Dear sweet people ,I think that if we stop the panic and refrain from talking down the ability of farmers to come to the rescue and produce more food we will all sleep easier in our beds.Forget the machinations of speculators and look hard at the reality.The southern part of Africa was,and will be again,the breadbasket of that continent just as soon as Mugabe is sidelined.This will be an enormous contribution to world stocks.The African love-affair with the Chinese is coming to an end and that bit of colonialism by our red friends will soon be over.A reduction in the supply of cheap raw materials will not be good for the Chinese economy.I dread to think of how little of the farmland in Europe is in "set-aside" but it can be brought back into productivity if common sense ever comes back into fashion.If you think back to a thread in our forum some weeks back you may remember a bit about charcoal as a soil enhancer and its potential to improve yields.Well ,it seems that the prospects are even better as new research into "Biochar" uncovers its benefits.
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