{"id":62053,"date":"2022-02-28T19:35:45","date_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62053"},"modified":"2022-02-28T19:35:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-01T00:35:45","slug":"post-collapse-just-what-will-we-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62053","title":{"rendered":"Post collapse, just what will we\u00a0eat\u2026..?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Post collapse, just what will we\u00a0eat\u2026..?<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Further to my post where I explained how\u00a0Australia\u2019s poor soils<\/a>\u00a0are largely incapable of growing much more than meat,\u00a0this article landed in my news feed\u2026<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s a list of what Australian farmers produce:<\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Each year, on average each Australian farmer feeds 600 people.<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Agriculture powers 1.6 million Australian jobs.<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Australian farmers manage 48 per cent of the nation\u2019s landmass.<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Cattle, wheat and whole milk are our top three commodities by value.<\/em><\/li>\n
  • More than\u00a099% of Australia\u2019s agricultural businesses are Australian owned.<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Out of the\u00a0$58.1 billion worth of food and fibre\u00a0Australian farmers produced in 2015-16\u00a077 per cent ($44.8 billion) was exported.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n
  • 6.8 million hectares of agricultural land\u00a0has been set aside by Australian farmers for conservation and protection purposes.<\/em><\/li>\n
  • Australian farmers are\u00a0among the\u00a0most self-sufficient in the world, with government support for Australian farms representing just 1% of farming income. In Norway it is 62%, Korea 49%, China 21%, European Union 19% and United States 9%.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Farm facts by commodity<\/strong><\/p>\n

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    • In total, Australian\u00a0beef\u00a0cattle farmers produce 2.5 million tonnes of beef and veal each year. Australians eat an average 26kg of beef per person, per year.\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n
    • Australians consume an average of 45.3kg of\u00a0chicken meat\u00a0per person, per year. This not only cements chicken\u2019s position as Australian consumers\u2019 favourite meat, but also makes Australia one of the largest consumers of chicken meat in the world!<\/em><\/li>\n
    • In a normal year, Australia\u2019s\u00a0cotton\u00a0growers produce enough cotton to clothe 500 million people.<\/em><\/li>\n
    • Australia produces about 3 per cent\u00a0of the world\u2019s cotton but is the fifth largest exporter, behind the USA, India, Brazil, Uzbekistan.<\/em><\/li>\n
    • Australian\u00a0dairy\u00a0farmers produce 9,539 million litres of whole milk per year with the farmgate value of milk production being $4.3 billion.<\/em><\/li>\n
    • On average, each Australian eats 3.08kg of\u00a0dried fruit per year. Total Australian dried fruit exports in 2015\u201316 totalled 5,000 tonnes and was valued at $19.4 million.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n

      \u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      Post collapse, just what will we\u00a0eat\u2026..? Further to my post where I explained how\u00a0Australia\u2019s poor soils\u00a0are largely incapable of growing much more than meat,\u00a0this article landed in my news feed\u2026 Here\u2019s a list of what Australian farmers produce: Each year, on average each Australian farmer feeds 600 people. Agriculture powers 1.6 million Australian jobs. Australian […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[41,31161,1912,31260,1536],"class_list":["post-62053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-australia","tag-damn-the-matrix","tag-food-production","tag-mike-stasse","tag-soil-fertility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62053"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62054,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62053\/revisions\/62054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}