Jabberwalker Jabberwalker:
I wonder how much of the grain going into Chinese cereal comes from Canada? I know that historically, they've bought a lot of barley from us. That would be the ultimate irony: Canada, the Third World raw resource provider and China, the source of all of our finished, value added goods. I wonder if we'll end up getting paid as the Africans are for their agricultural output in a few generations?
Just heard on the radio, a couple of women that are into grinding their own flour just before using it, and selling grain products. They said that Canadian hard red winter wheat is the best in the world for bread baking, but that they have trouble getting it, because it is treated as a commodity and only sold in bulk sales to flour mills. They also said that it's impossible to determine the age and provenance of a bag of flour you buy in the store.
