it.
Wow you are right, seems we've fallen that much we cannot even supply our own wheat anymore.
Thanks to covid the pollution is gone.
Hey I buy Russian Rye bread from Checkers, taste better than the German Rye although I haven't been able to get a word never mind a sentence from either.
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SA Farmers sell wheat as per the international price of wheat. SA Food Producers have to buy at that price or the farmers simply sell to international buyers. The problems is international buyers have deeper pockets.
It was a few actually. EC, WC, FS, L, MP, NW and NC were largely untouched. Large parts of GP were fine as well.
Looking at some threads here, they all must be dead by now so I am guessing No?Did these farmers ever make it to Russia?
15 000 white SA farmers may relocate to Russia
RT reports that a group of SA farmers has visited Russia looking at moving there to escape land expropriation and farm murders.
Both right and wrong. A ship discharging 50 000 tons of wheat in port at this very moment. From where?
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