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All visa requirements, voefd, covid, everything, and were still keeping people out? >> ive had years of experience dealing with the laws, regulations, policies on immigration, border control. it is a nightmare. no one fully understands it. primarily we worry about the uks u.s. mexican border. that is where a lot of the labor force that grows our crops. does construction. runs restaurants. law abiding people. and now weve had other, you we need to take into account. the afghans, to some extent th...

Food producers around the world. we just seem to be suffering all kinds of various supply setbacks. whether it was argentina with its drought or very dry weather in the us and canadian wheat growing areas, brazilian trouts, all the big grain producing countries, for some reason or other ended up with below average crops —— brazilian trouts. the supply side is already very tight. on top of that, we had very strong rising energy prices and crude oil prices, which meant the cost of shipping all...

What american people want us to do. so theres more we can do but not everything that president zalewski wants. well, when you talk about putting pressure on putin, general, let me ask you what you make of these reports that the pentagon saying that putin is perhaps being misled about the failures of his forces in ukraine? >> well, i think its true that the clearly theres misinformation happening on all sides, but the kremlin im sure does not want to admit to its people or to its forces how badly...

Is just compounding the problem. >> about a week ago, the executive vice president of the european commission warned that the war in ukraine was about to trigger a global food shortage. here he is. >> russias war against ukraine has affected the world in ways that we -- many different ways that we may have not imagined at first. along with surging energy prices, we have to think urgently about food, whether everyone can get it, and whether they can afford it. >> well, the answer to those two que...

Example, that depend on russian fertilizer to grow their own crops are also seeing their supply chains disrupted and could potentially have some fallout there. so, no, we couldnt have seen all of these things coming. um, but, you know, if youre putin presumably you did. you knew what the potential fallout could be of -- of this major disruption in, you know, cost in terms of peoples lives, obviously directly in the region. but then, these knock-on economic and -- and hunger-related hardships tha...

So do you see an immediate impact on everything we buy in the grocery store, things we set on the table? >> 100%. ukraine is one of the bread baskets of the world. in fact, the last time you saw a bad harvest in the ukraine, you also saw a major global food shortage that actually resulted in food riots in t22 countries, the arab spring. that reshaped the entire middle east. what im hearing talking to american farmers in places like kansas is that the shortages coming out of this bar and also the...

Policy from the white house. a policy whose intended effect is still not clear. what is the point of this? if theres a good point, people will put up with it. why dont you tell us what that point is. fertilizer bills are expected to jump around 50% just this year and they could go higher. they say they are already seen them go much higher. watch. >> michael andersons family has been funded wheat, soybeans, and corn since the 1950s. he expects him to throw a curveball, but not a war. >> all of th...

Out if the worlds fourth biggest oil producer can help solve our energy shortage. wherever in the world you arejoining me from, once again, big hello and welcome to the show. you know, the cost of food, its rising and its certainly been noticed in shopping baskets all around the world. prices were already heading upwards because of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic but then came a war in ukraine. what happens inside that countrys borders is also being felt outside of them. why? because its ...

Food price inflation here at home takes off. around the world they will have serious implications. when wheat was going straight up in price 12 years ago. that helped set off the arab spring which led to regime change in some of those countries. you could have the same thing happen in the next 12 months to two years. but in the immediate future food prices will take off. brian: people are abstaining in he equip because they need russias imports. >> you cant grow vigorous crops without fertilizer...

For starting field work is the first ten days of march. and planting needs to be fully completed in the last week of april. he added some of these fields are likely to be mined or contained unexploded ordinance," which he says will need to be removed before crops are grown. that would make coping without the food grown in ukraines fields just one more long—term problem when it comes to the worlds food supplies. in the case of food prices, in some parts of the world, especially, for instance, i...