Farmer @ Johnsongrass, TX said:
Touchless - your location is -12 with a Real Feel of -5...? I'll take that. .... Maybe I read that wrong. We are -4 with a Real Feel of -19. We are warmer today, yea! Yesterday, north wind here was a real mfer.
ProgN - Forgot to mention in that agriculture writeup yesterday that Europe instituted/legislated/whatever law taking a lot of ag production land back into a natural prairie setting for ecological reasons of saving the environment. By 2030, Europe, specifically UK, will be a net importer of food. They have never been in that position before. Today, surplus food goes mostly to China. There will be a real battle for who gets fed properly in the next few years. Things are changing. Maybe 59South has picked up more or better info on this topic to comment.
AMZN, if they decide to split the shares tonight, I'd be okay with that!
Lastly,....Fed aint gonna raise no rates.
Not my area of expertise at all. But the UK is already down that road with energy. Almost impossible for new offshore developments in North Sea. Every time it even comes up, it causes a huge political sh*t storm. They're selling fools gold to the local herd that wind and solar can fully replace O&G for UK energy demand and replace all the North Sea and manufacturing jobs that will be lost creating a 'Britain is back to lead the world into the next century' utopia. And oddly enough, the Scottish and Welsh lots seem to be pushing harder than the English.
As far food goes, Brexit has really changed the supply chain over the past few years. Less mainland Euro, more local British, plus more American food coming in. So I'm a bit surprised and haven't heard anything about 'repurposing' farm land in the name of environmental virtue signaling. Actually anecdotally it seems more 'buy British' and support our local farmers type agenda. But that could just be Brexit backer political propaganda to get votes.
And then there's the drama around the fishing industry. There's a large contingent for supporting fishing in a sustainable and responsible way, and then there's the anti fishing contingent, and then there's the fighting over EU fishing boats fishing British waters. British drama is the norm.
I meant this response to be about 2-3 sentences but got carried away. Not really the forum but does have global market impact. You chaps need to come over so we can have these conversations at the pub!