March 7, 2022 29% of global wheat production comes from Russia and Ukraine. A large proportion of the Middle East and North Africa import over half of their wheat from Russia and Ukraine. Then we have fertilizer. Potash is a huge input, with Russia and Belarus as the number 2 and 3 producers globally. With … Read more
04/06/2019 Over 100 years ago Sinclair Lewis wrote “The Jungle“. While the book’s main focus was an account of the grinding poverty faced by immigrants, it painted a compelling picture of conditions in America’s meatpacking industry. It wasn’t pretty. Lewis’s book struck a nerve that prompted US President Theodore Roosevelt to appoint a commission to … Read more