Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global wheat crop

Re:Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global whea... by danuker on Thursday March 31, 2022 @12:34PM (#30869197)

As a Romanian I visited Lviv a few years ago. There were some disaster potholes right past the border. It took 1 hour to go through say, 10km with a small car. Unless those roads get fixed, I expect only military or otherwise rugged trucks to be able to pass quickly. Otherwise, you'd need a lot of trucks to get a significant flow of goods.

Example:

https://www.google.com/maps/@48.0388842,22.9469939,3a,75y,33...

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Re:Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global whea... by paganel on Thursday March 31, 2022 @03:06PM (#30871068)

That's why the Russians de facto imposing a blockade on Odessa and generally speaking on the Ukrainian ports at the Black Sea is so important to them.

Also Romanian in here, from the Southern part of the country where we happen to grow lots of wheat. We're also close by the Danube, which helps a lot with transport (companies like Cargill have invested massively during the last decade in here).

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Re:Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global whea... by ncmncm on Thursday March 31, 2022 @08:34PM (#30873918)

Cargill is in the running for world's most evil corporation. Competition is stiff and enthusiastic.

Nestle? BASF/Monsanto? Exxon? CCP? Halliburton? We might not recognize the name of the leader.

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Re:Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global whea... by paganel on Friday April 01, 2022 @01:56AM (#30875546)

Probably helps that they're in private hands, which I don't know how they managed to do for so long.

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Re:Missing wheat from the war is less than 1% of global whea... by bombela on Thursday March 31, 2022 @02:16PM (#30870485)

Ah, looks barely worse than roads in the Silicon Valley. Maybe that's why everybody drives SUV and pickup truck over here.

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