Growing crops is only a small part of food cost 3x production costs are meaningless.
Why do you think small time farmers have all gone out of business, you need enormous economies of scale to make a profit.
Or get in to one of those direct field to consumer schemes.
Most of the money is tacked on later down in the production line.
1 tonne of wheat is $250
a loaf of bread is $2.5
you can make ~750000 loafs of bread out of that tonne of wheat
So even if that tonne of wheat suddenly costs $1000 to produce...
The fertilizer thing shouldn't be that much of a problem either if it's used wisely.
Ban the use of chemical fertilizers for domestic use and that demand is more than halved.
Growing crops is only a small part of food cost 3x production costs are meaningless. Why do you think small time farmers have all gone out of business, you need enormous economies of scale to make a profit. Or get in to one of those direct field to consumer schemes.
Most of the money is tacked on later down in the production line. 1 tonne of wheat is $250 a loaf of bread is $2.5 you can make ~750000 loafs of bread out of that tonne of wheat So even if that tonne of wheat suddenly costs $1000 to produce...
The fertilizer thing shouldn't be that much of a problem either if it's used wisely. Ban the use of chemical fertilizers for domestic use and that demand is more than halved.