With input prices spiralling out of control, it’s quite logical for farmers to wonder if they’ve fallen down Lewis Carroll’s rabbit hole.

That’s what happened to Alice. You will remember she had many adventures in Wonderland with mushrooms, kings, queens, a white rabbit, and a Mad Hatter.

But seven-year-old Alice didn’t believe in impossible things.

The ancient White Queen pitied her, saying, “When I was your age … sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.”

That’s where we are today. At least six things that not so long ago would have seemed impossible have now become reality.

Who’d have imagined that:

• A pandemic would kill more than six million people and change life on the planet?

• Russia would invade Ukraine and Vladimir Putin threaten to use nuclear weapons if NATO countries interfered?

• Fuel and fertilizer prices would skyrocket?

• The cost of living in Canada would reach a 30-year high this past January, and keep climbing?

• Some Maritime farmers would be uncertain whether to plant crops?

• An international “hurricane of hunger” would loom if Ukrainian grain could not be delivered to its global markets?

Breakfast may be very difficult to swallow at the moment.

But Alice eventually made her way Through the Looking Glass and awakened.

And six more impossible things can change tomorrow

morning:

• COVID-19 cases are declining.

• Newfoundland and Labrador had the integrity to cut its fuel taxes. Other governments in the Atlantic region can overcome their natural instincts to fill provincial coffers and follow suit instead.

• The New York Times reports that Allied countries, struggling with logistical and moral dilemmas, are determined to safely move 25 million tonnes of grain from Ukrainian silos to prevent famine.

• Australia has another bumper wheat harvest that could replace grain stolen by Russian soldiers and help with global food shortages this year.

• Ottawa will realize that Canadian farmers must increase production and need cash, not loan extensions.

• Health Canada comes down from its ivory tower into the real world and exempts ground beef and pork from front-of-package warning labels.

• And Ukrainian farmers can remove their helmets and body armour while they harvest and plant crops. And Russian soldiers can go home.