EU food politics must stop if food supply runs short again

There are some thing you can be sure of — such as death, taxes and weather.

EU food politics must stop if food supply runs short again

In terms of the weather, you can be sure it will average out in the medium term or longer term — probably the thought that is keeping many farmers in Ireland this summer from giving up and turning their backs on the business.

It is a basic rule also for the speculators whose short and long trades total up to the equivalent of 46 times the world’s wheat production every year on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.

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