An occasional bad season is one thing–a wise older farmer told me a long time back that “the bad years are the price of admission.” However we’ve had a few bad seasons in a row with no end in sight.
Public impact is the problem. Right now the issues this causes are most visible to most people in “non-essential” foodstuffs. What happens when it becomes systemic and global for staple foods?
An occasional bad season is one thing–a wise older farmer told me a long time back that “the bad years are the price of admission.” However we’ve had a few bad seasons in a row with no end in sight.
Public impact is the problem. Right now the issues this causes are most visible to most people in “non-essential” foodstuffs. What happens when it becomes systemic and global for staple foods?
Here in Australia they hope for 1 in 10 to be exceptional and a few to break even. The rest are a loss to be endured.
That’s challenging, my heart goes out to them.