Here’s a solid example of what “field to fork” inflation is all about. Two images shared today point out how the farmland inflation originates, and how the farmland inflation surfaces in your life.
The first image (pictured right) is a current price reference point for crop fertilizer [Source] from the perspective of the farmer preparing.
To go into the deep weeds behind what is causing this massive jump in price, you can review THIS ARTICLE.
[…] “Compared to September 2020 prices, ammonia has increased over 210%, liquid nitrogen has increased over 159%, urea is up 155%, and MAP has increased 125%, while DAP is up over 100% and potash has risen above 134%.”
Those fertilizer component products are used for corn, wheat and soybeans crops.
[…] “Corn represents about 49% of the share of U.S. nutrient use, while wheat accounts for about 11% and soybeans account for 10%. Cumulatively, those three crops account for about 70% of U.S. fertilizer consumption.” {link}
Now, you might say those crops do not seem like they are that important. However, keep in mind that Corn, Wheat and Soybeans represent the baseline for not only grain production in the U.S, but they are also the primary feed products for proteins: chicken, pork and beef.
Worse yet, both grain and protein are the primary ingredients in pet foods; so pet food producers end up collecting even more price increases in their manufacturing. Have you noticed a shortage of pet food on your shopping trips?
When fertilizer goes up that high in price, the end cost of that harvest goes up in price, along with the end price of everything the harvest is used for.
So now we get to the point in the supply chain where these protein price increases show up to the average consumer.
This restaurant menu was shared with CTH today and reflects how the owners of this specific dining establishment are having to cope with the price of chicken from their wholesale supplier. This example shows just how rapidly -and unpredictably- the price increases are hitting the restaurant industry.
Yes, chicken wings are now CURRENTLY falling under “market price.”
This is the fork side of “field to fork” inflation, and the chicken wing price represents the outcome of a total supply chain under extreme inflationary pressure.
Keep in mind, what the farmer was sharing on Facebook, about the price of fertilizer and weed killer, are prices for the ‘next’ harvest, not the one he/she has already completed. The origin of the next harvest starts with components at prices 100 to 150 percent higher than the previous harvest.
Grain silos already loaded are carrying higher prices for the next several months, as the product flows through the supply chain and is used in the food production and feed of current ancillary users (manufacturers and protein providers). However, those prices are on the previous cost of production. When those grain silos need to be refilled, the next inbound harvest will have even higher costs.
When the current field inflation cumulates through the supply chain, the outcome will carry a price increase even higher than current.
I’ll bet there are a lot of restaurants visiting print shops to order new menus right now. By the time we get to Superbowl Sunday, the price of ¹chicken wings is going to bring sticker shock to those who have not prepared.
Last point…. If you’ve been wondering why there’s such a massive push from the communists toward “plant-based proteins“, and even meat grown in laboratories, this outcome is part of the reason. The climate change agenda -writ large- makes the traditional food supply skyrocket in price to unsustainable levels. The professional leftists have been using the Overton window to nudge people into accepting an entirely new diet.
[Same group pushing ‘tiny houses‘]
#Let’s Go Brandon.
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[NOTE: ¹More chicken wings are purchased in the days leading up to the Superbowl than any other time of year.]
Cat food shortage for real. Less popular brands I used to buy for an outdoor cat near work are gone. Pate versions are harder to find. Plenty of spongy looking bits in sauce but my cats don’t like it and I don’t know what the hell those bits are.
Buy canned Chicken at Dollar Tree and mix it with cooked rice in a blender to form a paste
Dollar Tree, now officially the $1.25 Tree.
Still, a good idea for a cat food alternative.
https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2021/november/dollar-tree-makes-it-official-items-will-now-cost-1-25
I am not defending Biden in any way, he is a disaster and his energy policies along with the $5 trillion dollar covid relief bill using all printed money CONgress passed are responsible for the current inflation. But realistically how much longer could the Dollar Tree keep the one dollar pricing? This comes as no surprise, it was bound to happen anyway.
I remember back in the 40s, 50s, the five and dime stores. They are now the $5 and $10 stores.
$ Gen shrinking packages while Big Box adds more for same price.
Folks,
Part of the smoke and mirrors is thinking that the POTUS is wholly to blame.
There are two houses in the Legislative Branch that are allowing,if not driving this, as well as the covid scam.
We kept voting for the lesser of two evils and now are getting what we darn well deserve.
Do you understand inflation? It’s called the hidden tax. Instituted by the Federal Reserve Bankster Cartel and approved by all the crony politicians who have become wealthy by supporting it.
Here’s a good way to understand inflation:
Question 1) How much does it take to buy a custom tailored suit today?
Answer: About one ounce of gold which costs around $1,950.00. The wage to make the suit plus materials.
Question 2.) How much did it cost to make that same suit in 1910?
Answer: One ounce of gold which cost in 1910 $20.67.
So the inflated cost of gold is almost 2,000%. The value of the gold is the same though, it still buys you a custom tailored suit but the dollar has weakened to the point that it takes more to purchase the gold thanks to the corrupt banksters and the FED Cartel, for getting our government to go into unsustainable debt by spending our finances for their crony donors, special interests and reelections; and to gain personal wealth. Which brings us around the circle to the retired person who gets to watch their hard earned money eaten away by the hidden tax of inflation. The wage he earned his retirement has long past and the buying power of his dollars have dwindled miserably.
Soon to be The Dollars Tree
Made in China?
Read the label. A great deal of what is is the Dollar Tree is from Canada.
Packaged in Canada is actually from China. That’s a method to bypass tariffs.
I don’t know any canned Chicken that doesn’t come from China.
Thailand is the source of the best, nearly-human-grade chicken cat food. Brands such as Weruva are made and packed there. Thailand is known in the veterinarian community to be a reliable source of top-quality wet pet foods (wet as opposed to kibble).
Better than edibles from china.
William read the labels. Some things are still made in the USA! I bought 1 gallon plastic jars to store staples in that are made in the USA and the price was still $1.
Terrible idea. Cats don’t need rice.
Yes, cats are obligate carnivores. Have to be careful what you give them.
Make sure the chicken wasn’t packed in China. Personally I wouldn’t eat anything that comes from the dollar store. I can buy a 5 dollar roast chicken from Costco and pick the meat off and mix it with rice for my cat for about the same money and it’s much better for her. I just freeze it in portioned sizes. She loves it.
Take a brand they like, read the ingredients, leaving outvall the chemicals you can’t figure out from googling, and make your own.
I know dogs LOVE, and benefit from cooked carrots, and I bet cat food isn’t all “salmon”, plentyvof veggies/grains.
Also, bear in mind while the idiots are touting “plant based PROTEINS, that WE actually need FATS, just as much as proteins.
If starving, and eating wild game animals, like deer or rabbits, for an extended time, you will die.
Such animals have VERY LITTLE body fat. Need to eat the BRAINS, which are almost “pure” fat.
ESSENTIAL fatty acids, remember.
Solid post, as always.
Most people are unaware of the need for good fat in their diet.
Cats can’t each large quantities of fish. They can get mercury poisoning. Meat is the best thing for cats
Cats have kidneys too. Too much protein is bad for them also. The three toughest diet components on kidneys are proteins, potassium and phosphorus.
Cats are carnivores, not omnivores like dogs are.
Essential nutritional ingredient for cats: TAURINE. If you make your own foods, find a way to add taurine.
Humans need fats, including their fat soluble vitamins, but it’s nonsense to state that humans couldn’t survive eating rabbits or deer because they don’t provide enough fat. It’s nutritional misinformation easily refuted by observable facts. Humans are omnivores. We can synthesize almost everything we need given the necessary ingredients including vitamins , minerals and essential amino acids. Humans can’t synthesize vitamin B12, a micronutrient, but there are old vegans who have fared better for several decades with B12 supplements or by adding nutritional yeast to their diets than those on the Standard American Diet that is high in fat as well as sugar and low fiber starchy foods.
There’s plenty of fat on deer. I keep and eat all the fat when I butcher wild deer, sometimes I’m eating as much or more fat than meat. I love eating fried pieces of fat. Delicious! There might not be a lot of marbling. But there’s tons of fat on a deer.
I also save anything I won’t eat to feed to the dog. She makes it most of the year eating just venison scraps and organs, such as liver, lungs, heart, kidneys… very little goes to waste. If you want cheap and healthy food for a dog, and you know someone that hunts, ask for all the scraps or offal they won’t eat.
Smart cats.
Try Chewy.com — no shortages (yet). We’ve got a few flats of cans laid in, however, just in case.
OMG the comment chain here! Sundance writes about farm to fork inflation and you all are distracted by cats (food)! Oh the irony!
What is the GOP going to do about this? If you are constantly blaming the democrats you are missing one of the reasons this blog exists IMO. Stop voting R, vote only MAGA.
I would have to amend your comment by saying that, if the choice ends up a MAGA vs a RINO in the Primary, vote MAGA. Do your best to help the MAGA candidate win. If the choice is MAGA or Demcommie in the General Election, vote MAGA and be a poll watcher armed with a video camera and don’t take crap off of any Demcommie. If the choice is RINO or Demcommie in the General Election, remember that is is your fault and vote RINO. There is still a big difference between a Communist and a RINO and you will have to hold your nose and vote like you have some common sense.
Sometimes I think people are easily blinded by being unable to settle for what is best for them under any circumstances. Sometimes in politics reality bites. But the reality of Communism will end your participation entirely.
The GOP are just sitting back so they can play the blame game. There are getting fewer and fewer worth voting for.
The actual producers of the grains, crops and proteins have very little to zero input or control of commodity prices. It is after commodities leave the farm and local market that the influence, concentration of ownership (big money), and control of value occurs. I am from a lifelong large farm family until total sellout 4 years ago after 6 decades (following generations of my ancestors). I know of what I speak.
As to the concentration of ownership of the crops mentioned above, generally the producers sell their crops into the local market. They in turn sell the commodity into an much smaller group and so forth, until the actual ownership of a crop is consolidated into a relatively small group. A very influential and powerful group. Of course that group is of the same mind set and ilk as the fine folks who are trying hard to ruin our once proud nation. Who isn’t these days?
The Ag community began to hear of, and heard, the dire predictions about the nations future through globalism in the late Seventies with the advent of the American Ag Movement. Many in Agriculture foo-fooed the information about the coming push for “free trade” and the globalism that followed. Things have unfolded just as predicted by the “conspiracy nuts” over the last 4 plus decades. During our second trip to DC to lobby Congress for a decent farm bill, the Fed Gov beat us over the heads and maced us, when we had a very peaceful parade/rally, with parade permits from the D.C. govt. and every blessing needed. When we had our very orderly and peaceful parade, The Riot squads attacked. I witnessed the riot cops beat old folks in their seventies down to the pavement with clubs and they maced everybody they couldn’t hit with their nightsticks. The way they treated patriots then and now makes me pretty hot. The local cops hated it but were powerless to the riot squads the feds brought in. One of the most civilized groups of people ever assembled were treated like evil heathens. The locals loved us because we helped so much during a the largest blizzard on record with our tractors pulling ambulances and fire trucks! (for free) Feb 1979. Look it up.
Don’t blame the producers for the higher prices. They are generally on the short end of the stick when it comes to
return on investment. The vast majority of producers operate on credit and must sell their crops upon harvest soon to pay off the debts and stop the interest, so they can start over with the next crop. That is the deal with their creditors generally. The producers take what the local market offers and not what they think is a fair or decent price. Mostly it is a poor price and it is almost always at its lowest when any particular commodity is in harvest season. Funny that. Producers are powerless and are the industry’s indentured servants it seems at times.
The Federal subsidy programs were established to keep the farmers in business and therefore have a cheap and stable supply of food and fiber for the (voting) consuming public. The actual farm vote itself is so insignificant that it is almost meaningless. The subsidies that keep the farmers in business, barely, are actually subsidies for the consumers so they can have cheap supply and plenty of it. It is the reason Americans have traditionally spent a far less percentage of their incomes on food than almost any other nation. Cheap and plenty food makes it much easier to get reelected don’t you know? Seems the commies,,,uh democrats, don’t care about cheap and plentiful supplies any more. Evil.
Disgraceful. Almost as bad when they shot the water cannons at our Bonus Army veterans. Who was President than Carter?
Carter was President at the time I spoke of. 1979.
As a fellow farmer I agree, I’m 62 and my 24 year old son is taking over. It’s going to be a bumpy ride. As an aside I’m in organics mainly dairy, our coop did some research and came to the conclusion that the organic price just about equals what the price of food would be if you figured in all the subsidies that the givimint hands out to fool people into believing in cheap food
Are they just trying to get the farmers to give up and sell there farms to Bill Gates?
I think it has more to do with control and the great reset being foisted upon us than anything else.
short answer, YES
Dont have time to look it up but I believe it was credited to one of FDR’s ag sec. “It would be easier to dictate policy to a small number of large farmers than a large number of small farmers”
From the way back machine, over 60 years ago every town of any size had their own locally owned dairy processor. If not then two or so really small towns shared one, there were many buyers and many small dairymen sellers, it was called a market, now with consolidation dairymen are left with maybe two choices and they all hide behind the government dairy program, so there is no leverage. Same for livestock, my paternal grandfather sold some of his best hogs to a local grocer who had his own slaughter house just like almost every other grocer, his excess went to a weekly auction where over 40 plus buyers competed for animals. When it finally closed in the 80’s only had two buyers left and they just took turns, everything else is raised on contract. The free farm market is and has DEAD for years
No farms no food. You control the food supply you control the people. I believe the war criminal & Rothschild agent the evil Henry Kissinger said that.
Where are you located? When the collapse comes I will be desperate for butter!! I need to locate myself near an organic dairyman…
Excellent information – thank you, d’man.
You’re absolutely correct. I too am a farmer. There is a large number of farmers growing the commodities relative to the number of next users down the line after the farmer sells. This leaves the farmer with little actual control as he just tries to keep his operation going, taking whatever price the market will offer him. The companies that own the commodities after they buy from the farmers hold the real power.
As a side note, wait till the farmland gets into too few of hands. This is when things will get very dangerous as a small number of people will control all aspects of food production.
Fertilizer plants around the globe are closing due to the engineered Nat Gas shortage. Third world agriculture is going to crash.
Next harvest will be bad. The following harvest will be a disaster. Biblical Famine in Asia, Africa and South America.
Actually there is no natural gas shortage, at least in the USA. Europe and others are short but only because they are let by stupid socialists/globalists. The Nat Gas export business in the USA in still in it’s infancy but we are already shipping LNG to Europe. Many Texas gas wells have been shut-in for years until recently because the price of nat gas has been in the toilet for years. The reason it has been in the toilet for years is because there was a great oversupply. Oversupply created in the early 2000s when the new horizontal drilling and massive fracturing technology used in the basin plays began to come nearer to perfection. That unleashed major reservoirs to our access. So suddenly we are in short supply? The only things I see in short supply are brains, logic, and truth.
The Farm Bill is supported by both parties. Republicans want to support the farmers, Democrats only support SNAP. Farmers need to stop voting for Democrats and allow Republicans to decouple the bill.
Long ago Farmers indeed voted dem. Nowadays, I do not know a single soul in Agriculture still voting dem, in my area of Texas. They vote the lesser of two evils, same as you and me. They aren’t stupid hayseeds as the MSM portrays.
We have not kept chickens for the past three years but that is changing. I have cleaned out the old chicken house and combined it with the old duck house that adjoins it. We will be loading up with chicks for both meat and eggs. I have also made a large garden where I am growing vegetables. Here in Florida we have two growing seasons as we are so far south. I advise all who are allowed to keep chickens and grow a vegetable garden to get off their butt and get going. The communist plan may well include purposeful food shortages. For our city dwellers, you can grow micro greens such as broccoli sprouts indoors in mason jars. Go to YouTube and do some research.
Be sure to have an ample supply of feed for your poultry, given the information in Sundance’s post. I stockpiled some, yet I need to go back to the feed store for more and I only have 4 hens.
Free Range, if you have the space, is the best alternative to constantly feeding. Your rate of growth is a bit slower but the quality of meat is much better than feed. Of course you have to be observant of predators more, but a good Great Pyrenees will go far to solve that.
I agree with you, Dave.
I don’t have the space for free range as I’m in a rural neighborhood. I let my hens out for an hour every day from their run into the 24′ x 8o’ “chicken yard.” Almost all the forage was burnt off last summer in AZ heat and the rest has been pecked away. The hens do get greens that I toss out, a few worms and bugs, as well as exercise and daily check-ups. My four hens are pets for eggs only (unless I’m nearing starvation, of course.).
Fencing takes care of all predators except hawks. I am the Great Pyrenees.
Good job devilbat. I am raising layers and meat birds this year. I am also going to raise meat rabbits and potentially quail. I buy beef locally. I have been stocking up on feed that is locally produced, and the hay and straw is local. Others may not know, but chickens will eat all your garden and kitchen scraps, which cuts down on feed costs. Rabbits will eat hay, although they like alfalfa pellets. I raise goats too, but they’re not meat goats. They are field grazers and their deposits enhance the soil. Waste from goats and rabbits is not “hot”, so can be directly put on the garden. Chicken waste must be composted. My garden will be fertilized with old manure and spent hay from a local rancher. My goal is to create a system that has few inputs, but we’ll see. I don’t buy commercial fertilizer relying on what the land and animals produce. I moved to an area where the growing season is long, the rain plentiful, in a rural community. I have grown the microgreens in jars and that’s definitely an option. I hope the enormous garden produces this year. We shall see if my efforts pay off.
My goal is to be able to close the gates should things get really rough and not have to go out. We shall see.
Sounds like a well considered plan!
I haul Anhydrous Ammonia. Last fall the price to farmers went from $600/ton to $1,500/ton in a little over 3 months. The price increases were telegraphed to the farmers, so this last fall I hauled more ammonia than probably the previous 5 years combined. Farmers usually knife it in during spring field prep, but most decided they wanted to beat the price increases sure to come by next spring. The CEO of CF Industries, one of the biggest ammonia producers, predicted a nitrogen shortage late last summer, due to a shortage of input ingredients. Its not pretty out in ag country right now.
You know what’s missing? Other than Susan Rice – who are the people pushing the agenda day to day (i.e., the hand up Biden’s back).
We need names.
Valerie Jarrett, Barack Obama, and Eric Holder. There are many, but the buck stops with this group of Communist clowns.
This ought to provide some names.
https://conservapedia.com/Biden_junta
Here are some who run DC/Bartertown.
https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2020/10/donors-top-2020-10/
My daughter went to HS with an Uihlein. They were very generous with donating land and money to her school.
Fertilizer prices will go up for home owners also. For me fertilizer is a large cost as I have 10 butterfly/bee/bird gardens on my property which are featured locally. And I give summer butterfly tours to many people. So fertilizer for yard, trees and bushes and flower gardens are all going up next year for people.
Some of my special organic fertilizer is hard to get this year, so I have been stockpiling it for next year. As of now I have all of my fertilizer needed for next year already bought and stored.
I have noticed a gentle price increase in the common fertilizer for yards that are often high in nitrogen. My guess is that fertilizer will be 25% higher next summer for many people for their yards.
If you want to see my butterfly gardens with monarchs in heavy feeding go
look at the videos on http://www.3b-restaurant.com/
For 3-4 weeks I get up to 100 or more Monarchs in my yard all day long.
I can’t get the link to work!?? :(. I wanna to see!!! Love butterflies. We live up on Lake Erie and a ton of different species pass thru during migration time. There is nothing better then to be out fishing for walleye…. shore is 10 miles inland and have a butterfly come fluttering thru to rest on the boat or fishing line before continuing on his journey! Love it!
This link may be active if you hold your cursor over this link
http://www.3b-restaurant.com/
Otherwise you need to cut and paste it into a browser
Here is my direct link to my garden video channel on Gab
https://tv.gab.com/channel/johndavidbell
Or this video example of one garden
https://tv.gab.com/channel/johndavidbell/view/my-best-short-video-monarchs-feeding-6021836b12de7b05f5dad665
Beautiful.
I’m a big Viburnum fan
Monarch butterflies only eat milkweed. They have had some declining numbers in recent years because of development in the Plains states and western states taking out their food source, but I heard they are rebounding.
In California I plant milkweed in the back of the garden and the monarch butterflies lay their eggs on the underside of the leaves.
Great fun for kids to watch as the caterpillars cycle into cocoons and hatch into butterflies.
Milkweed looks good in a vegetable garden too.
https://www.gardensall.com/monarch-butterflies-and-milkweed/
I have many more nice videos and pictures to post this winter from this years picture/video taking. Goldfinches are hard to video as they are very timid. But I have many good videos from this season. I had many (10-15) Goldfinches in my yard almost daily from early July though mid October. September was my peak Goldfinch month and I had about 30 goldfinches daily.
My key Goldfinch food plants are lanceleaf coreopsis (80 plants), purple coneflowers (130 plants), and meaddow blazingstar (165 plants). They really loved the meadow blazingstar this year and often the Monarchs on the new flowers and Goldfinches on the old seed flowers at the same time.
All of my bird feeding and butterfly and hummingbird feeding is all natural plants. I use no bird feeders or hummingbird feeders.
I have your first 2 but not the Blazingstar. Ill have to look that up. I just put in wood phlox, green, and golds, wood aster, Black Cohosh, and Blue-eyed grass. They are natives and will see how they turn out. Thanks for the info
Mmmm!
Love me some walleye.
Your garden flowers are beautiful. I love to see butterflies. They bring an instant smile to my face! Do you compost?
I have composted and the finished product is like black gold nutrients for the veggies and plants. Plus you can recycle the grass clippings, egg shells, coffee, leaves, bananas, and some vegatable scraps.
The biggest, tastiest tomatoes I grew had loam, compost, and peat tilled into my plot.
I compost in several large piles of ground up leaf, stump grindings, flower waste ground up and some minor food scraps. So I have about 6 cu yards of compost in several piles working now and some will be ready next year for a new flower bed I am adding.
If food availability becomes a problem I will quickly convert some of my flower garden space into food producing space for vegetables, blackberries, blueberries, and winter squash.
For the milkweed commenters here, I have 40 prairie (Sullivantii) milkweed plants in 4 groupings which the monarchs love. I have tested 6 different milkweed plants and my Monarchs prefer the Sullivanti milkweed above all others. And Sullivantii Milkweed is one of the prettiest and best behaved milkweeds..
Plant green beans in amongst the flowers. You get veg and the roots will fix nitrogen in the soil
Butterfly watching has been one of the fastest growing outdoor interests amongst bird watchers. Those Wind Farms (many run by China in Texas) kill many butterflies, birds, dragonflies, etc
Urine is a fantastic organic “free” fertilizer. Properly diluted of course.
25%, Try 100% or more. Lawn fertilizer is the same stuff farmers use, just mixed at different ratios. I’m a lawn chemical applicator and our prices at whole sale are going to be 100+% higher this spring. We will have to raise our prices 30-50% just to maintain the same profit margins(half the cost is labor, even that is going up…)
Thanks for the update from a professional point of view. I was just guessing and not trying to overshoot to scare people into fertilizer panic buying. (Which may happen next spring.)
Ok. I recall reading on another site many farmers claiming they would be out of business soon given rising prices of potash and other fertilizers. They key question, then, is what is driving up these prices. Is this all connected to energy price changes? A little research and it is easy to determine major potash producers.
https://www.ig.com/en/news-and-trade-ideas/top-potash-stocks-190930
Look at the top 4 on the linked table – note that two countries account for 75% of total reserves (circa 2018).
Or, is this a demand driven problem? In another blog I read it was noted China has essentially stocked the overwhelming percentage of maize this last year and has also bought a very large share of global grain product.
I’ld say it’s time for Sec Vilsack to explain to the American people what is going on.
This all stinks of China.
China is smartly hoarding all main ag products to feed its people. For China or any country, starving people cause mass riots. Wake up Biden people and get in the game!!
No question they are hoarding – in part because of flooding that wiped out a lot their domestic agriculture.
It’s time to stop pretending that growing corn to make alcohol to dump in gas is smart.
Try learning about what you speak of. The byproduct of ethanol production is distiller’s grain and pure CO2 which is used in industry and to carbonate your beverages. Distiller’s grain is a highly sought after animal feed. So it’s not food or fuel. It’s food AND fuel from the same bushel of corn.
It is times like now and the 70’s when I was a young man that make me appreciate my father. He raised us to understand money. He said money was power and it enabled you to do good things or bad, that is where morality comes in. He also taught us not to waste money and we celebrated getting a bargain. I still wear a pair of very expensive dress shoes I bought at a church rummage sale. Looking at the soles showed no indication they were ever worn. I call them dead man shoes a contribution from a widow. While some would be embarrassed to wear them, I thank my upbringing for being proud to have stretched my resources. In the inflationary period we are about to enter I thank my folks for the training. To be frugal, fix my own stuff, cook, do my own maintenance etc and never ever pay credit card interest or bank service charges!
Amen!
I grew up very poor…now I am a doctor… I still shop weekly in Goodwill…and not even the regular Goodwill, it’s the bargain Goodwill where everything is sold by the pound… I love my bargains…and I’m able to buy things I could never afford otherwise…in the last year I’ve gotten at least six pairs of Manolo Blahnik shoes, three or four pairs of Ferragamo shoes, several Coach bags, a Gucci bag, multiple other haute couture items…even a vintage Balmain sequined top….
Also, I buy household goods…I got a brand new kerosene heater, still in the box, for less than five dollars…a double burner Coleman propane camp stove for $.99…all at the Goodwill….and I will give you a pro tip, vacuum cleaners are rarely very good when they’re at Goodwill.
The less I spend on these kind of items, the more I have for food, etc…
Live below your means will always be true.
When it comes to agriculture and farming many the posters on this website become like Libtards with their cockamamie.
Agreed. So few understand how things really work in reality.
It is the same with politicians who set policy. Very few know their ass from a hole in the ground.
This is what’s so valuable about Trump. Trump is a one of a kind who does know what is correct or wrong about most things. Especially, when it comes to things which are the “Big Picture”.
What I admire about President Trump is that he asks experts questions when tackling an issue.
He doesn’t ask a politician.
I am not implying Trump is the only one for the job. However, Trump is the only one willing to do the job with what the job needs.
How many thousands of acres do you farm? Are you educated in agricultural science? The proof is in the pudding.
I was raised on a diverse small farm; chickens , turkeys, cows, calves, pigs, horses, tractors, cotton pickers, cotton, wheat, barley, alfalfa, corn, harvesters., hay balers. I majored in Agri-business but heavy in ag-science while in college.
I then graduated and worked for a large 8,000 acre farm as a manager trainee before going on my own with several partners . We farmed in Arkansas, Louisiana and Texas (mainly soybeans). We decided to go into Tree-Fruit and farmed 800 acres of; apples, cherries, plums, apricots, table-grapes, wine grapes, nectarines, peaches in California and Washington.
Agriculture is no different than any other industry in the sense there are those who know something about it and then there are those who think they know something about it, but in reality, they don’t know Jack-Shit.
So true Fangdog. It’s hard to read or listen to ignorance. I will say that many very good farmers and ranchers do not have a college education but are smart, wise and resourceful.
I know a man from very humble beginnings, with an 10th grade education, who became a billionaire. Not in Agriculture but in another hard work industry. Just an old farm boy, like me.
The biggest con-job in the World is thinking someone with an “education” and “college degree” are “smarter” than someone who does not have one. All it amounts to is perhaps the ability to bullshit better than the average bear.
Growing up, I worked on two dairy farms in Maryland. Both farmers had only a grade school education but were some of the smartest guys who had more common sense I knew. This was back in the ’60’s. They taught me a lot about animals and farming.
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Will the gutless GOP do anything about any of this crap when they take majority next year? If we can tamp down the fraud?
Oh, I see lots of suggestions about “Tiny Houses”. I’m not a fan of McMansions either but I will not live in a box with no possessions. Can you imagine trying to have Thanksgiving dinner with the family? Let the zealots live in their tiny closets.
Agreed, seems we are supposed to lower our expectations and our standard of living. It started with turn your thermostats from 72 to 68.
Now,…..live in a box in your Moms side yard.
Remember, soylent green is people.
Oregon’s ‘China owned’
Governor Kate Brown
has signed a Bill permitting the liquefaction or composting of deceased humans, to be used as soil amendment.
Oregon third state in U.S. to legalize human composting.
I’m cool with composting, the liquefaction producing a slurry (pink slime) to spray on my veggies?
Not so much.
SPECIAL REPORTS
Gov. Brown signed HB 2574 to make human composting legal in 2022
Natural gas accounts for 75% to 90% of operating costs in the production of nitrogen. The cost of natural gas in the UK got so high some fertiliser plants shut up shop. Of course the Greenies have made the UK and Europe se very dependent on non-reliable wind and solar that they need natural gas to keep warm in the winter. So now food production has to compete with the need to keep warm.
This is Biden’s energy policies. Everything grown, everything manufactured, everything transported, every service, somehow uses energy. In his effort to push everyone to electric vehicles, he is destroying every part of the economy. Biden and the rest of his Administration can’t see past the end of their own noses.
“Biden and the rest of his Administration can’t see past the end of their own noses.”
Oh yes they can. The problem is, their noses point in the direction of Tyranny.
I’m hoping the high price of Roundup will be enough pressure for another less toxic weed control method (burners, goats).
Roundup and food should never be on the dinner table.
Roundup crosses the blood brain barrier and it is found circulating in babies while still in utero.
Roundup is nontoxic. It biodegrades in a matter of days. It doesn’t transfer through the soil and it’s one hell of a lot(orders of magnitude) cheaper than using propane burners. I’m not even going to address the stupidity of using goats…
ewg.org
Round-up gets a bad rap from dumb-shits who do not know shit from shinola.
Wow!
That is all I can say about your comment.
We even tried geese at one time…what a disaster it turned out to be….burners and goats do not know the “good” plant from the “bad” plant. It is hard enough trying to teach humans the difference.
It is a sad commentary that you have to explain this to the American idiots. God help us.
Every supermarket and grocery store in the Bucks County PA area ( a Philadelphia suburb) has mostly empty pet food shelves.
Once again, thank you Sundance for the explanation.
Weird how they still use roundup while television ambulance chasers push class action lawsuits due to the harm it causes.
IT DOESN’T CAUSE HARM. There’s been no actual proof that roundup actually hurts anyone. There was a single court case in CA that “linked” it to one person’s cancer. If you read anything about the case the idiot wasn’t using it properly for years. ANYTHING can cause cancer when abused.
Fertilizer and weed killer should not be used to produce food anyway!
Where do you propose to get the soil nutrients for the food if not from fertilizer? You do know that fertilizer is just naturally occurring minerals right?
No they are not aware, so far we have learned in this string that ruminants have two stomachs and round up can leach through the soil, three inches of lead and can travel through the air miles from intended target…… this is why it’s safe to say we are in trouble. Shall we discuss adjuvants lol……
The ignorance is astounding.
And liberals should not be breathing out CO2 because it is good for trees. How dare they help a tree. Lol
And to top it off, I guess we should not plant soybeans, because they put nitrogen in the soil,
Which is Fertilizer.
The plant can only take-in nutrients broke down to one form. It cares less if that one form is inorganic or organic.
I swear the Libtards on this website?
That is about as dumb a comment about fertilizer and weed killer which can be made.
I see things a little more sinister.
This is an opportunity to bankrupt the smaller farmers. Then the conglomerates gobble up the farmland.
Control all the food and you own the country.
They did the same thing with rent moratoriums, drove the owners bankrupt and the conglomerates like BlackRock bought up the property for pennies.
No I see all this as a invasion but without firing a shot.
Mussolini stated that fascism is government and big business joining hands.
Four deer in freezer this year.
“Moochies Way”? I didn’t realize Missus Obama owned a restaurant.
I sale cattle feed in Central FL. Grain prices took a dramatic leap in cost last January 27th. The Biden administration allowed for the release of strategic grain reserves for the largest single grain sale in the history of earth. at the same time as a drought in the mid west. All of the reserves moved to China, so I was told. Since that time, prices have continued to skyrocket. A load of feed that cost $6000.00 in February 2021 now cost $10,000. My customers that purchase these products have clearly seen a resulting rise for what they raise and get paid for. My customers are tough and have been through a lot in the last 25 years. They are all “hunkered” down and are trying to hang on to what they have! Hopefully, all of this can start to change after the upcoming elections!
Why is fertilizer going up? Because it requires ammonia to produce. What is both the feedstock and the fuel for ammonia production via the Haber Process? It’s methane, aka natural gas. No pipelines, no fracking equals less natural gas. The Haber Process consumes something around 5% of NG use, and NG cost is (that is, was) half the cost of producing ammonia.
Thanks for the Roundup in our food.
The article overlooks the fact that 40% of the corn harvest is used in the production of ethanol. Last year corn went to a little over $4/bu. Early this year it hit just over $8/bu and settle in at around $5.50/bu. Beyond the ridiculous reduction of petroleum by the BuDum administration ethanol has an impact at the pump as well.
This has to be delibrate the meat packing plants are driving out smaller processing plants forcing ranchers to take less and less for their cattle per pound. They are forcing us into plant only diets……….
BTW you can’t just mix up cat food or dog food with out adding certain necessary additives for a healthy diet. Look up Taurine for both animals and humans.
This, like nearly every analysis of inflation I’ve seen recently, does not discuss the extremely wide-ranging effect of the huge increase in the cost of fossil fuels due to Brandon’s insane attempts to eliminate them.
At every step in the production and manufacturing processes, the cost of fossil fuels is involved. The power to run equipment, to keep the lights and heat on in factories, to deliver the raw materials and the parts made elsewhere, to shipping to the wholesalers and retailers and the energy those intermediaries require to operate, et al, are burdened by the fuel price increases.
This doesn’t include the products themselves – many thousands of products in common use have petroleum as a basic ingredient in the products themselves. Take a look sometime at the lists available on the internet.
Even if there were no other causes for inflation (there are many others, most caused directly or indirectly by government), a doubling of the price of fossil fuels will ripple up through the economy with disastrous consequences.
Please go away, Brandon…and take the rest of the Communist leeches infecting the nearly every facet of America with you.
Brandon can take some of the ignorant posters on this website with him.
People put themselves into this predicament. Relying on food from far away, and goods in general, is what allows these issues to come about.
I live by Amish neighbors and other local farners/providers. No buying chemical ferts. Grass fed beef. Things made and produced locally. Yet to have a shortage on the staples and see no reason for any in the future.
Summer crops etc are put away and winter crops ( yes you can grow winter crops even in in the northeast) will provide.
Bring back victory gardens and more home raised meat and you’ll see there really is no problem other than the reliance on others
Judging by some of the ignorant comments by some of the posters on this website. The “victory” gardens would be “disaster” gardens.
In much of Asia, dogs are eaten as a source of very cheap protein. Rats also. Coming to America?
Maybe this is a wake-up call. Maybe we shouldn’t continue to use Round-up and chemical fertilizers. How about going back to natural manure farming? Do you think pumping chemicals into the soil year after year is good for us? Eventually there is a toll to pay. How about the rise in cancer and other diseases?
I was in the Costco business center in Orlando yesterday. I purchased NY Strip steak (roast) for $7.50/# and Top Sirloin was $3.79/# in whole chunks of meat. There is NO WAY it makes sense to eat out any longer. Even buying good hamburger (free range) I spent $5/# which works out to $1.25/burger plus bun. Compare to over $10 at a decent restaurant.