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onthehoof

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Two Tone

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Will a million German ha replace lost Ukrainian ha ? More ? Less ? I don't know.
Either way, the price of straw will have to go up.... :ROFLMAO:
I doubt it would even touch the sides. Ukraine is 2.5times the size of France and is known as the bread basket of Europe.
Ukraine and Russia are responsible for 30% of the entire worlds exportable wheat crop.
The Russian took a look at the state of their wheat coming out of the Winter as stated that it is the worst they have ever known!
So 1 million ha of extra German crops might help Germany’s trade deficit and provide some food for its population, but is pretty insignificant as to the rest of the World.
However, despite being Top Dog of the EU, it does show that Germany is taking its own Food security seriously.
Whereas in the UK, our Government is asleep to the situation and continues to advocate taking land out of food production!
 

PostHarvest

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Can I make a minor correction? Ukraine is a similar size to France - or at least it was the last time that I was there. According to the World Bank, Ukraine has 413,000 squ kms of arable land compared to 286,000 squ kms in France. But yes you are correct that it is a major exporter of maize, wheat, barley and sunflower. Its ports are also main export routes for grain from Russia and Kazakhstan.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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