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Inflationary pushes also from barley and beer


Among those who are certainly most concerned about the duties Trump has announced are American barley producers beer consumption in the US is slowly and steadily declining in 2024 it reached its lowest level in 40 years many Americans prefer other alcoholic beverages, particularly hard seltzers and canned cocktails millennials (born 1981/1996) and Gen Z (born 1997/2012) then drink less alcohol than previous generations messico🇲🇽 is the third largest importer of barley and the largest importer of American malt canada🇨🇦 is the largest importer of American barley and has already implemented tariffs on 4 March in response to those decided by Trump canada is also the leading exporter of fertilisers to the US the prices of fertilisers imported fromCina🇨🇳 have already risen after Trump imposed tariffs on Canada as of 4 February the aluminium used for cans also comes from Canada and is now subject to 25% tariffs imposed by the White House in recent weeks Source : Inglobando

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Agriculture: organic on its knees


The alarm from the Matera hills: unsustainable increase in production costs. And the boar emergency worsens RaiNews The organic situation is very well explained in the article below: we are big organic farmers but we buy very little of it because it is very expensive(many intermediary companies, not producers. Some are on 'everyone's lips' because of recent scandals: Bioera and Ki.Group, for example). Drafted 13 March, updated 18 March 2025