Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: Welcome to 536

Re:Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: Welcome to 536 by trhway on Thursday March 10, 2022 @07:47PM (#30634760)

>One has to wonder whether modern agriculture is no longer as affected by these kinds of changes

2011 Arab Spring <- bread/wheat prices <- 2010 wildfires in Russia destroying significant share of wheat harvest

>or whether the war in Ukraine is just a sign of things to come.

Ukraine wheat production most probably will be significantly less this year.

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Re:Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: Welcome to 536 by irrational on Thursday March 10, 2022 @07:51PM (#30634789)

Well, the farmers have lots of tanks for farm work now.

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Re:Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: Welcome to 536 by totetsu on Thursday March 10, 2022 @10:10PM (#30635663)

But are you locked into needing a Russian military certified technician to repair them?

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Re:Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: Welcome to 536 by jonah on Thursday March 10, 2022 @11:33PM (#30636216)

Well, they're not made by John Deere and the farmers can probably get spare parts in their neighbor's field.

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Re:Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: Welcome to 536 by askonomm on Thursday March 10, 2022 @10:26PM (#30635782)

Farmers are a resourceful bunch. Most I've met can fix just about anything.

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Re:Volcanoes, plague, famine and endless winter: Welcome to 536 by rossdavidh on Friday March 11, 2022 @09:57AM (#30640671)

...mostly non-functional.

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