What will people eat? What will animals eat? Damage to corn and sunflowers is huge in Hungary...

submitted by In-the-clouds from self.WorldNews

Translated from source: https://444.hu/2022/07/14/tobb-szazezer-hektar-kukorica-es-napraforgo-veszett-karba-az-alfoldon-a-sulyos-aszaly-miatt

"The damage is huge, 300,000 hectares of corn and 200,000 hectares of sunflowers were lost. There are places where the crop is simply impossible to harvest."

Prepare for famines now.

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[–]jet199 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Animals could eat straw.

Oh wait, because all the greedy European farmers switched to dwarf wheat, which was bred for desert countries, we now have a straw shortage.

Go paleo and I guess eat more fish and other wild caught animals.

[–]grassfed 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Grass

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Cattle are being culled all over the world because of a lack of grass.

[–]iamonlyoneman 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

I can't help but notice Russia is having a relatively cool summer, right in the heart of their agricultural region.

This weather cycle is setting up the russkies to be a dominant player in the world food market for the next year.

People will eat Russian food. And the west will come begging and pay high prices to get it.

[–]NuclearBadger 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Considering how fat most of the countries are, I think it doesn't matter that much, because we clearly make too much food at present.

[–]xpat 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Farmers here in Macedonia (Greece) have been doing very well with sunflower.

[–]In-the-clouds[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Hhmm. It's ironic then that news reports say fights have broken out over cooking oil and supermarkets in Greece have limited cooking oil purchases.

Before the war, Ukraine was the world’s largest exporter of sunflower oil. The conflict has now paralyzed harvests and left many nations with limited stocks of edible oil and soaring prices for what’s left[...]

Source: https://agfax.com/2022/05/03/a-quarter-of-sunflower-oil-has-vanished-brazil-eyes-tropical-wheat-fertilizer-problems-persist/