Canada burning up

[glasshouse]

Crops are dying

 

[Ffermer Bach]

The world seems to be becoming a dangerous place, thinking about the fire in British Columbia and it makes sense after hearing about that, that heat would be a problem to crops there too.

All the more reason, for our politicians to make sure they "throw UK agriculture under a bus" and decide we can buy all our food needs from abroad!

 

[glasshouse]

The world seems to be becoming a dangerous place, thinking about the fire in British Columbia and it makes sense after hearing about that, that heat would be a problem to crops there too.

All the more reason, for our politicians to make sure they "throw UK agriculture under a bus" and decide we can buy all our food needs from abroad!

The morons havent joined the dots that a disrupted climate leads to crop failures and famine
But wont wild flowers be tasty

 

[hoff135]

Whether due to man made climate change or not. The realities of adding 80 million extra people to the planet every year and their demands on limited resources are about to hit home and hit hard.

 

[egbert]

Crops are dying

not a whole lot of cropping in that corner of Canada. More timber than crops.

 

[Bald Rick]

Pakistan (third biggest dairy producers in the world) are recording temperatures over 50 deg C.

 

[AndrewM]

Just need to get over the hump of population in about 2060 then it's downhill from there. Africa is about the only place now with a growing population

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Northern USA is worse

 

[DrWazzock]

The world seems to be becoming a dangerous place, thinking about the fire in British Columbia and it makes sense after hearing about that, that heat would be a problem to crops there too.

All the more reason, for our politicians to make sure they "throw UK agriculture under a bus" and decide we can buy all our food needs from abroad!

I’d be making sure I had enough grain and water to last a full annual production cycle if I was the government. Otherwise we could have a similar crisis to the pandemic.
Food production is looking more and more vulnerable and precarious. Time to build reserve capacity and buffering to get through bad years. Too late when the cupboard is bare.

 

[JP1]

Just hope we don't get the tail end of this later

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Just hope we don't get the tail end of this later

I hope we do….November to January

 

[Bald Rick]

I’d be making sure I had enough grain and water to last a full annual production cycle if I was the government. Otherwise we could have a similar crisis to the pandemic.
Food production is looking more and more vulnerable and precarious. Time to build reserve capacity and buffering to get through bad years. Too late when the cupboard is bare.

But government has been told that we can be like Singapore and import all our food ....

Farmers are soooo yesterday, dahling

 

[JP1]

I hope we do….November to January

Our luck would be yet another dry Spring and early Summer. You never recover from that all year down here

 

[ollie989898]

But government has been told that we can be like Singapore and import all our food ....

Farmers are soooo yesterday, dahling

The UK could import all it's food. Easily. The cost and logistics mind would make your head spin.

The Earth is a huge place. Whilst parts of North America are experiencing very high temperatures and drought, you can bet your last Rolo that people outside of the affected areas or in other countries are seeing record growth and eyeing huge yields.

 

[Bald Rick]

The UK could import all it's food. Easily.

Yes we could .... but what happens if an exporting country says No?

 

[ollie989898]

Yes we could .... but what happens if an exporting country says No?

Buy it from somewhere else? There are very few goods supplied by one only country.

 

[Bald Rick]

Buy it from somewhere else? There are very few goods supplied by one only country.

Yes but you’d be held by the balls and given a mighty squeeze.

IIRC it was Gormless Gordon Brown who suggested that importing was fine if you can afford it.

May be the great British public should be happy to dip in to their pockets a bit deeper and support their own farmers?

 

[Old apprentice]

Yes we could .... but what happens if an exporting country says No?

That will hapen when things get tight a few more years to go yet.

 

[ollie989898]

Yes but you’d be held by the balls and given a mighty squeeze.

IIRC it was Gormless Gordon Brown who suggested that importing was fine if you can afford it.

May be the great British public should be happy to dip in to their pockets a bit deeper and support their own farmers?

The world market prices for food are what they are. Either you pay up or you don't buy it. Quite simple. The public are a mixed bunch, some seem willing to pay a premium for whatever reason they might do so. Others just buy whatever seems to be cheap at the time. In reality this has been the case for decades, no good worrying about it.

 

[glasshouse]

not a whole lot of cropping in that corner of Canada. More timber than crops.

Saskatchewan is all crops
I said burning up
Not actually burning