>>>>>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
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>>>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?
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>>What would I choose? If I was a farmer I would chose marijuana @ $3,000 per pound.as everything else is tiny money compared to this crop ...
>>I have not really researched the article at all - but it seems obvious that climate change could reshape the barley and beer market - but I agree the cost of it doubling right away seems far fetched if that is based only on the barley ingredient -- but I'm sure that climate change will invoke other factors than just this....for one there are other ingredients in beer.
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>I could grow barley - if the price was right. I could also grow marijuana but I don't think I would like prison. A good friend of mine recently bought a farm that once grew marijuana or I should say grew marijuana once. Someone turned them in just before harvest. They had 320 acres so it was no small operation. Several county sheriffs and deputies resigned, one sheriff died in a strange one car accident and the government confiscated the property. That was in the 80's. The farm is a nice place that has it's own airfield, chopper pad, nav. beacons etc.

Yes well that was the 80's. Now it's legal in many states, not to mention the whole country of Canada as of a few days ago. Times a changin'.