Interesting graphic, it’d be interesting to read about what policies drove wheat production over the years. Was it investment in irrigation infrastructure, importing fertilizer, government subsidies, or ….?
Australia: nearly all grain for export is grown in Western Australia, in a section that is about 1/6th of the state, making those numbers even more remarkable.
Australia's wheat production is mainly in arid areas. It is highly seasonal dependent, right amount of rain at just the right time. That said there is no shortage of land so potentially the crop can be very large.
Oh the '80s, when agribusiness was being paid to NOT grow food. Nice grift. Kinda like today when they're being paid to grow maize to turn into ethanol as a gasoline additive. Problem is, it takes more petroleum energy to grow, process, and transport the ethanol than it gives back in energy.
Interesting graphic, it’d be interesting to read about what policies drove wheat production over the years. Was it investment in irrigation infrastructure, importing fertilizer, government subsidies, or ….?
Look up "green revolution."
Australia: nearly all grain for export is grown in Western Australia, in a section that is about 1/6th of the state, making those numbers even more remarkable.
Australia's wheat production is mainly in arid areas. It is highly seasonal dependent, right amount of rain at just the right time. That said there is no shortage of land so potentially the crop can be very large.
According to other online sources, Russia is 1, EU is 2 and Canada is 3
Source and year?
This is not believable. In the late 1980's Saudi Arabia exported more wheat than the USSR??
And hong kong the same as Britain in the 60s, where did they grow it, in plant pots?
They might have been used as trading ports by big countries to export things to the other side during Cold war, so the number is a bit misleading.
@@Warfire00 Hee hee!
@@orionmedivh5859 But this just makes it mindless throwing around of numbers, and undermines confidence in the exercise.
@@whaddoiknow6519 I wouldn't take a random channel too seriously.
Oh the '80s, when agribusiness was being paid to NOT grow food. Nice grift. Kinda like today when they're being paid to grow maize to turn into ethanol as a gasoline additive. Problem is, it takes more petroleum energy to grow, process, and transport the ethanol than it gives back in energy.
It takes 1.2 gallons of fossil fuel to make 1 gallon of ethanol that doesn’t even have the same energy output as a gallon of gasoline.
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You know a lot of this wheat is barely fit for human consumption .
Why? Is it from China?