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.]
I cant even stand looking at biden anymore. Just dry up and blow away already.
Biden is just the puppet. He does not have an effin’ clue. It is Obama, Big tech, Big Media, Big corp., Big Marxism, Big finance, democrats, UniParty and the Global elite trying to pull of the real insurrection and coup. F em’ all!
Here is a list of the entities who run the D side of Bartertown/DC
Ranking the Most Influential Democratic Donors in the 2020 Race
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/08/most-influential-democratic-donors-2020-elections.html
Without the corrupt government listening to their bribery/lobbying they would have no say.
Honestly, I’m tired of O getting credit.
indeed. His handlers maybe. Not him.
i have been giving this a lot of pondering lately as to who could wield the power to destroy this country. It has to be an entrenched military and intel. DARPA. CIA.
Obama was just a puppet, too. He just wanted to smoke dope, snort coke and pose for photographs, he didn’t want to work, constitutionally incapable.
Kinda Karmala with a dick (?)
A FIGUREHEAD, as was Bush before him, and Clinton before him.
I just want it to happen live ….which may be why most everything is pre-recorded and staged.
They just want to deny my dream.
That’s the sort of menu you’ll see in hyperinflation. No prices, they won’t be printed. Prices can change multiple times a day.
And the rule of thumb is, if you don’t see prices on a menu, you probably can’t afford it. Sad times for our country…
Wings used to be almost a throw away before the old wing dings came into vogue. In retirement now, one might have to consider food stamps to get enough to eat!
Legs have more meat and are cheaper per pound.
same with ham hocks and beef tongue at one point, preferred in Mexican food….when demand went up the price skyrocketed
Until a lady in Buffalo came up with the idea of tossing them in a hot sauce! YUM!
Just like the price at the gas pumps. One price on the way to work and a higher price when you’re on the way home.
Rember when “Market Price” on the menu used to be reserved for just Lobster and King Crab legs?
Prices are moving so fast we went from legs to wings.
Wing prices went up so much they went to “The Other White Meat”, chicken breast, calling them boneless wings.
Higher wing prices will force more boneless wings raising the price of chicken breasts making boneless wings unaffordable.
Next up in the logical progression of things will be new only other white meat left. We will call them “Tail Wing Gunners”. That is right because chicken tails are necessary for flight to take place. If breasts can be wings, then why not a tail since tails actually have flight feathers.
My father-in-law was a commercial fisherman in Alaska for decades…he used to bring home BOXES of King Crab legs just for snacking around the kitchen table with melted butter. Man, I miss those days, for a lot of reasons!!
Like anything else, enough is enough. When I lived in FL i got tired of crab.
In New England prisoners revolted having been fed too much lobster.
I have never gotten to the point where I have had too much crabmeat…hope I never do, to be honest! But, I am a crab snob – I will eat Alaska King Crab straight from the shell with butter, but for anything else (crab-cakes, Fettuccine, open-faced sandwiches, crab omelettes, etc) it has to be Dungeness or I ain’t biting!
when the Dutch and later the English settled Manhattan, lobster was considered a commoner’s food and very cheap…the lower part of the island contains a lot of lobster shells in its landfill
“If you have to ask, you can’t afford it”..
Eventually, workers pay works the same way, as the govt changes the minimum wage from $10,000 to $12,000 over your lunch break.
Of coarse, that morning a box of cereal cost $ 1.2 million, on the way home its $4 mil,…
My grandmother’s father emigrated from Austria between the world wars.
He told her stories of how, on pay day, people would quit work early and go spend their pay checks; if they waited until the end of the day to spend their pay, it wouldn’t buy as much because prices increased throughout the day.
History repeating itself?
they can easily inflate away the debt from their profligate spending though….too bad so many of the “little people” have to suffer the consequences
Translate this early inflation to what it will mean this summer when it comes time for picnics … of PB&J’s washed down with water.
If you can get the J better not flash it around, too dangerous.
What do you think is going to happen when the GHETTO QUEENS with 5 kids can’t fill up their shopping carts anymore with their EBT cards? That is when you will see rioting like never before all over the country.
Not if the food is directed to those districts!
Most don’t use EBT cards to buy groceries. Most of those kids grow up with empty fridges.
Many depend on the schools feeding their kids.
But crack dealers all take EBT!
Who needs EBT cards anymore? Keep your total “purchase” under $950 and you can shoplift whatever you need without penalty (sarc).
Skinny kids but fat mamas?
Biden increased welfare payouts by 25% earlier in the year. Now I think I know why. As history has shown, when confronted with a potential survival situation, most of them will be looting electronics stores, or shoe stores. Grocery stores don’t stock Nikes.
In Western democracy installed By Joe Slovo & Co South Africa, the only store at the mall not looted was the book store.
in Demolition Man, all restaurants are Taco Bell… so decent neighborhoods will have to make all their stores book stores…
They can smash and grab.
I’m waiting for the first prosecution of a smash and grab non-minority that uses racism as a defense.
Peanuts are both water and nutrient intensive. I have grown them. Wonderful and easy except for those 2 things…. It’ll likely be 2 pieces of govt bread with a slice of govt cheese in the middle washed down by water you collected from your rain barrel….
The problem is that the farmer’s do not set the price of what they produce, the market does. I see tough times for farmers over the next year or three.
Farming is the only business where all your raw materials are purchased at retail and your product is sold at wholesale.
I have the utmost respect for farmers.
I retired from growing beef on my small scale operation last year. Two years out of forty five had good prices for calf producers. High fuel, equipment and taxes have made it easy to make my decision. Middleman gets the profit in the higher burger and steak prices you are seeing. Still have a couple cows for my own consumption.
Now is not the time to quit, but sell shares in your cattle! Have you seen how many Youtubers proudly show off their quarters and halves? I’d gladly take a quarter from anyone local
Can anyone remind us again as to who now owns a significant amount of arable land i. the United States?
That would be…. Billybob Gates!🤠
This could be a strategy for farmers to go broke and sell their farms to Gates, Zucker and Blackrock.
Blackrock is on the list of comrades & satanic corporations who run Bartertown
Maybe farmers should set up their own conglomerates!
I’m living in rural Canada. I know the farming community. I love them, but seriously, these guys have pit profit ahead of the health of the land for years.
Very little crop rotation. Beans, corn, wheat, repeat.
They tear out fence lines. They drain swamps. They have pillaged the land God entrusted to them.
They will reap the errors of their ways. God decreed seventy years in Israel to give the land the rest it deserved.
DD
Yup. I notice the farmer above is complaining about the cost of Roundup. His products are laced with poisons. Great for Big Pharma, of course – owned by the same conglomerates that own Big Agri. Get us coming and going. I don’t eat any of this farmer’s products, but I expect organic foods will rise in price also. All in the Plan. If we won’t take their “vaccines”, they’ll starve us.
I agree. The first thing that jumped out was Roundup. We avoid his products and buy only organic (when possible) going so far as to having developed relationships with individual farmers. We’re used to paying more for certified organic and at least the profit goes to the hard working farmer that sells locally.
I’m from Maine. We grow potatoes. I have grown up beside and worked on farms that were there 40 yrs ago and still going strong. I can tell you from the farmers mouth, “organic” is more of a psy-op than you would ever believe. There ain’t nothing organic unless you grow it yourself. I watch my neighbor triple his profits by labeling Organic and he laughs at the dinner table and all the way to the bank.
“Organic” is a marketing tool. There is no lab which can distinguish between an organically grown fruit and vegetable or an inorganically grown fruit and vegetable.
If all the worlds food supply was produced organically there would be mass world famine. Keep in mind; sick cows give sick milk. Have you ever heard the word; “Mastitis”.
Inorganically produced food is more safe than organic grown. I have farmed both because of “markets”. Basically, I don’t want to eat food “bugs” have been defecating in and on it.
Hmmmm. . .
Who owns Whole Foods?
Oh yea, that Bezos douche bag.
Be must surely be looking out after the health and well-being of Mr. and Mrs. Main Street.
Few months back I saw reporter interview customers as they left Whole Foods. Asked the folks if they were happy paying more money for frozen veggies. Everyone said they were… Until the reporter pointed out those veggies were grown in China
They all got that 1,000 yard stare.
Plus, organic is not regulated. Any grower can claim it and you won’t know the difference.
Not at all true. The term organic as used in packaging is very regulated. The word you’re thinking of that is unregulated is “natural”.
Buy grown in Mexico produce.
https://sustainablepulse.com/2020/06/27/mexico-announces-phase-out-and-ban-on-glyphosate-herbicides/
DDT is still on the menu down there.
In Amerika too….black market.
Not me. Growing my own food. Got more eggs than I know what to do with from my layers, garden plot prepped for spring and seeds purchased. Getting ready to get my meat rabbit setup going. Got my canner and dehydrator ready for harvest. Anyone can do it if they’re willing. A house in the suburbs can grow almost all a family needs if done correctly.
For those that aren’t willing, I guess there’s always lab meat.
True… if the suburb allows such production. Most suburbs only allow for three chickens not raising rabbits and such. Spent all my preteen years on a farm without running water and without electricity. It can be done; but it is a job. We cooked all on wood stove… the wood now might be an issue to come by and CA has very strict burn day regulations for fireplaces etc. I put in a small wood stove where my fireplace used to be.
Without that Roundup and GMO seeds, the yields are much lower while the inputs such as seed and fertilizer remain the same. The soils must be tilled instead of no till planing increasing diesel fuel use. There are more over the top applications of chemicals that are not as effective as Roundup. Bottom line, more expensive to produce less crop. Corn is goes up even more.
Corn and soybeans (wheat is another story) it is mostly not even human food. It is food for animals.
A lot of that roundup will be used off label to “dry” the crops prior to harvest.
Many of us are starving to death fat. Poisoned slowly…
Just wheat. Learn what you are talking about. I said wheat was another story.
I have farmed. My family farms. I know about soil compaction. Nothing worse than combining freshly dropped fawn. Sorry if I wasn’t specific enough for you.
Wasn’t meant to be a personal attack.
Great point. I said much the same.
Round up is used as a desiccant on wheat (dries it out and inhibits mold growth). I don’t agree with it, just explaining something most folks don’t know.
Just think of the bread, cereal, etc you eat wasn’t even alive the last time glyphosphate was used on it…meaning the plant couldn’t even attempt to break down the poison before it was harvested. Just sprayed on when the plant is dead then off to the mill where all it’s yummy goodness can be evenly spread around….
As a small farmer/rancher there are so many practices that just astonish me
It is not sprayed on the dead plant. It is sprayed on the mature plant to kill it so that the entire field is dry enough to harvest early and at the same time. That said, the practice may be harmful but it does increase yield by preventing losses from wheat that is beaten down and can not be harvested.
Organic is always higher priced in our grocery stores.
If you knew what it takes to profitably grow organic you would know “why”. For one thing your per acre production is cut to about half. Plus the “bugs” eat half of that.
Which makes you look at the hypocritical Dems once more who moan that too much land is taken up by farming!
The point is – this is the way it is done, not necessarily the way it should be.
And with this method, there is going to be significant inflation and shortage of food – Sympathy for the farmer or not.
Huh? You might want to actually read about crop rotation; it’s purpose IS to maintain the health of the land. (I’m not going to bore you or this audience with the whys…the information is easily found online.) Btw the usual rotation order is field corn (year 1), soybeans (year 2), then oats or wheat (year 3)…repeat, which is why it’s called crop rotation. I’m curious what other crops you think a grain farmer should plant?
Tear out fence lines?! Yes, we tear out fence lines. Seventy years ago when family farms were smaller, even grain farmers had pastures for a couple family milk cows or steers raised for the family freezer so pasture fences were necessary to confine livestock. However, fences serve no purpose today on a grain farm. And no grazing animals (cattle, draft horses, sheep, goats, etc.) on a property means fence lines quickly become choked with scrub trees, briars, etc. Eventually, those invasive plants take over the wire fences and begin to spread into the field decreasing the land that can be worked. I’m curious…what harm is caused by a farmer removing a falling-down wire fence choked with mulberry and other trash trees?
Drain swamps? “Wetlands” are protected, and there are severe legal penalties for messing with them. Yes, farmers install drainage tile in fields with certain soils/conditions so they can get into fields to work the fields without getting equipment stuck, compacting the wet soil, etc. Is there something wrong with that?
You may know the farming community, but you might want to educate yourself about farming before you throw stones at the folks who produce our food.
Thank you.
Yes, I live in proximity to a lot of farmland in Ohio. You are able to recognize the years that either have corn or soybeans growing in a given year. I actually trust the farms that use pesticides over the listeria ridden organic farms. There are an abundance of farmers who place different placards for the crops they yield each year in Ohio.
The old fence lines do serve good purposes. They help prevent erosion, slow down the winter winds, and provide food and cover for wildlife. I don’t begrudge mother nature just a bit of my ground. I’ve watched fence rows disappear and the quail with them.
I agree that this is a problem across the board. The current conventional practices have depleted the nutrients and killed the soil. Regenerative farming practices should be the way forward, but I’m afraid many do not want to go that way.
Rock dust. Survival of Civilization
We are Weimar Republic 2.0. Hyperinflation, hypersexual degeneracy. But thank God we aren’t speaking German. Right??
If our enemies get their way, it will be Arabic. General Patton was correct and figured it out, and was assassinated for that reason
Spanish.
Chinglish.
I am so done with this fraudulent admin, just stick a fork in me and take me away. Dear Lord, please take care of my children.
Let’s Go Brandon!!!!
The farmer should NOT be using Roundup
It causes cancers
Lymphomas
It is not just what it is, but when Roundup is used. During planting season, it is used to kill weeds early in growing season. gets diluted by rain while crops sprout and grow. Much worse, using roundup on weeds around full-grown plants a few days or weeks before harvest. Big Ag farming: Those packaged cereal grains your children love, oh, my-my-my.
“The farmer should NOT be using Roundup.”
He will use it less and less as a result of the pressures being brought by the number of lawsuits against Roundup, encouraged by the attorney ads 24/7 for people to get their share of the loot.
Roundup is effective for controlling things that are otherwise not easily controlled. When Roundup is no longer legal and the lack of alternative weed control simply drives many farmers out of business, farms will cease to exist and there will be little need for Roundup. In the meantime, those who want Roundup-free food can buy organic, I suppose.
The huge, worldwide, agricultural financial groups (and their offshoots) with whom most farmers have contracts for their harvests… also have (I suspect) connections with worldwide pharma.
When they outlawed tobacco, I didn’t say anything because I don’t smoke.
When they outlawed alcohol, I didn’t say anything because I don’t use alcohol.
When they drove farmers who used Roundup out of business, I didn’t say anything because I thought the farmers were irresponsible and I could get my food somewhere else.
When they outlawed medications I needed,
I didn’t say anything because…..oh……wait……………..As it all grinds to a halt and there’s not enough food to go around, the cancer rates will go down just like cancer diagnoses have gone down in the last two years because screenings were no longer happening.
Bad farmer.
http://www.naturalbuildingblog.com/rock-dust-gardening/
Yep, I hear tell that it’s a new improved Agent Orange.
In the small-farm area I live the locals farmers tell me …“it’s not the Roundup you gotta worry about, it’s the GMO plants they made to survive the Roundup.”
If farmers did not use over the top herbicides there would not be enough food to eat. It is as impossible to feed everyone with organic farming as it is to provide all of our energy with solar and wind.
Funny thing is, solar that is “grid tied” makes ABSOLUTELY no sense, and yet building my own solar system, not grid tied, is a real $ maker.
As for food, using Aquaponics (look it up) I can produce my own meat, fruits, veggies,herbs and without buying fertilisers or pesticides.
So, a BETTER product, that costs an initial investment, of time and $ to set up, and then much less input, in time and $, and overall the food is less expensive, better for me, not subject to inflation.
All the “stocking up” just postpones the inevitable, if “things” don’t “return to normal” before you use up your “stock”.
Self-sufficiency, thats the goal to strive for.
Not enough food to eat: could be a (very harsh) solution to America’s obesity problem.
Absolutely. I’m just inside the Wheat belt in NW South Dakota, our hard red spring wheat (highly desired by Millers) would not survive to harvest without proper herbicide application. Nor would the corn, sunflowers, soybeans, flax, canola, and other specialty contracted crops in these Great northern plains. Been a Custom Applicator for 14 yrs( multiple 120ft boom CaseIH self propelled sprayers) and worked with some sharp Agronomists and Producers. Between invasive species, weed resistance to herbicides, hail, and a constant range of drought/wet conditions, having a crop to get into storage bins takes experience, some luck and a bunch of gambled money. Sundance didn’t even mention anhydrous ammonia, which has almost tripled since last year. Roundup?? Glyphosate, in my opinion, is a mild chemical in relation to others that I use. Home gardeners can blend up a soap and salt solution to do the same thing, no lingering residual. We’ve got a little more on our plates to concern ourselves with than getting cancer from a loaf of bread. FJB.
I apologize, anhydrous ammonia was mentioned.
Seriously? Before glyphosate the cancer rate was 1 in 8. Today? 1 in 2 will get cancer. I guess if you think you’ll be in the 50% who don’t get cancer you think it’s ok. Having had cancer, I disagree.
https://sustainablepulse.com/2020/06/27/mexico-announces-phase-out-and-ban-on-glyphosate-herbicides/
I get a kick out of people who don’t know the difference between a corn row and a cotton row telling farmers how to farm.
Dawg,
You give them too much credit. They don’t know the difference between a corn row and a corn dog.
They’re like, corn rows a hair style. Duh. Quit being racist.
Farmers don’t set the prices that they will get. They will be hurt more than most which is why the family farm is close to extinction.
Then its time for the farmers to open their gates to the customers! FK Walmart!
A lot of farms do sell directly to consumers…..
Depends on you are growing as to success. A friend of mine tried it with strawberries. You never know when people nay show-up. A bus load when the straw berries still green. Only the mailman when the strawberries were ripe…..that ended the “sell direct to customers”.
Strawberry plants by mail order?
Well, my experience was, the days after school was over for the year, we would go to a local farm and pick strawberries. We would then have to clean all of the flats we picked, and my Mom would can preserves for the year, and for gifting to friends and family. Simpler times (and I dreaded it as I got older and wanted to enjoy summer break), but I do still eat strawberries.
Not grain farmers.
We need more of them!
And the price they will get will be determined by market prices. Not supermarket. Grain market. Finished products are different. Most farmers sell bulk only as they have to. My little farm produced about 675,000 pounds of corn this harvest. 60 acres, 200 bu / acre. How do you suppose I am going to sell that directly?
This discussion is about grain farming, not farmer’s markets.
Dining out will be a thing of the past. Subsequently, less wait staff, hostesses and dishwashers. Aside from the decrease in lower level jobs, will be the 3 to one rule in most areas. For every higher paying job lost, technical, healthcare, manufacturing etc, 3 service, support type jobs are lost. We’re heading into high 20s or higher unemployment numbers.
In the past month, we have visited some of our “favorite” restaurants. Not so favorite, anymore. The food is somewhat palatable, and the service is not worthy of the 20% we tip. It stinks, but I can create a meal at home for way less than what I receive dining out.
“Dining out” will be like it was in the ’30’s….NEVER! …except for the very, very rich somewhere.
All of it because Orange Man Bad and we won’t bow down.
For treepers responding to this Sundance article by thinking;
“Holy inflation, batman! WHAT am I gonna DO, to feed me and mine, down the road?
HAVING this info, of whats coming, WHAT can I do, NOW?
Firstly, as Sundance has been urging, STOCK UP.
(And by the way, once you have stocked up on food, consider consumable auto supplies; an “extra” setvof brakepads, enough oil and tranny fluid (bought in gallon containers, NOT quarts) and oil filters, etc.
Anyway, back to FOOD. Sundance has focused on PROTEIN (meat) and if coarse thats important, but fruits, grains and veggies will be rising astronomically, as well.
Grains are not generally practical, to “grow your own”, as only a very small part of the plant will be edible (wheat, rice specifically). Research into buying and storing, long term these grains is available online.
For the rest, research AQUAPONICS.
Briefly, AP uses the systems developed for hydroponic growing, but instead of using purchased chemicals in the water circulated to the plants, fishtank water is used, instead.
Fish water, without all the filters etc used to “maintain” an ornamental fish tank, is full of well,…fish poop and pee.
Which is full of Nitrates, which if the levels get high enough, will kill the fish.
(Thats why ornamental fish tanks HAVE all the filters, etc.)
But, their is a bacteria, that grows on the grow beds of the plants; it digests (“eats”) the Nitrates and excretes(yes, poops out) Nitrites, which is an excellent source of nitrogen (FERTELISER !) for the plants which gobble it up, so that “clean” water gravity feeds back to the fish.
So, the fish fertilise the plants, the plants keep the water clean for the fish, you set up and maintain the system, and harvest bountiful fruits, veggies, herbs and fish.
It is infinetly scalable, from small, tabletop designs, to balcony of a rented apartment, all the way up to commercial operations.
Like anything new, there is a “learning curve”, best to get several books (local library, or used book stores) familiarise yourself with the principles and basics, start small, and your “catastrophic” learning mistakes will also be small, and then build on your basic system, applying the lessons learned.
In 6 months to a year, you could be totally avoiding the food riots in the grocery store, as people fight over the last can of peas, by growing far healthier food, yourself.
This guys gets it!^^^^^. The only thing I would add is while aquaponics is awesome, there are other options. If you have front lawn and a back lawn, it needs to be converted to food production. Meat rabbits are a great option for protein. They’re quiet, low cost to entry and don’t take much space. And they breed like, rabbits.
in SOME areas, potbellie and other breeds of mini pigs are “allowed”; just get two, and call them pets.
Can feed them MOSTLY table scraps, litter box train them, and they taste GREAT.
Porkchops, and Spare ribs, just to remind US that they REALLU aren’t pets, ..
Aquaculture is a great way to spend a lot of money to starve to death. It is a very difficult business that involves daily monitoring of chemistry and temperature and oxygen. Works good when you get it right. Hard to get right. And you better learn to like tilapia.
I have been involved with the business through family for years. It is hard to keep fish alive in confinement much less grow them. And hatching new ones is nearly impossible small scale. Most feed operations buy fingerlings.
Almost went to school for aquaculture. Florida Tech it was if I remember right. Always been into ponds.
While killing time at Whole Foods yesterday (why else would I go there? And besides, it was raining heavily), I noticed a sticker on the window of the refrigerated display case for eggs, “informing” (propagandizing) shoppers about the “trend” (so they say) toward reduced consumption of animal-based foods. Apparently, eggs are now to be purchased only as a rare delicacy.
What a whacky store. They want people to skip actual whole food (the name of the freaking store!) and buy manufactured, chemically stabilized, hyper-processed plant garbage.
At least ruminants have two stomachs to digest all that grass.
I’ve been through a whole foods once or twice. Those people look downright pasty.
They are fully masked fully brainwashed Liberal Project Monarch zombies.
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They are already half dead but just do not know it yet
I used to sell commercially grown (Inorganic) fruit to Whole Foods. They displace both inorganic and organic. The display difference was tremendous. I asked why they bought inorganic? The answer was they would go broke if they didn’t offer both.
As a side note; I did notice the patsy parlor complexion of their customers. Lol
Yes, I am very conscious to the it gets down to we only sell fruit which have “pretty faces”. At the packinghouse the only fruit which go in the box are the ones with pretty faces the rest are “culled”. However they taste the same and often times better because they were riper.
Creepy and hypocritical shopping. Communists paying $10 for white sliced that is $4 next door!
But the Green zombies think they are doing good by shopping there and paying more
Our local nursery went out of business earlier this year because their supplier couldn’t get materials for their potting soil.
I hate hearing that stuff. These Democrap demons are pure evil and full of hate for all Life
These UNIPARTY demons are pure evil and full of hate for all Life
FIXED it! PLEASE do NOT fall for the Uniparty ruse.
The Dems job is to be blatantly in your face,…SO THAT you get so pissed at them,…that you vote for their partner in crime, who is pissing down your leg and telling you its raining.
And you vote for this Republicon/Decepticon, (who works in close partnership with the “Democrap” ) because “hey, at least he’s not a Democrap!”
Agreed, you’d think by now everyone particularly at CTH understood there is no difference between Democrats and Republicans
If we truly did have two opposing political parties things wouldn’t be as they are.
Two can not walk together unless they agree.
They need to stop using Roundup. Try Rock Dust. Biodynamic farming.
“No difference in beneficial outcomes has been scientifically established between certified biodynamic agricultural techniques and similar organic and integrated farming practices. Biodynamic agriculture lacks strong scientific evidence for its efficacy and has been labeled a pseudoscience because of its reliance upon esoteric knowledge and mystical beliefs.” Wikipedia.
Rock dust may remineralize the soil but it does nothing to affect crop yields. It is not a fertilizer.
Bread from Stones by Dr. Julius Hensel
“During the course of his researches, Dr. Hensel found that in the primeval rocks, as granite, lie a potentially inexhaustible supply of all minerals required for the feeding and regeneration of the soil, plants, animals and man. All that is required is to reduce them to finely pulverized form, so that their mineral elements may be made available to plants. Hensel wrote a book describing his discovery of a new method of creating more perfect fruits and vegetables, rich in all nutritional elements and immune to disease and insect pests, with the result that it produced worm-free fruit without the need of spraying. The foods so produced by rock-meal (rock dust) fertilization were true Organic Super Foods, far superior in flavor and value than those produced under the forcing action of manure or chemical fertilizers.
http://www.naturalbuildingblog.com/rock-dust-gardening/
I do not question that the fruits and vegetable may have better mineral density. That is not the question. The question is whether there is enough yield to feed people. You might be able to grow better foods but can you grow enough of them?
Perhaps not, but fishtank water IS fertiliser; ever have a fish pond? Try NOT growing anything near it!
And, all it costs is fish food, and you can reduce that, if you use lights to attract BUGS, which is mostly what fish eat, anyway.
I have 6 ponds, three well stocked and fed by springs. About 6 acres of water total. Between fish, frogs and turtles, I will be fine. They find enough to eat without my help.
Wow 6 ponds? Awesome. Do you get any migrant waterfowl? I used to have Wood Ducks & Mallards fly over my house most evenings going to the ponds and lakes in my area where I grew up
Yes. Lots of ducks, cranes and incontinent geese.
Aaaahhhh, the joys of being barefoot on the farm as a kid and stepping in squishy, green, incontinent goose poop….all between my toes….hideous feeling….
I can attest to the pet food shortage. The cat shelves at all my local grocery stores have been missing a lot for at least 3 months now, maybe 4… I rotate between grocery stores and other sources and try to stock up ahead – but it goes stale like human food….
Also I gave up on the disposable litter trays once they became practically unavailable (too bad because new design is nice). However, it turns out the regular litter boxes are costing me more, because I don’t have the hand or back strength to manage large bags or boxes and must buy the lightweight plastic bottles.
Always somethin, and I know other peoples’ problems are far worse – but just thought I’d confirm what Sundance mentioned…
Have the same problem here also. We have started mixing our proteins with cat food ourselves. Things are going to be tough for awhile if we don’t fix this soon.
Decertification. They have the future elections already stolen. Look to Biden’s Thanksgiving spent at the mansion of billionaire David Rubenstein, who owns Carlyle Group, who Owns Dominion Voting Systems. They got future elections already won. 2020 needs to be decertified or else, MAGA never wins again
In North Korea, I read cats are considered a delicacy, and it started because of repeated famines,…dogs I suppose, too?
Soylent green, next?
Yes, the Democrats favorite campaign contributors Liberal China love eating our best friends. And the Democrats claim to love dogs and yet never put pressure on their Chinese friends to stop this evil practice.
Dutchman,
Been that way for a long time in NK. The average NK citizen is SIX INCHES shorter than his South Korean counterpart due to the lack of nutrition in the growing years.
When I did my tour in Vietnam it was common to see dogs cooking over a fire when we went through a village.
Oh and now people are suggesting price controls. Yeah…that’s the ticket!
Where did this statement about the melon and lemon come from?
My God….there is no end to their meglomania!
I think this is our equivalent to WWII – either our generation now steps up and defeats this monstrosity or generations will suffer because we failed.
Branch Covidianism: The new Lysenkoism
Lol….Viva Mexico. Amerika is toast.
Forehead needs a red laser dot.
melon head
And a lead/copper alloy chip.
There certainly are some where rapid lead, or lead alloy rapid infusions seems to be the only practical treatment.
Desperate times and all that.
Target rich environment doesn’t begin to cover it,…WHERE would you start, and if you did, WHERE would it end?
See my reply to Betsy down thread. It would take a combo.
Followed by a 2750 fps, 147 grain wakeup call.
If that guy doesn’t look like a creepy weirdo I don’t know who does.
Local restaurants have been doing this for steaks for a couple of months now. One family owned diner we frequent stopped offering steaks altogether because the owner refuses to pay what the distributor wants for them.
Small business owners like him need to start looking to locally available producers. Chances are he can find a cattle farmer within his area.
Time for producers to form coops (if they haven’t already) and cut out the big processors. And for us to let them know we’re ready to support them.
More sand in the machine of the big box companies.
Easier said than done. The farmers that already do market to the public are swamped. The ones that have gotten into it are facing a resource wall, namely packing capacity. There just isn’t many small packers left, most got decimated over the past 30 years between market integration on one hand and grocery store consolidation on the other. Just isn’t many locally own grocery stores and independent livestock producers to keep a decent sized plant open, what few are left you’d be lucky to get a kill date before 2023. And it isn’t as simple as just opening a new plant tomorrow. Even a small private plant would take a year to build, get approved, get approval specs from the Dept. of Health, State Ag, USDA if you ship over the line, got to figure out how to pay the inspector since every carcass is supposed to be inspected. It is doable, but not immediate and frankly it is chasing a small and fickle market.
Those treasonous and criminal Free trade treaties and communist over regulations designed to destroy and ship out our jobs, and manufacturing
Commies worry not about starving people into submission, while the elite get fatter.
“plant-based proteins“…. .I love when some brain-dead commie starts trying to convionce me to eat only plant-based proteins. I inform them that I’ve been doing that for years…the cows eat the plants and turn it into delicious protein-filled meat!
Aha a card carrying member of People Eating Tasty Animals (PETA). My kind of club.🤗😁
I’ll go you one better; they talk about eating BUGS; I DO.
I feed the fish BUGS, the fish poop, which “feeds” the “bugs” ( bacteria) which converts the poop to fertiliser, that feeds the plants AND cleans the water, for the fish.
I eat the strawberries, tomatoes, etc and the Talapai and rainbow trout (and trying fresh water shrimp) so,…I eat bugs!
Follow the money and who benefited? I’m fairly pro-oil and gas but if their money went toward Brandon to raise oil and gas prices, the response should be “hell has no fury like a women (Lady Liberty) scorn.”
“ NOTE: ¹More chicken wings are purchased in the days leading up to the Superbowl than any other time of year.”
Well, stupid should hurt. In this case it does. Doesn’t affect me at all. I stopped watching grown men in tight pants run up and down a field with other grown men with the former grown men’s names on their backs years ago.
And boneless wings are breasts, not wings.
“boneless wings” have been around forever, I remember them as chicken (MC)nuggets.
That’s what happened when wings became more popular than their supply and price of wings exceeded that of chicken breasts.
It will stay that way too unless someone comes up with a GMO chicken that has more than 2 wings.
With “boneless wings” aka mcnuggets, they don’t have to worry about some kid or idiot, choking on a bone, and sueing.
Is John Elway still playing?
SOYLENT GREEN!
Of all the colors they could have chose they chose Green.
I work in ceramics mfg, and while the powders we buy from our Mother company in Japan haven’t changed, the freight has done a double double since June, going from $7k to $14k to $28/shipment. Powders we buy from outside vendors have gone up 60% in the last 6 months. Some from Europe have more than doubled. Our biggest customers are Semiconductor equipment, like AMAT and LAM, and Oil and Gas industry on the drilling side.
Grow whatever food you can and support your local farmers.
Here is something that might help a lot – I think it’s worth checking out. Bypass Big Ag
https://www.moinkbox.com/farms
And the biggest topic of all seems buried – voter fraud / 2020.
What is the end result for Arizona, Michigan, Georgia? Are they all buried in the courts?
I can’t grow all or even most of my food but I’m buying the various products that go into my raised bed soil (peat moss, vermiculite, cow manure, worm droppings, dirt, etc.) now while it’s in the stores. I’m not waiting to see if it’s on sale in March or April. I also have my seeds already. I’m going to grow what I can so I can buy organics as much as I can. Screw Round Up.
What’s going to happen to chick fil a?? 😳
Revealing
I wish all of you well. But I am in the production side of the agricultural business. Like everything the most responsible for the well being of any enterprise are the ones who either work within it or use it. The hunters and fishermen pay most of the bills when conservation is in question with outdoor activity. And the growers do more to make the environment clean buy reduced tillage and using variable rate technologies for fertilizer use. The mantra of most would starve if it didn’t come wrapped in cellophane is quickly coming to a harsh reality.
Those who have told you to follow the science are the same ones telling you all the problems with big Ag. Think about that for a second. Are there problems yes are there better ways to raise a crop yes. And those of us who do work in Ag are always trying to do better. You can’t make more arable soil. But you can always look to the suburbs for more manicured lawns…….
Look to our fathers, and grandfathers, aka the Great Depression.
Supper DOES NOT have to be each person getting 6-16 oz of MEAT (Pork chop, steak, chicken breast, fillet) with potatoes, rice, and veggies.
Many a great, rib sticking meal can be made with that ONE meat serving, cut up in casserole, soup, etc.
In addition, back then many a back and even front lawn, became a “subsistence farm/garden” as individual families grew their own.
Vacant lots can be turned into community gardens, everybody gets a small plot, and I trade you my excess beans, for your excess corn.
WE, collectively have become far too dependant, on a collectivist system, getting all of our neccesities, by being at the end of long, fragile supply chains.
Electricity does not “come from” the electric socket, potable water does not come from a faucet, food does not come from the grocery store, hygenically wrapped, and frankly, the food after we are done with it, doesn’t magically disappear, either!
When I was a kid a pot of beans fed the whole family quite well.
Red wing croc and salt pork covered with a plate?….
It isn’t just higher food prices that will plague Americans. Food will become unavailable at any but astronomical prices.
Well, no. Not just food, energy prices as well. But, not to worry, the same govt that is currently savinh us from a plandemic, that created a phony health care crises so it could save us from it, created a student loan crises, and now wants to save us from THAT, created a drug war thatcis killing us, will SURELY declare that,, like healthcare, childcare and college education, FOOD and ENERGY are entitled human rights, and by God they are going to insure EVERY Democrat voter, legal, illegal, dead or ghost, is entitled to Gov subsidised food and energy.
May God have mercy!
I thought this was the most robust economy in the history of the solar system.🤔
Apparently only in Jimbo’s Booyah solar system, which I believe is in a parallel universe.
if you haven’t done it already folks, time to get a vacuum sealer and start stocking your freezer.
Put a priority on meats.
Also, now’s a good time to buy bulk dried beans, lentils and rice.
Dehydrated fruits as well. You can vacuum pack them and store them in a cool, dark place for
a good long while.
I also recommend using My patriot Supply for emergency food supplies. (I have no connection with them
just a satisfied customer). They have a year end sale going on right now and some really good prices.
They also now offer free replacement of you supplies if lost in a natural disaster.
When you go to your local famers markets, take the time to get to know the folks selling. Network with them regarding other farmers they probably are already bartering with for other produce, eggs, milk, beef, pork and chicken.
Time to get creative.
They advertise on CtoC. So support them you are supporting CtoC. All good. Ty for the reminder
‘freezer’??? Sure if you have back-up. They’ve told us there will be power outages/shortages coming soon enough. Some might want to learn how to smoke or can your meat for longer storage, and the need to rotate your supplies.
Appreciate your comments my friend.
BD,
I suggest you look into getting a freeze dryer. Freeze drying food is generally considered to be the longest-lasting storage method. Most freeze-dried food can be expected to last 25 years if properly mylar bagged with oxygen absorbers and stored in a cool dry place. Plus, freeze dried food tastes like it did when it was initially freeze dried, which you can’t say about most canned or dehydrated foods. For example, I love dried apricots and dehydrate some every year. However, there is no arguing that the dried apricots taste considerably different from fresh apricots. Freeze dried apricots, however, taste like they did the day they went into the freeze dryer, so if you freeze dry them as soon as you take them off the tree, they will taste just like that up to 25 years later.
Like you said, BD, it’s time to get creative. That said, for now at least, a lot of the people with the prepper mindset are very well informed and almost always willing to share that information with people who are interested. Some of that is because they are just decent people, and some of it is self-interest. Preppers know that the more people who are as prepared as they can be for hard times, the fewer people there will be out there as charity cases when those hard times hit.
Last I heard, HarvestRight (only mfr. I know for home freeze dryers) was backed up on deliveries for some months, and freeze dryers aren’t cheap under any circumstances (anywhere from $2300 to $2800). All isn’t lost if you can’t get one yourself, though. A lot of people who have them will run batches for people for nothing more than a minor reimbursement for electricity and storage bag/mason jar/oxygen absorber costs. That’s usually $4 or $5.
Let’s don’t forget bugs. I’m seeing a LOT of articles about how we’ll all have to get used to eating them. They are delicious and nutritious apparently…or so say the people who will never eat them.
I am starting to think we are headed to an American Holodomor if the communists now in charge of this government get their way. Apparently it is getting harder for farmers to find financing. And when they go bankrupt?
In comes Gates and other vultures like him, buy up their land and equipment and do what with it? Let it go to seed, go fallow?
It seems “our side” in Congress has wearied of doing what they were elected to and took oaths to protect. Much better to live the good life, take that sweet sweet lobby money, trade stocks bought using insider information, and watch while America burns.
And, yes, I do know there is no “our side”. I’m not seeing any answers from anyone. We are in uncharted waters now and I’ll be honest, I’m finding it terrifying.
Most people do not even know what the Holomodor holocaust in Ukraine even is. This is for a reason. Because they do not want anyone to know of their massive holocaust and complete insanity which was their liberal utopian insane aslyum known as the Soviet Union. Because they are recreating it here by Red Diaper baby descendants.
Salutations ma’am
I know you’re correct about the knowledge of Holodomor. It’s hard enough, if not impossible for most here in this country to even admit what is going on with these vaxes. Those who are awake know. Those who blindly line up for unnecessary tests and submit to having unknown substances put into their bodies will never be able to face the idea that their government has turned into a monster which cares not for one of them.
This being the case with vaxes, it is no stretch to imagine how the planning of deliberate starvation or near starvation by the same government on its own citizens would be rejected outright as lunacy.
The knowledge of world history offers tremendous benefits, especially when it is being repeated…which might not be necessary if our populace were required to learn it in schools, which I’m afraid is now frowned upon and being deliberately excised from all curriculums.
The Holodomor was unimaginable, horrific in ways that most can’t, won’t recognize. Genocide is an unbearable topic. Making food less available and more expensive, coupled with the poisonous jabs which have brought death and adverse effects to millions are adding up to something that I never thought this country would see within her borders. But we are seeing both.
This is why I’m glad to have the opportunity to post with reference to one of the most inhumane atrocities of the last century.
Thank you, Colkitto. All blessings to you for a hopefully better New Year.
The holodormer is not as unknown as you might imagine, although its not taught in schools as it obviously SHOULD be, along with the holocaust, the killing fields, etc.
And then point out the common element in all these MASSIVE, organised, methodical SLAUGHTERS; “Socialism” aka Conmunism.
40 MILLION, Stalin makes Hitler look like a small time “wannabee”.
Dutchman,
I just want to put in a plug for a book that might open some people’s eyes to how the Soviet Communists thought about things like the Holodomor. The book is Stalin: At the Court of the Red Czar and it is one of the best histories of anything I have ever read. The author is Simon Sebag Montefiori. He was lucky enough to get into the Soviet archives just after Yeltsin came to power, and had access to pretty much all of the Politburo records from that time, including internal correspondence between Stalin and his colleagues. He doesn’t damn Stalin and his cronies with his words; he uses their own, properly documented and attributed, to show what soulless monsters these people were. I have read and studied a lot of history, but almost none of it stunned and shocked me the way this book did. What a snakepit the Soviet Union’s leadership was!
Anyone who wants a very well-written insight into the Communist mind–and that includes the ones actively influencing our government today–should read that book.
Just ordered it from our enemy. Thanks
My best wishes to you and yours my friend. Thanks also.
Good evening, Betsy! I’ve heard grasshoppers taste great marinated /s. I’m afraid this mess is not going to get fixed until at least some of the “elites” start swinging. There some beautiful big old trees in the district of corruption.
“I can bring piano wire in case we run out of trees”
Plentybof light poles, save the piano wire for the pedophiles, of which there are plenty in dc.
Use it to ballerina them.
piano wire noose, is tied to rope, run over lightpole or tree branch.
Hands are tied behind back, and piano wire noose is around um,,…privates.
Rope is drawn tight so they must stand on tippy toes, to ,…retain manhood.
Hence “ballerina’ing them.
Then, just walk away.
Obviously, one can only stand on tip toes, for so long. Bets on how long are acceptable.
I like the whole idea. May be when the piano wire is tied around the privates move it just ever so slightly from the pole that it touches the power lines…
Hello my good friend! I see chestnut trees, some of the biggest and best are dying. Strong trees. Too bad.
I’ll get off topic here, but I love the chestnut trees, especially when they are blossoming. The place that I grew up in had a gazillion of them. Also, last time my wife and I were in Paris was over a decade ago in April, chestnuts in blossom :).
Oh my!!!!! I’m glad you were able to go when you did. “Paris in the spring” is now consigned to the past. I bet it was beautiful.
It sure was, dear sister. Doesn’t look like we’ll be going there anytime soon.
I don’t think you’d enjoy it anymore. Sad sad sad.
Holodomor. I’m ashamed to say I knew nothing about this until years ago when Glenn Beck devoted a show to this topic. I learned a lot from that episode.
Yes. I educated myself on it long ago. It makes for gruesome reading. I didn’t realize Beck had focused on it, and not just in passing. Good for him. I hope that millions were tuned in that day.
I believe that Stalin’s sycophants at NYT sent some guy, Durante was his name, who wrote articles insisting that there weren’t any people dying of starvation in Stalin’s Soviet Union. If I remember correctly, the Durante guy received a Pulitzer which the old grey whore of Babylon (NYT) hasn’t returned, yet.
Robeson as well who they wanted to commemorate a stamp to and not WWII hero John Basilone. The lying Soviet enabling media here, was hiding, and still do, the holocausts the communists were committing. The Fake News and rewriting of history is not just recent, they have been doing it for a very very long time
The skirts of the Old Grey “Lady”are tattered and torn and dripping with the blood of millions.
That was part of the reason Beck was kicked off of Fox Neocon propaganda. He was teaching to many people of Soviet/Communist holocausts they do not want the majority to know
I suspect Gates WILL let it go fallow, unless he is reserving it for China to colonise. He’s such an evil nutjob, makes the worst James Bond villian, pale by comparison.
So, hard to know what he truly intends to do with all the property he is gobbling up.
China has long envied and wanted American farmland because China can’t feed its people.
Is it conspiracy to think Covid and the jabs/boosters may eliminate enough of the American populace and leave those remaining so weak and small in number that China can just roll in and help Bill Gates with all his farmland–without firibg a shot?
I don’t know, but the Chinese DO take the long view of history, after all….
And if our military is jabbed, and will soon become sick or die……………………………..
Jabbed and purged, Colkitto. Do not tell me there isn’t a wicked and malevolent agenda ongoing with the truly seditious and traitorous military brass.
I have a long family tradition of military service. My nephew is in a elite unit of the army right now. He had to get vaccinated as he has 4 kids to support. His kids and wife are not vaccinated. I am watching things through him, and he keeps me posted on things as well if you get my drift.
Cheers
8 years ago I bought a vacuum sealer and was doing grains. The cheapest split peas I could find were $1.12 / lb. Finally I found some for $.14 a pound, then noticed 40,000 pounds minimum.
But that means KrSomeone is buying them for 14 cents and selling them for $1.20 in packages. There is a lot of expenses and profits between those two numbers.
This story reminds me. Lived in the city for years, bought “drinking water” in gallons for $1/gal. or packs of the smaller bottles, for more.
Now, I fill a 300 gallon tote, with potable water.
Price is, …wait for it,….$1.00
Yup, ONE dollar!
save the really good plastic gallon jugs with a twist lid and refills at publix for 35 cents per gallon which is great for coffee and pills
I will relearn fishing.
“A 275 gallon tote of Roundup”.. I guess the whole cancer thing blew over.
Market price for cheap cuts of chicken to be filed under the ‘never thought I’d see that’ folder.
Now we know why the open borders. Food supply! Think Im joking? When the hood rats are done looting Target and Walmart and no more Apple stores or sneaker joints they gonna be hungry. Oh yes long pig on a spit. When the chickens gone some other thngs will taste like it. Now do you see why the vax is being pushed? If you dont remember you were once human…you’ll eat anything.
Only once you have plumbed the depths of depravity humans are capable of, and learned it is truly bottomless, can you truly recognise evil when it manifests.
Otherwise its all “no, they WOULDN’T, NO, they COULDN’T, NO, nobody could,…!”
YES, they WOULD, yes they COULD, yes they WILL, and yes YOU will.
if only I didn’t know now, what I didn’t know then!
Dutchman,
Ecclesiastes 1:18–“For in much wisdom is much grief, and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.”
Still, you paid the price for that knowledge, heavy though it was, and you never know how God will make such things useful. All we are granted is to know that, at some point, He will do so.
Only fools convert their food to fuel for cars/trucks while letting the fuel remain in the ground untouched. Stop wasting our food.
Victory Gardens will be back in style.
This only covers vegetables, but it’s a start, for those with a small plot available, or a window box. I know it doesn’t change the overall picture, but it is effective, healthy, and fun.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/vegetables/vgen/how-to-grow-a-victory-garden.htm
Its far more than that. Firstly imagine if everyone in a large apt complex, or neighborhood did it.
Secondly, its a START, and any mistakes you make and learn from, are SMALL ones, that you won’t make when you expand. “Aim small, miss small”.
Thirdly, it is STARTING the move from stockpiling, which can only last so long, to self-sustaining.
Stockpiling is great, for an EMERGENCY, like a hurricane; it will get you thru, till normalcy returns, its like a temporary bridge.
But, if what we are looking at is NOT an emergency, with a start, period of recovery and return to normal, but instead a spiral that only gets worse, stickpiling is only a first step; you use it, till your first crop comes in, and hopefullu have it to get you thru, if you lose a crop (cause you missed, BIG).
SO, like 1000 Congresspersons and staffers, at the bottom of the ocean, this is A GOID START.
Yeah and sure the surge of cockroaches will be a part of it.
Predictive programming.
disgusting…
I was in Mexico a few months ago and did a couples cooking & tequila class with total of 20 people.
The woman teaching was showing how to pair various foods with cocktails. One was deep fried crickets…
No effin way for me, but all other 19 (including my wife) thought they tasted great.
I drank her tequila as a sign of protest 🙂
It’s too bad you didn’t try them. They fry them and sprinkle with Mexican spices. Like eating popcorn. We also tried ants at a tequila distillery while sampling tequila. Deep fried, spiced and surprisingly quite good.
Not happening. I choose to be cremated, instead of with the bugs.
Have you EVER been TRULY starving?
People who HAVE have eaten GRASS, when that was ALL that was available.
Yes sir. Exactly as I stated above. More and more “encouragement” to dig right in. Yummy.
Oh for PETE’S SAKE!!!
Racist? That’s a stretch!
Urea is also used in newer diesel trucks as an ingredient in diesel exhaust fluid (DEF).
Yeah, lets look at those fertilizer inputs and see if you think food prices are headed anywhere but UP:
10-34-0 is now 71% more expensive, MAP is 74% higher, DAP is 82% more
expensive, potash is 121% higher, urea is 151% more expensive, UAN32 is
171% higher, UAN28 178% is more expensive and anhydrous is 208% higher
compared to last year.
https://agfax.com/2021/12/29/dtn-fertilizer-trends-prices-continue-on-high-side/
All of the ammonia based fertilizers are made from Natural Gas, as is urea. Potash is a strategic resource. This isn’t getting better until policy changes occur, which requires new officials and new administration. Vote like you might starve, because you will if you don’t.
I was finally getting on my feet starting a lawn fertilization and pest control company in central Fl and my fertilizer prices are getting me worried.
Me and the old man are putting stop losses on everything. That’s not always a good thing and can blow up in your face. We think best to get out completely for a bit. Just want a soft landing off this train. Not sure that’s even possible at this juncture.
biden decided that since everybody said f k you to covid he ll just starve us to death
petey,
We didn’t say f k you to COVID, we said F K YOU, to BIDEN.
And, it really seemed to piss him OFF!
“Two images shared today point out how the farmland inflation originates, and how the farmland inflation surfaces in your life.”
Not to worry, comrade — we will make it up on volume!
“The professional leftists have been using the Overton window to nudge people into accepting an entirely new diet.”
Plant-based proteins and meat grown in laboratories will be the luxury items of the elite. YOU, however, will eat weeds and insects — but mostly insects — and YOU WILL LIKE IT!
Communist Russia tried large farm communes. They allowed 4-acres to be farmed privately and the individual keep the proceeds. When they found out the private 4-acres out produced the communes 400-acres. They basically scraped the commune idea. The Russian people were virtually starving to death and grocery store shelves were empty.
No, WE will all lived, clustered in cities, in multifamily dwellings with no windows, ride bycycles to work, etc.
And eat bugs and plant based protiens, soy burgers,..and like it.
The elites will live on private estates, that gates is now buying the land to develop, and “their people” will raise cattle, etc. so that THEY can dine “high on the hog”.
And they WILL like it!
Once they figure out HOW to disarm us!
This is all by design. No accidents here, the fed is a culprit with this debacle also, and of course the wasteful spending by the Uniparty are all adding to this catastrophic formula that is intended to brake our economy.
This destructive administration must be stopped, as we can not endure 10 more months of this. Remember the Uniparty will go out with a bang, leaving destruction everywhere.
The Fed’s remits do not include keeping the stock market boosted and free from corrections in order to keep corporate America’s ability for unlimited stock buybacks undisturbed at the expense of sound money. Yet this is exactly what they have done for over a decade. The rest of us have paid the price, and will continue to do so.
Reading this thread is just mind boggling to me. Those of you eating what you think are pretty organic no roundup foods have better be ready for a reality check. You probably have been vaccinated, eat artificial sweeteners and eat what you think are free range eggs with chickens running around the farm. Dream on. How many of you are going to pay labor $20/hr to pull the weeds that remove nutrients from the soil that grow your heirloom tomato that produces 5 tomatoes per plant before fungi and insect destroy the plant. In addition only one of those 5 tomatoes would be pretty the other 4 you would not buy because they have blemishes or cracks on them. You people in Manhattan need to get your fish tank poop to fertilize your heirloom. By the way what are you going to eat after your fish or chicken poop tomato dies? Did I mention you better buy a gun unless you want to see Ground Hogs, rabbits, squirrels and rats eat an average of 40% of what you produce. I guess you can control your bugs eating your squash, basil, beans, and cucumbers by eating all those nutritious aphids, white-flies, looper worms, beetles, and leaf miners yourself. Of course you will have to catch and touch them or pay someone $20 an hour to harvest them for you. So as I farm for maximum production while protecting my topsoil to keep prices as low as possible for resale I do not want you eat my produce since I use Copper like the French grape growers to control fungi and permethin (Man Made marigold) insecticide, and when disease is bad I use Bravo with weatherstik. I shoot ground hogs or spark them with electric fences. They make great additions to my compost pile.
Hang on to your shorts and your dollars. This is going to get a lot worse before we see any improvement.