This is not a surprise data-point for readers here. However, it is good to see honest statements from corporate executives on what to expect with food inflation.
As noted by Kroger Chief Financial Officer Gary Millerchip in a call with financial media, we can expect to see even more rapid inflation in food prices overall in the next several months:
MSM – Cincinnati-based Kroger Co., which had $132 billion in sales last year, says inflation is running hotter than management previously anticipated and that expectations are now for prices to rise 2% to 3% over the second half of this year.
Kroger is “passing along higher cost to the customer where it makes sense to do so,” said CFO Gary Millerchip on the company’s second-quarter earnings call on Friday. (read more)
The reason for more inflation is not too difficult to understand. Fresh foods show fast price increases immediately because they have almost no pre-existing inventory. Fresh foods go from field to fork the fastest, and price increases show up immediately. The same applies to restaurants.
However, processed foods and shelf stable foods have a deeper inventory, the turns on that inventory take longer, and as a consequence, it takes longer for the price increases to show up. Millerchip is simply saying the total supply chain price increases are going to hit, and they are going to hit even harder than the last few months, as the new processed inventory carries a higher cost.
The skyrocketing prices at the grocery store are predictable based almost entirely on Joe Biden’s pro-Wall Street and Multinational Corporation policies. Main Street is getting hammered, and the working class is suffering as a direct result.
Their specific accountability for these outcomes is why the Biden administration is trying to distract and blame COVID-19 for supply chain issues. However, it is not COVID driving the prices, it’s Joe Biden policies that benefit multinationals. {Go Deep}
Food products are fast-turn consumable goods, and the inflation in the food sector is jaw-dropping already. However, fresh and processed foods turn at different inventory levels.
Obviously fresh foods spoil fastest (think produce, fish, meats and dairy), so they are replenished more quickly, and the thin supply chain (field to fork) passes along increased costs fast. Processed foods have a longer shelf life (boxed, canned, frozen, etc), and as a consequence, have a much larger inventory level in manufacturing, warehousing and retail storerooms/shelves. Within processed foods, there is a lag between cost increase at origination and that cost hitting the stores.
The problem identified within the current ‘producer price index’, is that price increases in the raw material and intermediate material are building into the supply chain. Keep in mind, the entire supply chain is dependent on energy costs and the fuel prices that impact transportation.
The retail consumer supply chain for manufactured and processed food products includes bulk storage to compensate for seasonality. There are over 800 commercial and public warehouses in the continental 48 states that store frozen products (2020 data). The previously processed food price increases are currently reflected on store shelves (already hurting). However, the coming processed processed food price increases will be much, much higher. We will see even higher prices on processed foods in the supermarket.
The same price increases happen for restaurants, albeit faster as they follow the similar supply chain to fresh foods.
Pro Tip – Buy your Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday shelf-stable items now (spices, condiments, flour, sugars, dried foods etc.) before the prices go up in the next few months.
In most cases there will be a truck between production and processing and between processing and distribution.
You wanna see the whole system fail then watch what happens when Biden’s mandate hits us drivers.
Go for it. Sand, meet machinery.
The record cost and scarcity of Ships will mean any food imported across the ocean is going to become expensive and perhaps unavailable.
Sort of like the cost to ship on this container vessel ?
https://www.zerohedge.com/markets/absolutely-incredible-it-costs-68-new-ferraris-rent-12-year-old-container-ship-just-three
Good Lord. No wonder our costs are rising.
With financial rapists like the owner of that ship, who needs enemies ?
Under the stresses of COVID regulations, road workers might misplace orders or become confused, accidentally tearing up critical sections of highway infrastructure at midnight instead of the job they were supposed to do. How will this impact the Party’s ability to enjoy ice cream?
What happened to the Strikes…?
One of the most effective protest methods. I remember the Truckers Strike of the late-70 or early-80s.
I was hoping for a nationwide strike before the inauguration like was announced but didn’t happen….
To many foreign drivers/owners have flooded into the trucking industry and will never do what should be done.
Agreed
Back in the 70’s and most of the 80’s huge numbers of Company drivers were organized under the Teamsters and so could easily act as one. No more. Now most of the Teamsters are at companies like Holland and UPS and the vast majority of company drivers are not unionized.
If this were a movie, you’d have the legitimate truckers strike and they’d say that the truckers left on the road are aiding the enemy, making them bad truckers. In the next part of the movie, it would make sense for the “bad guy truckers” and the “good guy truckers” to have some sort of fight. In the end the good guys win and the bad guys go to jail for not being honorable.
That’s the kind of movie that would make sense and would be very popular with Americans.
Why do you think they’re bringing in all these “illegals”?? You don’t comply….they take your job…for 1/2 the pay!
Yea, anyone can do what I do and my 17 years and nearly 2 million miles experience, and having driven a big truck in all of the lower 48 plus Ontario and Quebec means nothing. Just jump in the truck and go. Right?
Like I said they are down about 40 percent of the Class A CDL drivers needed.
In the 70/80’s there was a much higher % of trucks that were privately owned,
Iggy b .
Today that % has fallen to ~10%.
~90% of the trucks you see today are “Company” owned. (one way or another)
Many of those “Companies” churn out “New” drivers every week. (Industry turnover is 80%++) They can afford to absorb the liability an inexperienced driver may bring while keeping the wheels rolling and the freight showing up on time…
(Mostly)
“Independent” owners…
Not so much
If an “Independent” strikes they lose ALL income and possibly jeopardize their relationship with the Broker(s) that often supply the loads.
If A “Company” driver strikes they are fired (perhaps ON THE SPOT) and one of the “New” drivers is behind the wheel of the “Company” truck in a matter of days.
Like so many other businesses, “Consolidation” and “Price negotiation” has left the majority of the transportation “Assets” in the hands of a relative few.
Indeed, we are not in Kansas any longer.
*20+ years experience behind the “Wheel”.
2.5+ million miles travelled…
Stock up… if you can.
49 States and 5 Countrys……we do what we can until we can’t do no more. Shiny side up Driver!!
And the rubber side down.
‘Preciate ya, Rick554!
I’m keepin’ the left door closed, my butt in the seat and my “Bird Dog” plugged in.. as best I can.
Many past “Opportunities” have not been worth the trouble… others are manageable….
Like Rah, a mandate will be the “Red Line” for yours truly.
“Haven’t seen nothing since I left the bright lights @ the state line…
What ya see, is what you’ll be gettin’…
Coups are closed behind me…
Haven’t seen hide nor hair of any bears..
You be safe… goin thata way!
This is the Laughing Water…
We’ll be looking for ya on the flip side… I’ll keep my ears on…
Have a good ride!!”
I remember the “strike” back then. Dad would drive for a relative who owned a large farming operation hauling sunflower seeds to the port in Duluth. Quite often one of us kids would ride with him so he had company. I went with him once in 1979 when I was 14. I can remember it because we had gotten to Duluth earlier than usual, and Dad knew another trucker who had also gotten there. We took a taxi somewhere to see Escape from Alcatraz in the theater.
I went with him one other time to Nebraska to pick up equipment used in farming.
It all stopped when so-called independent truckers started getting shot at.
It was scary to think of him possibly getting shot while on the road trying to make some extra money for us.
Republicanvet91…
Fond memories with your Father!
From my own experience, I know they meant the world to him!!
I’m glad you had those times together before things went crazy…
Yep! Toilet paper is going to be the least of the worries.
Unions! They are all leftists run.
Been on the truckers solution for sometime. Shut down the damn regime.
2% to 3% increase my ass.
My grew more that for sure. It keeps growing.
Kroger’s ad last week had boneless beef loin $17.99/ lb sold in a bag…so it is probably 4 1/2 – 6 lbs or around $100 or more for a beef tenderloin
I spoke to a food and beverage importer this week, in line to get a sandwich. He said the container ships were so backed up at the port of Los Angeles that it was contributing to inflation. I responded that if the U.S. had maintained food and beverage independence instead of outsourcing so much food and beverage production offshore starting with NAFTA, there would not even be a problem presently. But then he’d be out of a job ;).
Last week, I drove down PCH from Long Beach to Huntington Beach and saw those monster ships one after another after another after another… Most I’ve ever seen.
Good thing we have two big ports -Los Angeles and Long Beach, side by side. I can’t imagine how long those guys would be waiting their turn out there if there was only one.
Ill be blunt here.
The current installed Resident and his cabal of sociopathic Marxists, are doing this on purpose. The premise of incompetency is long gone. This is on purpose dammit!
These tyrants want main street and the middle class destroyed. And our way of life with it. From this, to the jab, these people will not stop, until they get what they want, or cause a war.
Resist accordingly. Prepare for tough times. Resist, and throw sand in ALL the gears, as much as humanly possible. The American people are going to have to consider running a parallel economy, and leave the Marxists and their broken city’s to rot.
Peaceful co-existence used to be something I never thought much about. I honestly never thought things would get to this insane place. Call me old, but I just never saw all of this coming, even being open minded and mistrustful of big Govt, since I was young.
These leftists are not only taking our freedoms, and being in your face about it, now they want to starve people out? They really, really, really, are daring the citizenry to revolt. I cannot see it any other way. You don’t do all these things and expect no pushback.
Suspicious cat remains in overdrive hyper-vigilance.
I’m down with AmRev v3.1
Its exactly what they want; think Jan 6 as an “insurrection”, 2.0.
They, like any tyranny, are fully prepared for a storming of the gates with pitchforks.
What they can not survive is UNIFIED non-compliance.
Thats why their two-pronged approach is to A) sew dissention, cause if we are argueing with our fellow citisens about masks or jab, CRT and DEI, Trans “rights”, the meaning of words, or the weather, we are not UNITED against them,..
And B) gaining as much control over the necesities of life, so threats to withhold will cowe many into compliance.
Controlling “healthcare”, employment, travel, etc.
They know a percentage of the population will “fold”,and comply when threatened with a withholding of such essentials.
ONLY way they can be stopped, IMHO and as history shows, is with UNIFIED non-compliance.
We ain’t there yet, but Joe MAY just turn out to be,…
“The Unifier in Chief”
Absolutely.
The 2 big ones that THEY are attempting to beat us over the heads with are energy and food.
Food is the biggy.
The .gov is currently paying farmers 1.5 to 2 times the value of their crops to destroy them in the ground.
Either with Agent Orange or plow them under.
If they refuse , then the gov will cut them off the farm subsidies forever.
You want a rebellion on your hands, then starve the peasants.
Yes…they want revolt because they are over confident about winning it. Im not so sure they will win.
Wait to you see the price of Cheerios.
Poor crops due to drought have doubled the price:
https://markets.businessinsider.com/commodities/oats-price
The government is also paying farmers to destroy their crops. With the threat that they won’t get paid, but be fined if they don’t destroy them.
Be sure to stock up on pet foods if you have animals, and share with others who may have trouble affording theirs. We will likely see more poor pets abandoned or dumped in shelters, and sent to the pound. They don’t get foodstamps. 🙁
I read that same garbage about poor crops, bit I’m here in ag country of Colorado and I see only beautiful fields full everywhere. Gov spreading lies about the crops like all else.
And just FYI, our local food banks have pet food also; one day a month everyone who is in need can pick up for their pets when they get their own stuff. I understand several other counties are now doing this, so call and see if one near you is. Don’t hesitate to contribute to the pet food program while donating to the regular food bank too, the four legged will thank you!
Yea! The fields I see in my travels look great. Global Cereal grain production has gone up nearly every year in the last 18 years.
Tell that to my friend in Colorado that grows barley for Coors. They generally have very high requirements for protein etc but not this year. They took everything they can get. I can not believe people do not believe what has happened in the western U.S. starting from NW Wisconsin to the Pacific.
I would also like to point out Oats (a minor crop) is at historic high levels which is the point of my original post. Most of the oats are grown in the Dakotas and Canada. The U.S. has been harvested for some time but the Canadian crop takes longer. General Mills historically becomes extremely aggressive buying oats the minute they figure out the crop is in trouble. If you click on the link I provided you will see the sharp run up in prices that are double the normal price. Oats is the highest price crop at this time from a historical perspective.
Here in western Iowa, I don’t think too many farmers grow oats—mainly stick to soybeans and corn. When I was growing up in the 50s & 60s, Dad always planted at least 30 acres of oats. Hogs ate it soaked in water overnight; steers got premium hulled oats.
Saturday’s grocery trip was an eye opener: within the space of a week, Miracle Whip and mayonnaise are now $5.98 a jar! Store brand was $3.79 For the convenience in my old age I use ready made pie crusts. They have been at $1.79 for Pillsbury brand at least a year; now, $3.99 with store brand $3.69!!
Well here in Manitoba we have had one of the worst years in memory due to drought. Only the old timers who lived through the depression can recall worse. Crops have been decimated by drought, grasshoppers very late frosts followed within hours by extreme heat. Manitoba normally exports hay to the west. This year farmers are scrambling to have enough hay just for their own cattle and many are downsizing their herds.
I agree, in fact I’ve been telling my outside cats (their job is snake removal) that crows taste like chicken.
There are no poor crops, crops look great this year. Stop your BS lies.
I live in the heart of what produces 60% of the Nations fresh produce and there is nothing wrong with any of the crops.
The eastern US is blessed with rain. The western U.S. has been in a severe drought all summer. I am offended that you believe I am lying. We are currently paying $300/ton for hay in western WI. Look at a drought monitor map: https://droughtmonitor.unl.edu/ Do you think it is fun watching a hundred thousand dollar corn crop burn up?
Below are official USDA hay reports and I can list a couple dozen more for corn, beans etc.
South Dakota: https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_3183.pdf
Compared to last week: Alfalfa hay remains steady. Demand is very good for all qualities and classes of hay as the severe drought conditions have greatly reduced grazing and supplies of forage. Cow/calf operators are already beginning to wean their calves and ship them to market as they try to stretch their feed supplies to keep their cow herd intact to the greatest extent possible. Rain showers have been popping up across the state but as the growing season winds down the damage to forage supplies has already been done. Corn silage harvest in full swing, as well as some combining in very dry areas already. 4th cutting of alfalfa taking place where the rains finally came and allowed enough regrowth to be cut.
California: https://www.ams.usda.gov/mnreports/ams_2904.pdf
Compared to last week: Demand remains good for all alfalfa. Retail hay trade moderate on firm prices. According to the US drought monitor released on September 09, 2021 For the week, most of the region continued to experience dry conditions, although some residual moisture from Hurricane Nora worked its way into the Southwest leading to some isolated shower activity. California, western Great Basin, Pacific Northwest, and the Northern Rockies have experienced drier-than-normal conditions during the past 90-day period. In Washington, drought and associated precipitation deficits dating back to the springtime, combined with extreme summer heat, have severely impacted the state’s wheat crop which is reportedly had its lowest output since 1973.. According to the USDA, the percentage of topsoil rated short to very is as follows: Washington 100%, Oregon 89%, Idaho 75%, Montana 93%, Wyoming 70%, and California 85%. According to the Natural Resources Conservation Service (Sept 1), reservoir storage levels were below normal across all the western states except for Washington state (data not yet available for Montana).. The next available report will be September 17, 2021.
Also I would like to add the hay prices listed are not delivered and are not the $300/ton “Supreme” quality that we purchased. We bought ours several months ago when there was small amount available.
Since when was hay a crop LMAO.
It’s fodder like Alfalfa and corn for feeds.
It only costs $600 for 50 lbs of seed at 20lbs/acre. I am a little hot under the collar after working in and surviving a 100 degree summer and watching everything burn up. I have friends across the western U.S. and it is not good. The east has a bumper crop of corn and beans which will offset the losses in the west but nothing is going to offset the hay, small grains and beef losses that are occurring in the west. Sometime you should post a picture of your farm.
My whole area is farmland, everything is looking great. Hay is even being harvested off normal residents land who have the acreage which is normally done, not farmland. Maybe you don’t know how to farm, or you aren’t putting in the effort like we do and that’s why you have problems.
It’s a crop and it’s traded and brokered like any other crop. I just hope the dang westerners don’t do what they ALWAYS do and head South to raid our hay stores. We have our own beef critters and horses to feed and we make WAY less then Westerners do to afford it. I don’t mind sending tractor-trailers of rolls and bales, but not ALL of it. Last time it was dry out West we were shorted until First Cutting.
My province, Manitoba, is normally a net exporter of hay. Every fall great truckloads of it head west. Not this year. Ranchers are doing well if they have enough hay for their own cattle. Many don’t.
What exactly do you think cattle eat? Laugh your ass off all you want ignorant moron. Right now beef is staying relatively cheap because farmers and ranchers without enough hay to feed their cattle through the winter are downsizing their herds. By next spring beef is going to hit ten times what it is today.
Shut the F*ck up you ignorant piece of trash. Hay is being harvested off property around me that isn’t even farmland. You losers crying about hay don’t know how to farm. A crop to me is what a human eats, corn, soybeans, greenbeans, etc. Hay is not a crop, it grows naturally on land everywhere. You don’t have to plant it. A crop is planted. I could careless about beef prices, so go cry somewhere else.
I see, so you don’t consider cotton a crop.
Since when was hay cotton?
You say it will be 10 times…. mark your calendar and show me the proof, or STFU.
Hay is very much considered a crop here in Texas. What do you think the beef is fed? They have to have ruffage for digestion. Lots of ranchers don’t feed grain or cubes year round. Horses and cattle eat grass in the good months and hay in the cold months. So just because YOU don’t eat hay what you eat does.
Hay is not a crop, it grows naturally on land everywhere. You don’t have to plant it. A crop is planted. Do you people have a problem understanding that? My yard is hay, my neighbors yard is hay… if we let it grow out a farmer will hay it and get some bales.
The hay field behind my house was planted. It is cut, raked, turned to dry and then bailed. It does come back every year but to start with it was planted. And it requires the application of herbicide occasionally.
The hay in my yard, my neighbors yard and most places around me is naturally growing, so what’s your point?
You sound like a typical liberal leftist with your logic that makes no sense. Cattle eat grass normally.
Let’s not forget that they shut off the water to S. Cal.’s farmland at the beginning of the year.
mostly it is N Central Valley which is technically SoCal but more towards SAC than Bakersfield
That is to create bankrupcies so the globalists can buy up more prime farmland cheap.
I will say, 2 weeks ago we bought 3 packer briskets at $2.99 a lb. and another 2 days ago at Kroger for $1.99 a lb. Pretty much unheard of these days! Smoked 1/3rd of one today. Delicious!
(Just a FYI, a packer is a whole untrimmed brisket. Usually 12-17 or so pounds.)
I sadly paid >$6 per pound for 85% ground beef today. Making sauce for multiple meals. Double the price of sweet Italian sausage from last week. For 30+ years, I’ve bought various roasts on sale and have them ground to get better flavor at lower prices. Today, roasts were not available. Hmmm.
Why? Natural or government influenced? The general welfare clause is often used by the left to justify their MARXIST views for many years. Do you understand Cold Anger yet?
I hope to find a $1.99 packer soon so that I can bring friends and family over to celebrate family life.
Blessings to all…
EBL, wasn’t sure if your “Cold Anger” question was directed this way, but I certainly do understand it, I wake up with it all to often! I am in Georgia, north of Atlanta. I usually shop at Publix or Ingle’s and they do tend to have a better meat selection than Kroger. I stock up our freezer for what may be coming down the road. That includes veggies too. I only buy on sale items myself. I hope it’s OK for me to post, but I and my family buy a lot of veggies and such from a family owned company that has sales in Ga. Fl. and AL. The website is “https://www.southwesternproduce.com/prod2/” You buy in bulk, but it’s not that expensive. (for most items)
If you have a Kroger in your area, ask them about these packers! Blessings to you also! BD
Today in Georgia: Brisket is $4.9/lb at Kroger and$5.29 at Sam’s club. I have noticed more marked down meat at Sam’s lately meaning people are not buying at higher prices. They no longer sell baby back ribs except by cases or pre-cooked as I do not see a lot of people willing the pay the $5.29/lb prices of a couple weeks ago.
Time to reconsider that intermittent fasting thing.
It’s a good thing I held on to that $.16 I saved at my 4th of July BBQ.
It Seems to me they can raise prices across the board by the 25% that Joe Stalin increased food stamps. It won’t hurt any Biden voters.
Well, the dead don’t eat much…..
Back when we had the Gas Shortages a few months ago, people around here were saying, “What’s next..?!!!”
I said — Meat – particularly Beef – then —- Everything…. especially the closer we get to Thanksgiving + Christmas.
We are seeing the shortages in everything already. You didn’t see nearly empty shelves like this in the past.
According to the manuals of The Great Reset — we aren’t going to eat much Meat in the New World Order + Beef is verboten — except for the Elites —- like not wearing masks if you are partying with Obama on his birthday or hobnobbing with Pelosi in Napa Valley….
My cattle-rancher-on-retainer, as I refer to my farmer friend, just informed us the processing price will increase significantly this year. Somehow, a ‘kill’ fee and a disposal fee have been added. And that’s on top of a price per pound increase.
As a former Californian, I am all too aware of the death by a thousand cuts taxation imposed by tyrannical leftists.
My line to friends was they tax you into submission.
I guess with COVID it’s vax and tax you into submission.
Why not butcher the steer themselves? Group project behind the barn? That’s how it was done until people moved off the land in the post-WW II era. We don’t need abattoirs.
Good thing I process my own deer and season is coming up. I wonder if this price increase and possible meat shortage will thin out the wild hog population here in East Texas.
The price of your deer is gonna go up, because the price of natural hay is going up…. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I’ve also seen what happens when the prices on that fresh produce get too high. It all stays unsold and rots.
Talk regularly to butcher for chain of stores here in southeast. We were discussing cost and availability of beef. He has friend that he apprenticed with and still in touch, works for IBP packers. He called to discuss shortage with him, the friend wanted to know what shortage? Told him they working full tilt nothing changed.
Local guy has figured that chains logistics are contributing factor much of it is labor shortage.
Betting vax crap isn’t going to help issue.
Well one problem a lot of people aren’t considering is that due to the drought lot of ranchers are downsizing their herds because they don’t have enough hay to feed through the winter. That is creating local gluts you see now but just wait a few months. Beef is going to sky rocket then, if you can find it.
My family is doing fine, with their cattle and crops. You are a fearmongering fool.
Hotels and air were still mostly shut down July 2020 and people were not traveling. Hotels and air was very cheap. I know because I travel for work. Now travel is picking up a bit and prices are increasing. New cars are in short supply because of the chip shortage and are selling at sticker and above. This increases demand for used driving those prices up. Fuel? We know that one. A lot of the price of food is fuel from the farm to the supply chain. Food inflation is partly fuel inflation. Not on your chart are entry level wages, interest rates and housing and all are going up.
At the Truck plant near Ft. Wayne, IN they parked 1,000s of new trucks with no chips in fields near the airport. Rodents have gotten into them and chewed the wiring. Their now junk.
There was no inflation until after January 2021. They gotta make it seem like it started during Trumps term.
saw a graph where rental cars were up +76% IF you could get one due to new car lack of availability…the majors lease huge fleets every year then put them on the used car market after about 40k miles….chip shortage has disrupted the normal operations
I drive a 32 year old Cavalier, and had an offer of $6000 last week at a market ( it isn’t for sale)… I was a bit confused then, but now it makes more sense.
The local Chevy dealer keeps aggravating my Mom to sell them her 2015 Equinox. They are actually begging.
Great time to support your local Farmer’s Market.
Buy large and freeze it or store in a root cellar environment. You don’t need to have grown your own to store it for the winter.
I picked up 3 dozen ears of corn last month and froze it. Will last me the year.
Made peach jam for my first time canning – fruit vitamins for 3 months.
Making grape jelly this week.
Hoping to make salsa when I have enough tomatos ready.
Also, I was able to score ball jars at Walmart dot com for the in-store price. Should be arriving Tuesday.
Will hope the UPS guy is a bit careful with the glass.
I have observed before that our Shadow President, Black BO, has a BMidas touch.
Everything he touches turns to s•••.
We are a household of two, and live quite frugally. That means real whole food, no junk food. Our weekly basket price last year was $80 for the week. The past 3 months our weekly basket is $80 before adding meat. When we add meat we have a $36 increase on our basket. That is shopping at ALDI
Just off the top of my head butter has increased a $1 per 8oz, peanut butter 40 cents, cottage cheese 36 cents etc We are both KETO
We bought butter on sale on Friday, $2.50 per pound for name brand. Bought 12 pounds. Excess went to freezer. We found eggs for $.69 a dozen and bought 10 dozen. They keep well past sell by date. I am surprised that frozen seafood has stayed low while beef goes up. Pork can still be found at markdown. Bargains are available just not on the whole basket.
I am in the middle of the country in a very non-urban area. Cities may be seeing supply problems that we do not have.
Same here VibeMan.
We are a household of two now that the kids are grown and gone and we live simply and frugally.
We have a freezer full of beef, chicken, deer and elk.
Also a lot of fish which is not my favorite but my sweet husband will eat a lot of it.
Maybe it is because of our rural area but I have not seen shortages or prices shooting up.
And the hunting and fishing is always good.
It is funny how when my kids come here from the city they like to go to the local small grocery stores and stock up on beef and chicken because the prices are so much lower and the selection is so much better than what they have in the city at their local chain markets.
I can remember when living in the rural countryside was undesirable because of the “lack of amenities” and city living was all the rage.
My kids live in nice neighborhoods, in nice houses but their shopping choices really suck.
Here we have great small local groceries, a fantastic Amish bakery and a local Amish variety store that will order any thing your little heart desires if they do not have it in stock.
The Amish bakery and the variety store are smack dab out in the middle of no where and their “English” customers drive from miles ( some over hundreds and from different states) away to shop there.
Life is easy ( most of the time) and living is pretty good here, hopefully not all of the cities will be such an economic mess and not hit too badly by the chaotic shipping and labor shortages.
Especially the ones where our fellow Treepers live.
Hard to beat the value in commerce with anything Amish…quality and price are excellent with their products
Find one of the dollar stores in your area that sells fresh vegetables, fresh fruits, canned good items, and bakery. They’re everywhere here.
A world ruled and controlled by the State and by big government is a world where what benefits the State always comes first.
Leftists have assumed that State control would be a world where the rights and interests of the people would come first. In fact, the State and its agents always place their own interests ahead of the good of the people and the world.
The Treaty of Westphalia (1648) was the famous set of documents that made the nation-state the centre of world diplomacy and politics. The transition to world government has been a transition to placing the self-interest of bureaucrats and State functionaries ahead of the interests of the people or any nation-state.
Runaway government spending, and thereby runaway inflation, are factors that benefit State functionaries, and only State functionaries. The State has the enormous luxury to increase spending or taxation at its own discretion, for its own benefit. Biden intends to increase the Food Stamp handouts by 25%. Just that easy, just that simple.
The Corporatists who support the explosion of the welfare state lack the wisdom to see that they will be eaten up next. Food prices too high? Absorb the food companies. Even a moron like AOC can see this coming, but not the CEOs of the agri-businesses. Shocking..
The wealthy always get hoodwinked by the fascists, conmunists, whatever.
They THINK “partnering” with the Govt solves all their problems, until they get shoved out the door (or more likely, down the stairs with a bullet in the brain).
10% for the big guy!
Inflation of nearly 10% may be a factor in this phenomenon: obscene chants against The Manchurian Marionette at college football games “across the nation.”
“...A CNN poll released Friday shows 69% of Americans say things are going wrong in the US.
Stadiums are one place where crowds of people cannot be censored, unlike social media platforms that will shadow ban or de-platform users for speaking their minds.
Not exactly what Democrats were expecting ahead of the midterms….”
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/fk-joe-biden-chants-heard-across-us-college-football-stadiums
College students in general are usually the most impoverished class of people while attending school. I know because I was one… I had to scrimp everywhere I could. With gas doubling, food going up 30%, rents going up 25%, new cars almost doubling in price, used cars doubling in price, etc. They are pissed off at the Traitor Biden… and there really is no way to make up for their losses, because they are going to school.
To me, this single phenominom is the one thing which gives me hope, as it mirrors closely the behavior that eventually led to the Singing revolution.
EXACTLY the same behavior; singing the forbidden songs at stadiums, where the large #’s gave the people confidence they couldn’t all be arrested.
This gives me hope,…
Me too! I sent a chorus of those F Biden vids around to my peeps. “Hope” is the right word!
Glad to know that just food inflation, and the cost of having to pay for a Rona test every freaking week, have wiped out every pay raise I earned over the last four years.
A smart purchase might just be a small freezer. Put it in the spare bedroom if you have to. Buy sales while there are still sales. We got bone-in chicken breasts for $.88/pound last week and bought 40+ pounds for the freezer. Watch for canned goods and dried foods like beans to be on sale. Prepare now and this can be survived.
Hopefully one also has a generator, in case the electricity goes down as well.
I do. And many gallons of no alcohol fuel.
After Hurricane Ike blew through Ohio, my generator was stolen. With a freezer full of beef, I spent the next day and a half on the phone. I finally located someone I knew who had both electricity and a freezer.
Just a tip…
I built a battery backup using a UB121000 battery, bussman 120A circuit breaker and a TrippLite APS 750.
My freezer uses 1000 watt hours per day, and nominally 90 watts when running, but I needed atleast 750 watts on the inverter charger to get it going.
My freezer will run at least 12 hours on battery, so my generator only needs to be run for short periods on the recharge – about 3 hours. Can also be recharged using solar panels.
Total cost was about $600. Similar in function to what you would get with a Jackery or Bluetti.
I did another for the sump pump and am working on a third for the pellet store and fridge.
Sweet, nice setup.
If you have time checkout
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Lots of good tips on cogen, generators, backups and alternate energy.
That is a good idea VibeMan.
I had forgotten how when we were young and first married we bought a teeny tiny freezer and put it in the living room.
We had canned goods and dry goods everywhere in our tiny one bedroom apartment because we were trying to shop carefully and get some kind of supply built up.
I had forgotten all about the little freezer until your post.
The neighbors probably thought we were crazy with canned goods every where and a little freezer in the living room.
Slowly and little by little we were able to build up a bit of storage of canned goods and dry beans and rice etc.
Those were the days!
Your words are wise especially seeing what’s happening in the UK with the food shortages. If it can happen there, it can happen here too. A food industry leader said the UK food shortages are permanent, Boris Johnson says they will be over by Christmas…sure.
That’s what a large percentage of us do here in Alaska.
We’re at the end of a 3-day (minimum) supply chain – even from the ports of Seattle and Tacoma. One container ship gets delayed due to weather or mechanical issues, and the store shelves start looking pretty bare.
Get those canners and dehydrators going. Be careful using the ‘net to learn how. Find somebody to teach you or buy a Ball Home Canning book at a store. You can preserve several things without a whole lot of new equipment if you check out junk and thrift stores for large kettles and such. Check out your county extension centers for help and ideas. (Got wind of a warning FB has that if you know a food preserver s/he might be an extremist.) Check your packages and labels. Lots of crap comes from China or is processed in China. Plan for a garden next year – even if you only have enough room for bucket gardening.
I’m hearing that canning lids are almost impossible to find, especially ones not made in China.
Correct. China ones all over the place on the ‘net. None in the stores.
They were. Supply eased up and USA made ones were widely available. Then people started canning. Hard to find again. Most stores in my area only stock them during canning season and they are considered seasonal.
I’m a dairy farmer, certified organic for that matter. Just FYI the price we recieve for raw milk off the farm has NOT changed and the price of conventional production is almost unchanged. However our imput prices have gone up fast, fuel being the most. Thank heavens wood came back down, at least for now, I need to replace some worn out buildings on my farm. Just want to dispel the idea that farmers are getting rich off these prices, we’re not. Yes the price of oats for instance is up but when you don’t have as much to sell due to bad crop it’s a wash. Find a small dairy farmer if they still exist in your area and get to know him, it may be to your advantage in the future
it is just like the lumber prices…lumberjacks, mills, and landowners were not getting the benefit of the price spikes…it was the producers trying to gouge the public with feigned shortages
actually there was a “lumber” shortage. at the start of the covidiocracy one of the largest lumber mills on the west coat decided it would be a good time to shut down and refit. They were thinking that the lock down would slow demand, oopsies, wrong. But I would have thought the same. also on the east coast the biggest pulp mill burnt, EPA does not allow a lumber mill to operate with out a pulp mill to use the refuse from milling. So down till the pulp mill is back up.
HOWEVER the high prices was the result of the 4 major suppliers (Weyerhaeuser Co. · Georgia-Pacific LLC · West Fraser Timber Co., Ltd. · Interfor) cashing in on the downtime and making HUGE markups. The latest is, I believe it was Menards, was caught with such a huge stock of high priced OSB when the price came down that they donated the high price stuff to Habitat just to unload it. Such a price difference that they could not average it down without losing their shirt, better to take the tax deduct and get their store prices down fast or lose market
Sundance, thanks for the tip off months ago. Because of your “prompting”, I bought a garage freezer a few weeks ago and have been steadily packing it full. In addition, my pantry, spice rack, baking supplies are topped off. Get ready folks, because it’s going to be a hell of a winter.
Make sure you have a good generator, Max – or that freezer will do you no good after 2-3 days.
I-bonds pay 2 x CPI. $10,000 per year can be purchased per year. This is something your stockbroker cannot sell to you. Read up before you invest but it can replace other low interest treasury bonds in your portfolio.
Maybe it’s just me, but I see Obama as the driver of the car in the advertisement behind the food line.
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Concur!
“Mama” in front seat is Piglotsi. Can’t tell about 2
“Kids” in back.
Harry Reid for sure, and maybe Eric Kantor the other one.
It’s a tax increase they can conveniently blame on covid. But the reason workers are going to be leaving jobs is due to vax mandates, and that will cause shortages. in NY, maternity wards are already shutting down :
https://www.theepochtimes.com/mkt_breakingnews/ny-hospital-will-stop-delivering-babies-as-maternity-workers-resign-over-vaccine-mandate_3993409.html?utm_source=newsnoe&utm_medium=email2&utm_campaign=breaking-2021-09-12-2&mktids=12215fc18599a872dde3045d44524421&est=PIlSF7A3RE%2BRAerRmgVKjNsACcYw6AVOzXdC4aBXotvkIgGanrlX8vMx82mUn0pYgfA%3D.
Wanna bet we see restrictions again this year on holiday gatherings due to ‘new virus strains’ created by the deplorable, filthy unvaxxed population??
Any leader who Knowingly and on purpose passes policy that would cause people to lose their incomes (and assets, homes, cars, etc.) is a Traitor to this Nation
(and it’s great Citizens) and those leaders should be up against a wall.
Oba*ma himself wreaked havoc on the entire country with his Healthcare scam. Every person I know was affected in a harmful way. I lost my best earning job as my employer folded up, my sisters company shut down and she had to find a new career. Bidet is Obama on steroids.
Let’s just call it what it will become … Biden’s bubble.
And when it busts, all bets are off … eat or buy gas.
Gas makes great Molotov cocktails.
I like guerrilla gas the best.
So we might not have a White House tweet out about $16 worth of Thanksgiving dinner savings?
Kroger is “passing along higher cost to the customer where it makes sense to do so,”
Which means all of it. It’s never enough for them they always have to have more. I know many will jump on me for attacking the company but something tells me that despite all of Kroger’s “hardships” they will miraculously turn a profit and those profits will more then likely be record highs.
supermarkets only run a typical margin of 2-3%…not a lot of profit there…when you mix in higher labor costs, shipping costs (Krogers runs their own fleet), and food inflation what exactly do you expect them to do?…run at a loss so you can save money?
That’s funny, because our local Kroger has raised the price of the packaged and processed foods up to 35% in many cases, but all of the fresh produce, meats and dairy products are actually going down in prices. That doesn’t translate to honesty in pricing increases to me; I’m taking advantage of the drops and stocking the freezers while it’s possible. Also, not sure what Targets are like elsewhere, but here the local Target puts $1-$5 off coupons on most of the fresh meats after 6:30 pm, so I go in and pick up a few chicken breasts for under $2 a package every couple of nights. Makes stocking the freezer actual fun!
Figuring how to endure the pain The Coup Courtiers inflict on me has less charm for me than figuring out how to inflict pain on them.
Everyone stocking up will certainly worsen the inflation as it will cause shortages just like the toilet paper scare of 2020. Count on a rapid acceleration of inflation as scarcity takes hold and fear creeps in to the marketplace in coming weeks.
Preserving what we grow isn’t worsening much at all.
Coffee, chocolate, pet supplies, dry goods, just about most everything. It is like having to maintain two households, your normal one, and your future one.
It’s EXACTLY like that! None of us in my house will allow ourselves to be poisoned, so we have had to prepare for the potential day when we’ll be jobless and unable to shop. Thank God we were wise enough to pay cash for the house and have no mortgage to worry over.
America has become a sh it hole country. You can trash me but it’s the truth. Yes there are still pockets of great people but they are overwhelmed by the garbage that lives in the super PO S Commie Dem urban areas.
Kroger has higher prices than our local Meijer and Walmart. Their produce is awful. They take advantage of shoppers because they are closer to residential areas. I’m not talking about a nickel or a quarter. I’m talking $1+. I decided to shop elsewhere even though I have to drive a little farther. With grocery delivery you don’t even have to do that.
Just to put the truck driver angle into perspective. The US is already about 40 percent short of the drivers needed.
I’m an on call driver paid a salary. There are 9 of us at a terminal with over 200 drivers. They want 10 of us but nobody signed up for the position. Our job is to go where ever, when ever needed and deal with what ever situation has arisen to get a load through. If we have to team we do so. If we have to go to Canada we do so.
I have already emailed my boss and told him I will clean out the truck and be gone in a heartbeat if the company mandates the shots. Since then two other salary drivers have told me they will do the same. Haven’t talked to the others yet.
Banner Year for U.S. Beef Exports in 2021 ?
https://www.fas.usda.gov/data/banner-year-us-beef-exports-2021
Blurb from article:
Reduced exports from Argentina may also boost U.S. global market share, particularly in China. In mid-May, the Government of Argentina announced a restriction on beef exports for 30 days to ease rising domestic prices by bolstering domestic supplies.
Tyson Foods requires employees to have the shots against covid-19. There are several Tyson plants across the Midwest. It would be interesting to see how that plays out.
were,already everything is sky high ,
long as fake president in the White House nothin good for country,
Who in their right mind would eat any processed food? It’s straight up poison. They care less about humans’ well being, only about the $$$’s.
No question about it. Inflation is hitting everything.
The west is running out of water. Obviously impacts food prices.
Not at problem! Comrade Congressman John Yarmuth says they will print all the money required!!
My favourite cookie here in Canada went from $1.99 for 250 grams to $3.49 for 180 grams. My wife has decided we need to switch to homemade cookies. Inflation is not all bad.
it’s pretty real and getting more so daily………..bread lines are coming!