Dunno about that, but I’m not great at economics. Seems to me that if people outside the country stop buying our food, the prices for that food here should drop pretty dramatically when they try and dump what they’ve earmarked for export here instead. The farmers are still screwed, but I ‘think’ we’re fine since we’re kinda the breadbasket of the world.?
Coffee and tea on the other hand xD Yeah, we can’t grow that.
The US imports more food then exports, in 2023 imports exceeded exports by $21 billion.
Edit: I like your optimistic view though. Realistically though you guys are going to go through a very rough time. This is not going to be as simple as well we just won’t send it overseas, because you guys rely a lot on imports with Mexico, Canada and China being your top importers of various foods and agricultural products.
Are we, though? As far as I can tell from the stats, we’re going to have a whole lot of surplus corn and meat, and not much else. And that’s assuming we’ll be able to feed the livestock, but hopefully we have enough domestic corn and soy to cover ourselves.
I see we searched the same source xD. I found this graph that shows the particulars. (Not sure why it’s not taking you there. Working on it but you can copy the link.)
If you like light to medium roasts you can easily roast your own at home with a decent air popper. A decent one will set you back about $25 if you don’t bargain-hunt. I paid $18 for mine.
You can get good green coffee for around $5 - $12 a pound. You can roast a pound in about an hour. If you don’t drink gallons a day it saves a lot of money.
I better go to Costco and buy as many canned foods as possible huh?
Dunno about that, but I’m not great at economics. Seems to me that if people outside the country stop buying our food, the prices for that food here should drop pretty dramatically when they try and dump what they’ve earmarked for export here instead. The farmers are still screwed, but I ‘think’ we’re fine since we’re kinda the breadbasket of the world.?
Coffee and tea on the other hand xD Yeah, we can’t grow that.
If current solutions continue, they’ll dispose of all the food before they’ll consider using it to feed the poor.
The US imports more food then exports, in 2023 imports exceeded exports by $21 billion.
Edit: I like your optimistic view though. Realistically though you guys are going to go through a very rough time. This is not going to be as simple as well we just won’t send it overseas, because you guys rely a lot on imports with Mexico, Canada and China being your top importers of various foods and agricultural products.
Are we, though? As far as I can tell from the stats, we’re going to have a whole lot of surplus corn and meat, and not much else. And that’s assuming we’ll be able to feed the livestock, but hopefully we have enough domestic corn and soy to cover ourselves.
I see we searched the same source xD. I found this graph that shows the particulars.
(Not sure why it’s not taking you there. Working on it but you can copy the link.)
You could get a years worth of green coffee beans right now before prices reflect the change. Learn to roast, it can be done cheap.
Just to add on to this comment:
If you like light to medium roasts you can easily roast your own at home with a decent air popper. A decent one will set you back about $25 if you don’t bargain-hunt. I paid $18 for mine.
You can get good green coffee for around $5 - $12 a pound. You can roast a pound in about an hour. If you don’t drink gallons a day it saves a lot of money.