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The price of food and other basic commodities will soon rise in many places around the world. What are some commodities that are produced domestically or will remain inexpensive where you live? What do you expect will become more expensive? Please include your country of origin or region of the world in your reply.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

The cross-section between high volume and easy to make

  • Vegan replacement products? Easier to make than animals, but low volume so it's more expensive than it needs to be (and often in a higher tax bracket, classified as candy or whatever)
  • Eggs? Needs healthy animals
  • Bananas are clones of each other. Might become an issue at some point, might not. Apples, too, but there's many more variants
  • Maize, tomatoes, potatoes? Grown by the bazillion, cheap, afaik needn't be clones of each other to get (something close enough to) the desired product
  • Rice? The pre-boiled stuff is afaik around the same price as the raw product, that's how large the volumes are
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Lotta cranberry bogs here, and tomatoes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Is cheese curds a thing where you are? If so, I might be where you are.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

We have garbage plates here, so maybe not. I mean. I know what cheese curds are, but getting them is annoying! (NJ)

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 36 minutes ago

I was going to guess Minnesota when you said garbage plates. But I guess that's different too. Wisconsin (where I am) has tons of cranberry bogs.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

There is only relatively expensive.
Literally everything has gone up with every excuse possible.
Covid, some ship that blocked the Suez canal?!, war in ukraine, not enough rain, too much rain.
Prices never go down after.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Yup. And here we are, still blaming covid for shortages and "supply chain disruptions".

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

US, specifically southeast Michigan: Ramen, bread, and spaghetti, though as other commenters have said everything has gone up, so even these.

[โ€“] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I live in the US and honestly, I don't think anything will remain inexpensive. Even stuff that is produced domestically will go up in price because a) the value of the dollar will contine to decrease and b) if companies can get away with increasing prices while pointing to some external excuse, they will.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

The US overproduces some crops that USAID used to buy and send overseas. The local supply will increase, some reckon by a lot, and prices may crash as local demand is just not there.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

Comparatively speaking, politicians here are pretty inexpensive. It only took one twat a couple hundred million to own the president.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Gas? It's so much cheaper than the EU, even when it's at its more expensive in the US

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 19 hours ago

Not when it's not subsidized.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Mhm, even when prices are at outrage levels in the US it's probably half the price of what it typically sells for in Europe.

The quality is a little better, though (e.g. less sulfur, typically of a higher octane rating).

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I have no clue here, so can you clarify your last sentence?

Where is the quality better? Europe or USA?

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Europe has better fuel, due to generally more stringent requirements with regards to emissions.

Source: My dad, who used to work with regulations around such things.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Clay, I can walk 100 meters and dig it out of the ground for free.

Water, it rains about 200 days a year.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 20 hours ago

Mud Pies incoming!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Canada. Lentils, potatoes , rice.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) (1 children)

Lentils and potatoes for sure, but we don't really grow rice in Canada. There are some [examples] (https://chathamdailynews.ca/news/local-news/chatham-kent-home-to-canadas-first-commercial-rice-crop), but we get our rice from the US, Thailand, and India, as well as many other countries. I eat rice very regularly and I have no doubt I've never eaten rice grown on Canadian soil.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

No but the question was staples that remain cheap. We buy a lot of Rice from India, even as prices may rise it is still cheap. A 10 or 20 lb bag of rice lasts a long time for meals.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Oops, I didn't see that part of the question, my bad! I sure hope rice stays affordable, that and tofu represent like half my diet :P

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

Mine too. Rice, beans, tofu, lentils, potatoes...and mixed veggies. Luckily we have a local grocery chain that is not Superstore and their prices on staple goods and veggies are like half the amount of Superstore

[โ€“] [email protected] -3 points 1 day ago

Take all this for a grain of salt I'm at work and didn't have time to verify these numbers. I got them from AI, but the order makes sense. They also don't include secondary and tertiary effects. E.g. what tariffs on China will do to goods imported from Japan.

In the United States, corn, soybeans, and wheat are projected to go up a maximum of 5%. We produce upwards of 40% of those goods, so they will be the ones which will impact other countries the most. Meat will go up more. We domestically produce 12-15% of the world supply of pork and beef. Produce is going to be hit badly. Up to 40%.

Gasoline and other fossil fuels is difficult to determine. We import a lot from other countries, directly from Canada, but companies based out of the United States have off shore drilling rights in locations around the world. Increased costs of fossil fuels, may have increased incentive for renewables and nuclear, but oil companies have historically passed those losses on to consumers.