Corn prices rose 5% on pessimistic data from the Pro Farmer US crop tour
https://ukragroconsult.com/en/news/corn-prices-rose-5-on-pessimistic-data-from-the-pro-farmer-us-crop-tour/
Uzbekistan for the first time in history imported American soybeans
https://ukragroconsult.com/en/news/uzbekistan-for-the-first-time-in-history-imported-american-soybeans/
Wheat, feed corn, and soybeans all did well here this year. Debbie says we're going to see a whole bunch of big, shiny, new pickup trucks & 'Sunday-Go-To-Meeting' SUVs around here this fall.
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-62982332
https://i.redd.it/tbofqn0r8fp91.jpg
Ha ha (sort of). I saw that - Suddenly the Germans have lost their hatred for nuclear power and fracking. Maybe that's a wash for climate though.
In the long run, it's probably good. The Bush, Obama, Trump and Biden administrations all tried to get the Germans not to move forward on pipelines (Nordstream 1 then 2) and the Germans said the US was 1) paranoid about the threat of Putin and 2) just trying to boost our sales of LNG abroad.
Now, keeping the nuclear online and fracking is a response to keeping the lights on long term as they kill the Nordstream 2 project. The thing is, pipelines are costly and vulnerable. Once they build the infrastructure to get that energy elsewhere, there will be no need for pipeline. It will never get built.
Some assert that Putin knew this and was trying to force the issue, because he knew he only had a window of a few years when he could credibly threaten the West with cutting off gas. Now that he's played that card, there's no second card.
> pipelines are costly and vulnerable.
Ditto for nuclear power plants. The Ukraine war has taught us that immobile nuclear assets are -in fact- a liability when in the conflict zone. How many times now has the UN rushed to protect them now? With hypersonic missiles and/or once sci-fi 'tungsten rods from space' they are a mushroom cloud ready to happen.