Random conversations
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You can’t stop someone going into a brick and mortar shop buying something and then selling it be it online or face to face, the grey market as they call it is huge in some industries.
I have a load of thoughts about the whole online vs instore vs online only vs regional
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Random question for @motojobobo : Just read on the news that Bolivia is affected extremely bad by El Niño this year and the government is declaring a state of emergency. How bad is it in your area?
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Hey @tody! Thanks for asking.
Not bad really…I suspect the announcement was motivated largely for political reasons. Not yet seeing extraordinary El Niño impacts this year.
But let’s see further down. I have many friends and family strongly involved with agro and livestock activity and no reports of unusually adverse situations yet, -
@motojobobo Does the El Niño weather pattern typically bring more rains to your area or severe drought?
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@goosehd not easy to give a clear and general answer here.
Most of the meteo models for S. America are clear on their forecast for central Amazonia, the western Andes and southern S. America (Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay). That leaves most of lowland Bolivia in a transitional/borderline area with vague forecasts. In my ranch area the last two El Niño events have shown up with “slightly higher than historical rainfall”; so nothing noteworthy. However for Bolivia’s highland in the Andes they have been quite dry and damaging years.
Not sure about the why for the vague forecasts; possibly due to poor quality and sparse weather station data in Bolivia?
