Comment on What does everyone think of the economic outlook for the next year?
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 15 hours ago
I’m pretty gloomy based on
- Pax Americana destabilizing/collapsing; wouldn’t be surprised to see some minor parties make a move
- Hormuz will remain closed, because USA is anti-diplomatic and Iran has nothing to lose
- AI spending will continue, but the money will start to need to be real, and the firings will continue until AI wins
- El Niño will further disrupt food security
- global warming will disrupt everything
oeuf@slrpnk.net 13 hours ago
Which foods do you think will see the highest inflation?
iocase@lemmy.zip 5 hours ago
Most modern cereals are bred to respond to nitrogen well for obvious reasons, and they also happen to be fodder for meat and animal products. Flour, rice, meat, eggs .etc. anything that grows in a grain based feedlot or is grain finished.
Rapeseed should go up in price too. Same with soy. Both of these are high protein high oil fodder crops.
Nitrogen fertillizer turns into protein pretty directly. So the higher the protein content of what we’re talking about, the more fertillizer you need to give it the building blocks it needs to make amino acids into proteins.
I bet farmers will rotate into legumes next year to help replenish their soil and to get better yields for animal fodder. Same with beans if you can grow them, although that can need ammonia too even if it’s less than soy or canola.
oeuf@slrpnk.net 2 hours ago
That’s very interesting about the relationship between nitrogen and protein.
CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 11 hours ago
Foods that need fertilizer, eat fertilized crops, or are transported.