Beer is going up in price!

[Robertbarlage]

Just saw on ctv beer is going up because of global warming! Lol unreal.

[LWeber]

Just saw on ctv beer is going up because of global warming! Lol unreal.

Brace yourself for beer shortages and price spikes as climate change wreaks havoc on barley crops
by Reuters

WASHINGTON -- Climate change will brew trouble for beer lovers in coming decades as it shrinks yields of barley, the top grain used to make the world's most popular alcoholic drink, a study published on Monday said.
Extreme weather events featuring both heat waves and droughts will occur as often as every two or three years in the second half of the century if temperatures rise at current rates, the study said.
Average global barley yields during extreme events are expected to drop between 3 and 17 per cent, depending on the conditions, said the study, published in the journal Nature Plants.
Less barley will mean beer shortages and price spikes. Under the hottest scenario, China will suffer the most shortages this century, followed by the United States, Germany, and Russia, it said.
Prices will spike the most in Ireland, Italy, Canada and Poland. During the extreme climate events, prices for a 500 milliliter bottle, slightly more than a pint, in Ireland will rise from about US$2.50 to US$5.00.
Dabo Guan, a professor of climate change economics at the University of East Anglia and the study's lead author, said beer issues pale in comparison to other climate induced problems, including food security, storm damage and fresh water scarcity. But the threats to a beverage people have enjoyed for thousands of years is an indicator that even consumers in developed countries cannot escape the effects of a changing planet.
"Climate change will affect all of us, not only people who are in India or African countries," Guan said.

The study says beer prices will spike the most in Ireland, Italy, Canada and Poland.
The study did not consider climate change's affects on other staple ingredients of beer such as hops.
Consumers in developed countries who want to avoid shortages would be wise to support policies reducing emissions of gases scientists blame for warming the planet, Guan said.
Last year U.S. President Donald Trump announced his intention to pull the United States out of the 2015 Paris pact on climate, doubting the extent to which human activity is warming the planet.
Many companies realize the risks of climate on barley, 17 per cent of which is used to make beer. Many countries keep emergency reserves of staple crops such as corn, rice and wheat to stave off price spikes and shortages. But most do not do so for barley, making it vulnerable to climate.
Anheuser-Busch InBev, the world's biggest brewer, said this year it would cut its greenhouse gas emissions by a quarter by 2025.
Jess Newman, the head of U.S. agronomy for Anheuser-Busch, said the company was experimenting with developing drought-resistant barley and working with farmers to reduce their need for water by, for example, encouraging them to place irrigation sprinklers closer to the ground.
"It's definitely an incremental process but we have many varieties in the pipeline," Newman said when asked how close the company was to breeding a drought-resistant barley in the United States. For several years, Anheuser-Busch has used a winter barley in Idaho that gets moisture from melting snow, cutting the need for irrigation.

Thomson Reuters 2018
Reuters | October 15, 2018 at 3:03 pm

[shtferbrains]

You heard it here first folks!

Good quality malt barley produced in late season dry harvest conditions can't be bought no matter what the bid.

[Partners]

Anyone here who had bly.. got malt..lots has been moved already.

[farmaholic]

.....someone will malt "feed" barley! They do every year.

Bwahahahahaha hahahahahaha hahaha ohhhhh bahahahahaaaaa, hahahaha, hahaha, Oooooo my sides!

[saskshafe]

So can someone else do the math for me please.
Barley causing a bottle of beer to rise 2.50
How many bottles/bushel?
Going to mean hundreds of dollars per bushel we get isn’t it???😜

[biglentil]

A bushel of barley will produce 300-500 bottles of beer depending.

[furrowtickler]

Yup , carbon tax’s will cost $30-50/ ac but the primary producer will get an extra $5/ac for good malt or any quality grain/ oilseed / pulse crop ..... yup this new math going to kill every farm and all our kids future who are interested. It will be the same with every commodity.
Time will tell but I will not be wrong if this cabin tax scam holds in place.
All to subsidize the people in
Poverty that governments and elites want to ignore ... it’s going to come from the us regardless of farm size . The elites and government officials will continue their way of jet setting and absolutely wasting tax payers money in front of our eyes 👀 regardless of their carbon footprint 👣.
For those drinking the koolaid .. your grandkids will kick your ass for being so stupid while the wealthy laugh their ass off and run our next generation into the Ground as slaves .

[furrowtickler]

Oh, and the “climate” will never change what’s its doing due to a carbon tax .... if you believe that Santa will be down your chimney on December 25 .....

[seldomseen]

The only time barley is good on my farm is when its hot and dry so I think their theory is flawed.