Russian Economy General News: #11

GarryB wrote:Even the richest countries in the world struggle with urbanisation and the migration of young people from rural to urban areas looking for a social life and a job off the farm they grew up on...

It is not even a wealth/poverty thing, it is a social problem that bites hard when it comes to harvest times... but it is ironic in that it mimics western society where a small group of land owners need people to work their land to get the best productivity from it, but are not prepared to pay a decent wage to make their products more competitive. The result is often even their own children don't want to work for them... you get the Luke Skywalker effect...

Family farms have been dying out for decades in the USA and Canada. As you note, urbanization has global characteristics. Trying
to paint Russian urbanization as Putin's fail is pure, unmitigated BS. But that is exactly what this "reporter" is spewing. The asswipe
should focus on Germany's problems. It has plenty.

kvs wrote:

GarryB wrote:Even the richest countries in the world struggle with urbanisation and the migration of young people from rural to urban areas looking for a social life and a job off the farm they grew up on...

It is not even a wealth/poverty thing, it is a social problem that bites hard when it comes to harvest times... but it is ironic in that it mimics western society where a small group of land owners need people to work their land to get the best productivity from it, but are not prepared to pay a decent wage to make their products more competitive. The result is often even their own children don't want to work for them... you get the Luke Skywalker effect...

Family farms have been dying out for decades in the USA and Canada.  As you note, urbanization has global characteristics.  Trying
to paint Russian urbanization as Putin's fail is pure, unmitigated BS.   But that is exactly what this "reporter" is spewing.   The asswipe
should focus on Germany's problems.  It has plenty.

Russia is doing it better imo. They are allowing companies to set up villages of their own for farming.

If the companies are not doing it quick enough or are very few inbetween, then the government should invest in such projects. Look at dead villages but rather strategic locations for good farming, and set up something similar to the free land in Siberia - offer to invest in infrastructure and utilities if companies sign up and they get the necessary people in. Get everyone to sign contracts and then boom, you got modern, good quality of life villages and companies have people to work the farms.

The workers should be subsidized (housing paid for and they pay a subsidized rent or something) while they get paid half decent. There would be more interest in farming.

Only farming now that seems to be very popular even for workers is the greenhouses. Probably cause easier, controlled temperatures and high yields and decent pay.

Kiko wrote:Russia's grain exports remain high:
https://www.agroinvestor.ru/analytics/news/34936-eksport-zerna-sokhranyaet-vysokie-tempy/

Vann7 is filling up the bathtub and cracking open a pack of razor blades

No, he will claim that without Putin the ammount of exported grain would be greater.

lyle6 wrote:

Kiko wrote:Russia's grain exports remain high:
https://www.agroinvestor.ru/analytics/news/34936-eksport-zerna-sokhranyaet-vysokie-tempy/

Grain's pretty low value though. With that amount of surplus they should be looking at dramatically expanding their livestock herds and export those instead.

Livestock demand is massive in Russia to the point they are still importing cows from other countries.

Cattle husbandry is not so simple. That is why all the beef you eat grown in the west is full of steroids and antibiotics. They
try to get the meat to market after 2 years. Russia actually has serious food quality standards so ramping up production is
more costly and takes longer. And countries like Brazil have a real advantage over Russia in terms of cattle husbandry.

We also see how the magic invisible hand of the market is an actual stupid joke. If your only parameter is the generation of
profits, then you could care less about delivering a proper product selection. Since beef is more expensive to launch as a
business compared to other types of business, it gets neglected. So big bad grubbermint has to step in and distort the
precious market to have sane production in the economy. The Milton Friedman monkeys don't understand this fact.

I saw a video on YouCrap where Friedman claimed that the poorest Americans were richer than the average Soviet citizen
back the in the 1970s. This c*nt was either a retard or a malicious actor. In either case he was dead wrong. There was
nothing like the poverty seen in the US south in the USSR. Just because everyone was not stinking rich in the USSR does
not mean they were poor. I know this first hand by seeing both sides of the fence.

Kiko wrote:

miketheterrible wrote: Livestock demand is massive in Russia to the point they are still importing cows from other countries.

Massive Russian special breed cow imports are destined for increasingly relevant dairy production.

That is true, but for sure beef production in Russia is not meeting demand by a large percentage.   In terms of pork Russia has
basically reached the level of meeting its domestic demand.

Also dairy is more lucrative since it involves cheese production and cheese is expensive everywhere.

kvs wrote:

Kiko wrote:

miketheterrible wrote: Livestock demand is massive in Russia to the point they are still importing cows from other countries.

Massive Russian special breed cow imports are destined for increasingly relevant dairy production.

That is true, but for sure beef production in Russia is not meeting demand by a large percentage.   In terms of pork Russia has
basically reached the level of meeting its domestic demand.

Also dairy is more lucrative since it involves cheese production and cheese is expensive everywhere.

They are working on beef as well but it takes much longer time to increase number of beef cows compared to dairy ones

They hired people from USA to work on this, Americans know their beef

They also imported a specific breed of cows from both Australia and Denmark. Rumor was also Japan in that Russia tried to get cows so they can produce their own Waygu beef but Japan refused since Russia would probably outdo Japan in the Waygu department sooner than later.

I was told by some people on Russia that the demand is so high that local production of beef only meets about 25% of the needs. And as well, the cost is high so people have switched to pork and chicken since it's much cheaper.

miketheterrible wrote:...I was told by some people on Russia that the demand is so high that local production of beef only meets about 25% of the needs.  And as well, the cost is high so people have switched to pork and chicken since it's much cheaper.

Makes sense, pigs reproduce exponentially, chickens do it geometrically

People dramatically reduced beef consumption in Russia during the 1990s. This helped to downsize beef production.
Now that things are really much better (unlike the Deutscher clown claimed in the question to Putin) the demand has
recovered. But we see no magical production meeting demand, instead we have imports. That is OK, up to a point.
But just as with grain production during the USSR period, there is no excuse for having so little beef production.
There is way, way more than enough pastureland in Russia.

kvs wrote:People dramatically reduced beef consumption in Russia during the 1990s.   This helped to downsize beef production.
Now that things are really much better (unlike the Deutscher clown claimed in the question to Putin) the demand has
recovered.   But we see no magical production meeting demand, instead we have imports.   That is OK, up to a point.
But just as with grain production during the USSR period, there is no excuse for having so little beef production.
There is way, way more than enough pastureland in Russia.

Cows don't reproduce as fast as chickens, especially ones that are slated to end up on BBQ, lot less time for reproduction before grill

PapaDragon wrote:

kvs wrote:People dramatically reduced beef consumption in Russia during the 1990s.   This helped to downsize beef production.
Now that things are really much better (unlike the Deutscher clown claimed in the question to Putin) the demand has
recovered.   But we see no magical production meeting demand, instead we have imports.   That is OK, up to a point.
But just as with grain production during the USSR period, there is no excuse for having so little beef production.
There is way, way more than enough pastureland in Russia.

Cows don't reproduce as fast as chickens, especially ones that are slated to end up on BBQ, lot less time for reproduction before grill  

There are limitations but the issue is that little effort was made to grow this agricultural branch over the last 20 years.
It was displaced by imports. If they started 15 years ago they would be well ahead of where they are now. It will
take 5 to 10 years to see results.

I lived in Moscow in the 1990s. They would dump expired meat products from the EU on the Russian market - you could tell because they would simply put a label over the original label including the expired "good to sell" date. I distinctly remember Danish meat being sold this way. Hard to compete as a domestic producer with expired tossed meat.

That is why all the beef you eat grown in the west is full of steroids and antibiotics.

Not true, in New Zealand such things are not allowed. We get enormous tariffs on NZ Beef exports to the US because they can't compete with our beef production...

They hired people from USA to work on this, Americans know their beef

I would seriously argue with that... these are the guys pumping their animals with antibiotics and steriods and lots of other shit during meat processing...

But just as with grain production during the USSR period, there is no excuse for having so little beef production.
There is way, way more than enough pastureland in Russia.

If there is demand then someone will make a lot of money...

Cows don't reproduce as fast as chickens, especially ones that are slated to end up on BBQ, lot less time for reproduction before grill

They don't, but techniques like artificial insemination gives you control of the genes you are working with without chemical boosters...

Just hope Russia does not copy all western animal production techniques... I just donated plasma and you can't donate plasma in New Zealand if you lived in the UK during the early to mid 1980s because that was when they were feeding dead cows to living cows as cheap feed and managed to make mad cow burgers a thing...

I distinctly remember Danish meat being sold this way. Hard to compete as a domestic producer with expired tossed meat.

I am pretty sure the taste difference alone of fresh meat of a better quality will sell better...

New Zealand is the exception that proves the rule. I am sure we do not have any New Zealand beef here in Canada easily reached
for purchase. We have NZ lamb that is common. So I am not dissing NZ. If NZ can have people like you that run such a forum
then it is definitely an outlier which I will never lump with the yanqui type anti-Russian dementia west.

NZ also proves that people from the UK are no different than any other normal people. All of the world's problems are
generated by rotten elites.

Back to beef, I think Argentinian beef was and likely still is some of the best. My perceptions are warped by the crap I
get in Canada which is the same as the US. Maybe in the EU the beef has higher standards.

       

Brussels’ anti-Russia sanctions policy costs EU economy 21 bln euro annually

magnumcromagnon wrote:        

Brussels’ anti-Russia sanctions policy costs EU economy 21 bln euro annually

They say though, that it would be better for all parties if the sanctions were removed. But I am not sure Russia is hurting too much to get their domestic economy receiving the money that traditionally was going to the EU. European business will need to grow a pair and put their countries in the right path before Russia takes further sacrifices to ease their pain, it is simply to good for them to keep retaliatory sanctions just how they see more beneficial and blame the Europeans for it.

LMFS wrote:

magnumcromagnon wrote:        

Brussels’ anti-Russia sanctions policy costs EU economy 21 bln euro annually

They say though, that it would be better for all parties if the sanctions were removed. But I am not sure Russia is hurting too much to get their domestic economy receiving the money that traditionally was going to the EU. European business will need to grow a pair and put their countries in the right path before Russia takes further sacrifices to ease their pain, it is simply to good for them to keep retaliatory sanctions just how they see more beneficial and blame the Europeans for it.

The US quislings running the EU are not going to make any decision that benefits the EU. Instead they will continue with the
inane "pressure" on Russia. A collection of impotent chihuahuas who think their hate yapping will scare Russia into submission.
Every day that they keep up with their idiotic anti-Russian spasm takes them farther and farther from their objectives.

"A new & unprecedented problem for Russia’s middle class as country’s economy has become ‘too normal’ for simple investors"

https://www.rt.com/russia/509243-middle-class-economy-investors/

par far wrote:"A new & unprecedented problem for Russia’s middle class as country’s economy has become ‘too normal’ for simple investors"

https://www.rt.com/russia/509243-middle-class-economy-investors/

This supports my arguments made over the last few years that the CBR prime rate was grossly excessive. Real inflation
was nowhere near as claimed by Nabiullina and her montarist gang. If the inflation rate was as high as claimed then
people would see no benefit from real savings. Banks paid even less than prime rate for the deposits but charged a
substantial markup for loans. The CBR prime rate was over 8% for years. At the same time the CBR inflation rate
estimate was similar in size and even higher, hence no benefit from keeping deposits in banks. Thus there would not be a "problem"
with investments now. People must have been making serious returns from simple bank deposits. So the real inflation
rate must have been substantially less than 8% after 2014.

The Russian government should stop worshiping at the altar of the false god of monetarism. Banks need to have the
whip cracked over them. They should be forced, by regulation, to pay more than the prime rate for bank deposits.
The CBR should withhold fractional reserve injections to banks if they do not conform. Banks are some of the worst
rackets on the planet. They pretend that deposits are liabilities even though without deposits they cannot make any
loans. So that "accounting" is pure BS. Any attempt to skimp on paying proper interest for deposits should be met
with nationalization of banks that violate the rules.