Posted on Apr 14, 2022
As the war in Ukraine continues, so does the threat to a global food crisis
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NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme, about the ongoing food insecurity problem in Ukraine during the war.
NPR's Ari Shapiro speaks with David Beasley, executive director of the World Food Programme, about the ongoing food insecurity problem in Ukraine during the war.
As the war in Ukraine continues, so does the threat to a global food crisis
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Food/Chow
Farming
Agriculture
Ukraine
Russia
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So we are using corn that feeds people and cattle to make gas? We need fertilizer to grow corn and it is in short supple and expensive. Oh, fertilizers come from petroleum, something else we are short on thanks to Obama.
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LTC David Brown
PV2 Larry Sellnow - if you look at oil production in the US by year you will notice a large decline between 2019 and 2020. The US doubled the oil imported from Russia during this period helping to fund Putin’s war machine. https://tradingeconomics.com/united-states/crude-oil-production
United States Crude Oil Production - March 2022 Data - 1950-2021 Historical
Crude Oil Production in the United States decreased to 11371 BBL/D/1K in January from 11567 BBL/D/1K in December of 2021. Crude Oil Production in the United States averaged 7610.85 BBL/D/1K from 1950 until 2022, reaching an all time high of 12860 BBL/D/1K in November of 2019 and a record low of 3974 BBL/D/1K in September of 2008. This page provides the latest reported value for - United States Crude Oil Production - plus previous releases,...
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LTC David Brown
PV2 Larry Sellnow - Good for your family. My daughters family has been farming about 100 years. He uses chicken litter and cow manure for hay for cattle. You have got to be very care with food products. My daughters father in law leased some acreage to a fellow growing cabbage. The guy always had his dog with him. The dog crapped at the edge of the cabbage field. The guy leasing the farm land had to destroy 5 acres because an FDA inspector found it.
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LTC David Brown
PV2 Larry Sellnow - Biden was in office starting in 20, that is when oil production dropped and Russian imports increased. https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.net/charts/united-states-crude-oil-production.png?s=unitedstacruoilpro&v= [login to see] 09V20220312&ismobile=1&w=400&h=250&lbl=0&d1=20170420
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LTC David Brown
PV2 Larry Sellnow - here is a chart of Russian imports. https://www.eia.gov/dnav/pet/hist/LeafHandler.ashx?n=pet&s=mttim_nus-nrs_1&f=a
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