>>Message for liberals :)
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>>https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-15/a-radical-plan-to-slow-climate-change-eat-less-meat
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>Well we need to do something -- check out this pending horrific disaster!
>https://www.npr.org/2018/10/16/657778326/climate-change-could-make-beer-prices-double-study-says

Absolutely BS - the article not you. The people who did this "study" may know a lot about climate change but I doubt their knowledge of barley or grain markets in general. They probably couldn't tell you the difference between 2 row and 6 row and hulled and hull-less and high protein and "plump" varieties and which ones are used for beer. The average cost of the malt in beer is less than 10% of the total cost so the price of the malt would have to increase about 10 fold for the malt for the price of the final product to double. Last year the average price of barley was $4.68//bu.. Barley used for animal feed- about 25% of total- usually sells for about 85% of the sell price of corn. Most of the large brewers contract for and pay a premium for growing their selected varieties(usually a proprietary well protected secret). So, just say the brewers are paying $7/bu. Personally, I never heard anyone claiming more than a $2/bu. premium(and complaining about the premium over feed barley decreasing) and that was after a few glasses of "processed" barley. In either case the price of barley would have to go to at least $46.80/bu. for the price of beer to double. Don't hold your breath! The price of barley is greatly influenced by the price of corn and spring wheat. If you had land that you could grow corn @200 bu./ac. and $3.80/bu. or barley @70 bu./ac.(less production cost) and even $14/bu. which would you choose?