Could the war and sanctions explain the shortages of farm inputs etc?

[Guest]

yea , nothing to do with that dough head printing money till hell wouldn't have it *****

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Well, so much for that idea.
kory melby Retweeted
Oleg Levchenko
@OlegLevchenko3
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Russia #crop #protection market 70% herbicides, 20% fungicides, 10% insecticides
They feel absolute Glyphosate deficit - spring planting campaign will face 50% deficit of herbicides - info from federal size chemical distributor

[AlbertaFarmer5]

Well, so much for that idea.
kory melby Retweeted
Oleg Levchenko
@OlegLevchenko3
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6h
Russia #crop #protection market 70% herbicides, 20% fungicides, 10% insecticides
They feel absolute Glyphosate deficit - spring planting campaign will face 50% deficit of herbicides - info from federal size chemical distributor

Sorry that I keep replying to my own self, but I wanted to point something out.

I put out an idea for others to critique or agree with.

Then I kept looking for evidence to either refute or support my hypothesis.

And when the first evidence I found indicated that my theory was wrong, I promptly publicly acknowedged that I was wrong.

Just a thought for those who continually post theories and opinions, then slink away when they are proven wrong.

[Hamloc]

Watching CTV national news tonight something I don’t normally do but they had a story on how Russia is bombing agricultural infrastructure in the Ukraine. They even had a quick blurb from our clueless federal agriculture minister on how she was surprised at Russia doing this. Then they talked about country’s which depend on the Ukraine and Russia for wheat and then Sylvain Charlebois was talking about how difficult it will be to replace this lost wheat production on the world stage and possible shortages. Wheat is trading below its highs of a few days ago, not sure if stories like this will affect future trading or if the media is just late coming to the realization of the implications of what Russia is doing?!

[Old Cowzilla]

Old war tricks still in play destroy food and energy supply. Maybe a year from now it won't matter what you grow hungry people will eat it. Dark times indeed.

[Guest]

You could be right. Some false economies could very well vaporize

[shtferbrains]

You could be right. Some false economies could very well vaporize

An example of a false economy is ammonia production in Europe.

Here's what they think the solution is;

The fertilizer industry’s production processes are energy-intensive, with high levels of process emissions.
Natural gas is used as a raw material to produce ammonia, the building block for all mineral nitrogen fertilizers.

As the largest industry sector consumer of natural gas, the EU nitrogen fertilizer industry’s competitiveness is
predominantly driven by affordable and fair gas prices. Given that typically 60% to 80% of production costs are natural gas costs, it is vital that that the EU addresses the industry’s competition concerns and enables the free flow of gas at competitive prices in European gas markets.



Strong enforcement of EU competition rules, well-targeted European and local energy legislation and its consistent implementation are vital in order to achieve this objective.

A reformed WTO should include an agreement on energy outlawing unfair state price fixing and subsidisation, dual-pricing and other forms of harmful discriminatory pricing.

In relation to the EU’s own correction of unfair trade, it is imperative that the EU institutions continue to develop effective and efficient trade defence instruments able to correct structurally distorted gas prices.



So as always the EU will create high cost production then protect it with high tariffs.

Some of that ammonia production could come to Canada if we had any kind of endorsement from the federal legislators.
At this this time probably zero consideration given to Canada for investment.

[AlbertaFarmer5]

I just saw this on New Ag talk.

That doesn't sound very optimistic.
The most surprising part is 80 employees for 3,700 acres. That is one employee for every 46 acres, unless it's a typo.

[agstar77]

In an article from Reuters. Shortage of fuel. Some have scavenged fuel from abandoned Russian fuel tankers. Also fuel in ditches when rail tank cars destroyed. This can't bode well for a harvest or planting in Ukraine.