Severe heatwave: drought and wildfires destroy Russian harvest
more food doom....
Posted on July 31, 2012
July 31, 2012 – MOSCOW – Russia is currently in the grips of an extremely strong heat wave. City and town residents are suffocating from the sweltering heat. For example, it is about 30 degrees in Moscow with prospects of the thermometer going up in the next few days. The heat wave situation is aggravated by wild fires producing clods of poisonous smoke. The wood rich Siberian taiga near Krasnoyarsk is fighting 83 fires on the territory of 12.130 hectares. As for rural Russia, that only last year was the world’s third-biggest grain producer, it suffers colossal damages. It threats to destroy a significant part of the crops. If last year’s harvest amounted to 94 million tons, this year it is a predicted at 80 to 85 million.
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On the other hand Oleg Sukhanov, head of the market analysis unit at the Institute for Agricultural Market Studies, thinks that Russia may gather in only 77 million tons of grain. And, Sukhanov said, “that is not the worst-case scenario.” His forecast is worrisome as Russia’s annual domestic consumption amounts to 67 million to 72 million tons. As is expected this year Russia may consume up to 68.5 million tons of grain and so, considering the remaining stocks from previous years, Sukhanov’s institute colleagues are putting the Russian grain export potential this year at a mere 13.5 million tons.
_____________________________________ There is no use removing doubts one by one. If we clear one doubt another doubt will arise and there will be no end of doubts. But, if by seeking the doubter, the doubter is found to be really non-existent, then all doubts will cease. -- Ramana Maharshi
You have to keep breaking your heart until it opens.
Re: Severe heatwave: drought and wildfires destroy Russian harvest
56% of the land mass in the continental U.S. ("the lower 48") is suffering from severe drought conditions.
18 American states where corn is produced are included in the area worst impacted by drought and high heat indices.
My friend who ives on a farm in Indiana told me that the lack of rain and extreme heat hit the corn in the field just as it was "tassling" which means there was little to no pollination that occurred.
And now we hear that Russia is experiencing similar problems with their corn crop.
We are all sooooooooo f*cked.
Can you even imagine the chaos that would erupt around the world if/when, in the not so distant future, neither the U.S. or Russia exported any grain?
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