Today let's talk about other things than alcohol. ☀️
Due to drought, the wheat has already been watered before Christmas 🎄. Unprecedented, but necessary. ⏳ Just enough to help the seed germinate, gain time, hoping that it will finally really rain in Béziers.
💦60mm on 11/01 but we already have to go again.
So in recent days we have been losing our marbles trying to operate our water cannons autonomously.
Get out your notebooks 🤯:
Circumference of a circle? => 2 x π x Radius.
It's important... But water doesn't care about that!
Its force always winds at the same rhythm, while outside everything goes faster and faster and poses problems of homogeneity 😩 we need electronics to control all that.
All this for what?
👨🌾It's official: we're feeding France!
In "normal" times we hope to harvest 3T/ha
In the land of the baguette 🥖, it seems that we consume 120kg of wheat/year/inhabitant. So 1 Ha => 25 people 🍴
By watering, despite what some people might say 💦, we are taking out insurance to avoid having another blank year, and we even hope to produce a ton more, thus feeding 8 more people 😎
In terms of quality, we could simplify:
- Soft wheat for chickens 🐣
- Durum wheat for bread and pasta
- Durum wheat is of higher quality because it contains more protein
- T45 and T55 flour? No, I'm talking about the W, the strength 💪 of gluten...
- For example: to make a real Neapolitan pizza you need T00 flour (T45 in fact, but 00 with the Italian accent is cool 🤌🤌), and especially with a W between 280 and 330
Quality would have a price 💸:
- Soft wheat is worth 0.2€/kg
- We produce durum wheat: 0.3€/kg
I don't know about you, but despite the crisis and the wars, I still get by on 2€/kg for spaghetti 🍝
Let us rest assured, in this case the State only takes 5.5% VAT. The culprit is not there.
So I had a dream 🦄: we all paid 20 cents more per packet to help the poor industrialists raise the price by that much.
No need to optimize quality (or origin...)
No, definitely, to get back to reality, some are better than farmers at growing wheat...