Hindsight is not only 20/20, in this case it’s a little alarming.
Last year, we were discussing the massive increases in food and farming costs associated with increased fertilizer prices. By the time we got to late January, the World Bank (WB), United Nations (UN) and the Davos / World Economic Forum (WEF) group were discussing it. At first the perspective was the potential for lower crop yields creating increased global famine.
However, if we apply a little hindsight from the geopolitical world surrounding the current issues in Europe, specifically Ukraine, and then consider the background of what the Biden team were doing, while Russia, Belarus and China were stockpiling, things look a little more concerning than just lower crop yields as an outcome of higher natural gas prices – vis-a-vis nitrogen fertilizer.
As noted by Forbes last month, “Russia and China have imposed export restrictions on fertilizer. Both are, or were, big exporters of plant food. The decline in exports makes getting the vital nutrients harder across the globe. China and Russia account for 29% of world exports for nitrogen-based plant food. The two countries also have significant, albeit, smaller shares of the phosphate and potash markets, respectively, the report states.”
Now, keep in mind how Belarus helped Russia with the current military operation.
In August of 2021 the United States, Canada and the EU hit Belarus with punitive sanctions on the one-year anniversary of what they called a fraudulent election. As noted by Politico at the time, “The sanctions partially ban imports of potash fertilizer, petrol and petrol-based products from Belarus.” […] Targeting Belarus’ potash sector was a strategic move insofar as the country is the second largest exporter of the fertilizer behind Canada, covering 21 percent of the world’s potash exports in 2019.
In September of 2021, at the same time as China was investing heavily in the purchase of U.S. farmland, Beijing simultaneously announced a ban of export for phosphates until June of 2022. With China banning export of the source material, the global fertilizer market now needed to look elsewhere for future purchases.
We now know that Russia and China were talking geopolitical strategy with each other long before the Russian army crossed the border into Ukraine. However, in the weeks before they launched their military operation, in late January, Russia also triggered a full ban on the export of ammonium nitrate.
Against the backdrop of Ukraine’s importance as a “breadbasket” for the EU, similar in strategic importance as California is for the U.S., these background moves by Russia and China now appear coordinated.
China moved first to block the key ingredient for fertilizer, then Russia moved to do the same about four weeks before they launched militarily.
Both the Chinese and Russian moves could be viewed as proactive food security positions against any reactive sanction activity that would target food production. Individually each of these moves may seem small, but take them collectively, and there’s an alarming big picture.
If you remove the raw material fertilizer products from China, Belarus, Russia and now Ukraine from the global marketplace, that’s over two-thirds of the total global supply gone. As bumbling Joe would say, “That’s a big effen’ deal,” big enough to create havoc when it comes to the 2022 farm growing season in just about every country.
Assuming strategic government intervention, the U.S. and Canada can withstand it (albeit with massive price increases for farmers) but many other countries around the world will be in big trouble with a much lower harvest yield. One nation that would be particularly vulnerable is Brazil – the world’s second largest exporter of soybeans (U.S. #1, Brazil #2).
Did China, Russia and their strategic partners plan this out?
Apply hindsight and the answer seems obvious, yes.
Overlay what we have previously discussed about the geopolitical dynamic of the BRICS group (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa).
BRICS is a key strategic geopolitical trade partnership that was created during Obama, was weakened during Trump, and now with Obama back at the helm of globalist advancement – likely way more important. The core of BRICS’ purpose is a countermeasure against the coordination of globalist multinational corporations. BRICS is somewhat an anti-WEF assembly.
Do you remember everyone getting mad at India for not supporting the U.N Security Council resolution against the Russian invasion of Ukraine? Well, again, apply hindsight. Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) have a strategic geopolitical relationship framed around trade.
Given the scale of their population, food security is a BIG issue for India. If we are about to enter a food war, specifically where food now becomes a national security issue, there’s no way India would want to be on the short end of that conflict.
Things are sketchy as heck right now, because this food war picture is pretty clear.
However, if the BRICS group join in a digital trade currency together, which would effectively negate any sanctions the rest of the world might attempt, we can katy-bar the door, because actual rockets and missiles come next. The U.S./EU/UN message will shift from Putin killing Ukrainians, to Putin/Xi starving the world.
Xi Jinping (China), Vladimir Putin (Russia), Jair Bolsonaro (Brazil), Narendra Modi (India) and Cyril Ramaphosa (South Africa)
Sundance and Tucker talk to the same source.
When I watched Tucker’s piece with a farming speaking on the the coming food prices and how fertilizer determines those price spikes, I figured Tucker “got” this segment from Sundance’s post today, but Tucker’s show had to book his guest and he had to have the show ready, I think (maybe not) before Sundance’s post.
Sundance has been talking about this since at least October.
Here’s a CTH article from December
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/blog/2021/12/30/an-example-of-field-to-fork-inflation/
That is why a lot have already stocked up on what we could find & or purchase. Sundance has been spot on – probably 99% of whatever he has talked about.
My family has started stocking to, regardless what state they live in. Prices are going rapidly up, and availability is going sharply down. Anyone who does not have a prepper pantry going, needs to look at ideas, and get started. Lots of things are becoming unavailable. Scary
It is NEVER too early. I began in late 2020. I may not be at the level I would like (min 6mos-1yr), but I’m glad I’ve been slowly accumulating everything from food, medication and paper products to cat food. It’s been extremely helpful in the past 6-8mos.
Btw to all the cat owners among us. I have word from my local pet store that Purina corporate has notified it’s dealers that for the rest of 2022 to ONLY EXPECT NO MORE THAN 95% of their order. Yes! SHORTAGES of cat food, especially canned. STOCK UP! Please notify any rescues you have locally who depend upon donations.
I am not even finding 95% of Purina on the shelf (near Charlotte, NC). there are other brands but anyone with cats know, they want what they like and in my situation of 4 kitties they like Purina Fancy Feast with the turquoise label. Since January, it’s almost impossible to find in any store. I hope if they get hungry enough they will eat whatever I find for them. Can’t stock up, if I can’t even find it.
Lots of people have been talking about this for a long time, especially in the survival communities.
Mike Adams (Health Ranger Report) hammered this topic today.
Sadly, these days, Mike and his staff just scour the web for these news stories and then just paste them onto Natural News.
That’s why you will notice their stories, or most of them are about 3 days behind this website and Gateway Pundit.
They have even resorted to quoting their own commenters and comments from other sites in their stories to pad it out.
Standards have really dropped there, Mike seems to have opted for all in for the clickbait approach.
I am on permanent “awaiting comment approval” over there after I asked Mike an awkward question which was removed and also asked him to explain his “sources” which were telling him about how all the black hats in the 2020 election steal were providing him with info on how they are “all singing like canaries, in Gitmo, cooperating etc”.
The classic one was CIA director shot and wounded in Germany trying to recover the servers that helped steal the election.
When the criminal Biden was sworn in illegally on Jan 20 Mike said he had been misled and that was the extent of his explanation and apology to his readers, but in the prior 2 months he got an awful lot of clicks on his “situation update” webpages that gave his readers false hope that justice was coming.
Sorry to say that I don’t trust Mike anymore, he is now just a marketing man.
I’ve started to think the same. Some of his concerns also seem a bit far-fetched although I don’t have a scientific background so am unable to verify my instincts.
Yes, I know.
Sundance has been talking about food since at least the lockdown of March 2020
Sundance has a good understanding of the overall Agriculture part of things. Especially the Agriculture political/market dynamics.
Sundance also has written several excellent articles that talk about the CORRUPTION in the large multinational ag companies and how they control commodities….
When the government started subsidizing farmers, the farmers lost any semblance of control. American agriculture became a political tool and weapon used by politicians.
From the farmers standpoint, subsidies became the the floor and ceiling regardless of production as it relates to market price. Think of it how welfare works. You get paid regardless if you work or not. Farmers get paid whether they plant a crop or not. It is called, “farming the government”.
My dad called it “welfare farmers” and refused to take any government money for our farm. I do not blame the farmers as they have to make their payments to the bank. Therefore, farmers get funneled into corn/soybeans, ect. because there is a market for that.
When more Americans wake up to how unhealthy most highly processed food is, they will be willing to pay more for food to support local farmers that want to provide healthy food. That will propel the cycle of more and more farmers/gardeners/hydroponics providing local healthier food.
Having said that, there is a balance needed to gradually switch over to local healthy food production — modern farming provides cheap food that keeps people from starving. Also it lasts a long time without refrigeration to travel to counties that have corrupt governments or other countries that can not produce enough food. (Kinda, like you can not just shut off oil and gas and go green).
And how they still find a way to bribe our elected (installed) politician to subsidize ethanol from corn. All about the $$$$ and not human beings!!!
Funny how all of Bidan administrations mistakes and incompetence are generating huge geopolitical wins for China and Russia.
Its almost like they have some kind of leverage against him?
Like, maybe his son and family are compromised by business and sleaze? Of course, there is no way someone compromised that could ever be allowed to be president?
Unless the entire elite was also corrupted?
The Bidan crazy is about to jump the continental USA and go global with WW3
Think maybe Sundance IS Tucker’s source?
Stranger things have happened
I’m glad we are past that “Tucker is controlled opposition” crap that was floating around here like forever 🤣
Tucker is a pressure relief valve, much like this site.
Tucker and his producers “get” it. So does Sumdance. So do a LOT of people.
Add in the little episode recently where that dummy Trudeau gave away the entire “debanking” end game and was told to immediately “drop it.” Food is about to become extremely expensive and scarce. Few restaurants will be able to survive. Few grocery retailers except for the mega chains will be able to survive. THEN — oh my — then, if you step out of line they will debank you and you will not be able to buy even the scarcest food.
Play it out. It’s not that hard to figure out where they are taking us. Monsters. There are monsters among us.
I think Tucker is exposing his audience to ideas and concepts they have not considered. Tucker’s audience likely doesn’t search out alternative news sources like Sundance, AJ, JR, Revolver, Epoch Times, American Thought Leaders, American Greatness, War Room, CTH, etc.
So I think Tucker is doing a great job bringing these insightful truths to an audience who may be tone deaf; Tucker is now awake.
I stopped watching Tucker a long time ago and although he is reporting on issues that I have had to dig for on alternate news sites, I still don’t watch him because by the time he reports, I am ahead of him with my alternative news sites I read daily. But I think Tucker serves the function to spread the truth to a larger unawake audience to awaken them, which is great for our team.
Every single one of those outlets ignores the elephant in the room.
It’s the J E W S. Always has been.
109 countries can’t be wrong.
Others have said it… “we will take all the help we can get”
Not to be an as$, but this is about which news agency (MSM) can piss off the fewest views and still get rich. If Tucker’s show (i don’t watch) was not on Fox, they would be floating about a turd higher than MSNBC in the cesspool of fake journalism.
People do funny things when they are hungry and desperate. It wouldn’t be anything to liquidate the manager of a local bank and his entire family if things get that sporty.
People are policy, and without people to implement policy, government is powerless.
Incorrect. This is a three thousand year old ethnic conflict and neither Tucker nor jewdance have addressed it.
Tucker Carlson just touched on this tonight about the cost of fertilizer.
Of late he seems to be right in line with Sundance articles. Makes one wonder if Tucker reads here.
Yes, I just watched it. It’s all quite alarming.
I heard Charles Paine talk about market reactions to Russia/Ukraine and one of the items he hilighted going up was the price of fertilizer. That may have been what prompted Tucker’s staff to do the segment
Poor countries need that fertilizer to feed themselves. But, now, they are not getting it. The next African Harvest will be down 100 Million Tons. The following Harvest will be worse. Same in Asia, and parts of S. American and E. Europe.
We are entering the Largest Starvation Event in Human History. And, there is nothing we can do to stop it.
I get a kick out of some of the posters suggested fertilizer remedies. When I tell my buddies down at the coffee-shop (All farmers) about some of the poster suggestions they all get a big belly-laugh out of it. I mean seriously, these people make their living farming, don’t you think they would be on top of the latest greatest?
I can’t wait to tell them to save their hair when they get a haircut down at the barber-shop. These farmers all farm thousands of acres or milk thousands of cows, can you imagine when I tell them to take their cut-hair home with them and fertilize their farm. Lol.
Most successful farmers are trained at universities. My cousin was experienced before his University training. Afterwards he was far more intelligent about everything, nutrients, moisture content, what seeds to use, what not to use, crop rotations, etc.
Yes, I majored in Agri-business. I do not know a farmer today who does not have a college degree. It has been this way for 40-50 years.
Interpreter comes on for the Senators shortly after vid starts
This is like pitting a Chihuahua against a pack of Russian Wolfhounds
Positively despicable.
Journalist Eva Bartlett, The Real Truth About Donbass and Crimea, The NWO Fake War
https://brandnewtube.com/watch/journalist-eva-bartlett-the-real-truth-about-donbass-and-crimea-the-nwo-fake-war_zbUOYny5B8Gcx8W.html
Biden and Trudeau are interested in global warming, diversity and gender. Forget earthly concerns like food and energy.
I’m sure these globalist Earth-worshipers would welcome a little ‘unexpected” world depopulation to help them achieve their wicked agenda however it happens, whether via experimental “vaccine’, war, or famine.
Potash CANADA all you want
Saw this the other day from a Dutch blogger confirming the same thing. Notice the yield per hectare:
https://www.rintrah.nl/the-collapse-of-the-they-them-empire-western-elites-have-overplayed-their-hand/
“Here is the physical reality we’re dealing with: Europe is dependent on Russia, not just for electricity or heating, but for the very food that we consume. Russia and the European Union both produce enough food to feed their own population. There is however a major difference between the two: According to the most recent figures, Russia applies 20.8 kilogram of fertilizer per hectare of arable land, whereas the European Union applies 154.8 kilogram of fertilizer per hectare of arable land.
This leads to important differences in yield. Europe harvests 5,240 kilogram of wheat per hectare of harvested land. We use very little space, to grow enormous amounts of food. On the other hand, Russia harvests 2,616 kilogram of wheat per hectare of harvested land. Places like the Netherlands and Belgium are at the top of the chart, with 8,318 and 8,154 kilogram respectively. The secret to our success is very simple: We’re highly dependent on technological tricks, to produce the maximum amount of food, with the maximum amount of inputs.
And looked at in this way, the European idea of food self-sufficiency is a myth. We don’t produce our own food. We’re about as self-sufficient as a college student who lives by herself but has her father pay for her rent. Because ask yourself: Where does all this fertilizer come from? We produce it ourselves, by fixating nitrogen from the air. But what do we use to fixate the nitrogen? We use natural gas. Nitrogen fertilizer costs have gone up by 263% last year.
But that’s not all. The Netherlands is a massive exporter of food, thanks to our greenhouses. How do you think we produce our food? With natural gas. We don’t just use the natural gas to warm our greenhouses, we use the carbon dioxide released from burning it to massively enhance carbon dioxide concentrations in the greenhouses, because this makes the plants grow faster. This is not to mention the artificial lights that are used for the plants, allowing us to produce fruit and vegetables during dark winters.
If Russia won’t deliver us natural gas, we will literally die of hunger. The greenhouses stop working, we become unable to produce fertilizer so grain yields plunge too. And what are Russia and China now doing? They’re declaring that they’re not exporting fertilizer.”
Isn’t that slick. CO2 generators for greenhouses.
My wheat fields need 17,000 pounds of CO2 per acre. CO2 goes up my yields go up. CO2 goes up the need for more rain actually goes down.
I just read the article. Sobering stuff.
What do modern day gamers do?
They have a constant awareness of their assets, liabilities, risks, powers, weapons and ENERGIES.
I guaranteed we could have put a bunch of pimply faced teens in this situation and they would have done a better job.
We used to have large potash mines in North America for different reasons a lot of them have been shutdown. Why?
My guess, a combination of some or all of the following;
Might be others I did not immediately think of.
Potash mines create fugitive waste formerly known as “dust”.
Country roads raise dust. EPA wants to punish activities that ‘raise dust”.
A bureaucracy with little to actually do when actual problems are solved or mitigated already, will invent new problems for it to solve.
Got to rationalize increases in the budget and staff.
Think how much can get done without government interferences? If only someone would do away with all these regulations….
We had 5.5 million tons in New Mexico at the turn of the century.
Eat more chicken. It takes less grain to feed a chicken to produce 1 pound of meat.
Xi has to buy and import grain to feed chickens and pigs. which includes shipping. Most American meat is fed grain raised a few miles from the livestock.
This high energy price and grain price hurts China twice as much. (plus the stupid sting of when they devalued their currency)
Some little known realities about China that seem very relevant to this article.
https://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/China-hoards-over-half-the-world-s-grain-pushing-up-global-prices
Again, gamers could be doing a better job at figuring out the next move.
The 5 leaders look like they miss Trump. Bolsonaro seems like he is looking for him! “Where’s Donald? He belongs with us!” No wonder the PTB had to see to it that he lost the election.
The Setup And How Antony Blinken’s Family Connections To George Soros Sent Russia To War In Ukraine
https://theamericanreport.org/2022/02/27/the-setup-and-how-antony-blinkens-family-connections-to-george-soros-sent-russia-to-war-in-ukraine/
Blinken’s father ☑️
Soros☑️
Open Society☑️
The Perestroika Deception☑️
The Set Up☑️
Obama☑️
KGB☑️
Now add it up☑️ BRICS
I Should Know: Dems’ Intel Abuse Is Reminiscent of My Work for Ceausescu – The American Report
https://theamericanreport.org/2021/06/03/i-should-know-dems-intel-abuse-is-reminiscent-of-my-work-for-ceausescu/
🇺🇸CLUES UNLOCK OBAMA I.D. MYSTERY: FBI Soviet Spy Files, SUBUD Cult, And A Dead Body | By Mary Fanning and Alan Jones
http://theamericanreport.org/2015/08/19/clues-unlock-obama-id/
To this day, there are no “Pentagon Paper” thefts of Barack Obama’s college records. Amazing.
There is a video on McQaeda calling Super Government Blinken a “incompetent”
This is just a sliver of the deep game these criminals play. It goes deep when you start looking at the Warburgs (great assumed name for criminals and not original family name). Their terror stretches from the Warburg German bank during Wiemar Republic experiment and to help cripple Germany in Versailles Peace Treaty after WWI to their engineering of The U.S. Federal Reserve Bank, where one of the Warburg’s sat on the Federal Reserve Board, and involvement in the financing of the Russian Revolution of 1917. Family ties mean a lot when it comes to Communists and their colors are well hidden.
Thanks for the link! Lines up with much of my research.
It has been said the US was able to feed the world x 4 (times 4) with its agriculture. Hummm…. That may be put to the test.
But our elected officials would be content on giving away our food to people that would soon see us dead.
The bankers’ desire to control the world exceeds their desire to have you eat. You are a myocarditis-ridden afterthought. A damaged pawn.
When you hear those who have lived thru inflationary times, you realize everything eventually goes up.
The answer here is don’t sit on cash.
Water, food, shelter,energy and soon clothing.
The “necessities” of (modern) life.
When these things rise in price you know there’s a whole lot of hurt coming.
Now ask yourself, why don’t our politicians seem to be feeling the pain of these increased costs?
Maybe we should do something about that!!
One more CLEAR example of what has happened to our once GREAT EXPORTER TO THE WORLD, USA…..Our Corprorations have literally nearly destroyed us…
Yesterday, Gov. Kristi Noem hammered food security on WarRoom – citing China’s purchase of American crop land.
She didn’t mention Bill Gates’ purchase of American crop land.
Citizens should begin demanding that no ownership of such land by foreign countries can exist.
TAKE IT BACK!
An excellent strategy to deter China from any move on Taiwan is the threat of total confiscation of land held by any mainland china entity or fake subsidiary in US. Slow Joe will never use it because it makes so much sense.
How about we take up a collection for a honeymoon suite for Lindsay Graham and Sean Hannity.
Hannity is OFF his rocker these days.
Hannity takes 10 minutes to ask a question, gives his guest 30 seconds to reply and even interrupts to interject something totally unnecessary when they’re on a roll. Can’t stand the guy.
This is no joke and Russia is going to be using some other payment system now that they are sanctioned.
Take your fiat currency and stock up on everything you can think of while it’s still affordable, available and the US dollar is actually worth something to sellers.
A friend showed me a video on Putin & Bitcoin. was very interesting
Things to buy while you still can:
Heirloom seeds
Gardening tools
mechanics tools
car supplies – filters, plugs, wiper blades, fluids, brake pads, tires, etc.
long-term food storage
canning supplies
shelf stable staples – pasta, rice, beans, powdered milk, salt, sugar, etc.
Canned veggies
popcorn, maple syrup, honey – they really don’t expire
hard candy for treats
bread machine
berkey or equivalent water filter
good set of kitchen knives with sharpening block
bleach, vinegar, powdered detergent, baking soda
if you have money/room toilet paper, feminine hygeine products, bar soap, trash bags etc. for the next two years
lighters and matches lots of lighters and matches
portable stove and emergency woodstove
If you have the money/room spare water heater, coffee maker, countertop oven, etc.
next two sizes up clothing shoes for kids
good basics for adults – boots, socks, underwear, jeans, longjohns, coats, gloves, tennis shoes
light bulbs, flashlights, rechargeable batteries, solar lights
freezer, generator, weather radio, tents (use inside house if power is off or to lower thermostat)
hard copy books on first aid, natural medicine, home and car repair, American and world history, older dictionary and encyclopedia sets, Bible if you use electronic now
Forgot medical
As many months of RXs you can get and learn if there is a natural alternative in emergency
tylenol, aspirin, ibuprofen in bulk
neosporin, peroxide, etc.
bandages, surgical thread and tools
lydocaine, cold compresses etc.
vitamins vitamins vitamins
Thank you for passing this on, Lulu. It makes my life a lot easier.
Critical Health News. The Doc & Ben are very good people. Real people
Also if you can;t afford a generator you can buy a
power bank..a brand name is Jackery but there are many
others they are about the size of a car battery but lighj
weight and portable and come with a AC plug multiple
USB and 12 volt plugs they can be charged in house power, car or you can buy small solar panels..
I am almost of the mind to build my own electronic circuits for a power bank so I can use off the shelf components that are more easily replaced like a car battery.
Biden just asked Congress for $10 billion for Ukraine for food, weapons and emergency supplies.
We may be needing those ourselves.
Basically he and Congress are going to distribute 9 billion to themselves
Right into their “foundations” and secret offshore accounts. Government keeps at least 2 sets of books, and perhaps even 3. Walter Burien found allot of this out with their Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports. Government is a criminal conspiracy to defraud its victims/citizens
Screw that rat bastard!
This scares the hell out of me. I wish we had a bigger yard, so I could keep chickens, and maybe a cow. On another note, I think we’ll get another German Shepherd, because I have a feeling what little we do have socked away is going to need a watch dog.
Rescue group
I stumbled upon this gem the other day. It just goes to show that this whole fracas has never been about Ukraine. It was about regime change. The uniparty doesn’t change. I don’t know what Poroshenko is saying. English starts around 1:10 mark.
This video description says that this happened around Dec. 2016. Now consider that this was a month after Trump won the 1st election. You have the 2 usuals, McCain and Graham along with Klobuchar and possibly someone else, stirring the pot.
They had a whole decade of this bs in Yugoslavia. War criminals all, especially the treasonous Clinton Admin
“Control petroleum you control nations. Control food and you control peoples” war criminal Henry Kissinger a modern day Frankenstein
He’s another bit players in this slow Communist takeover.
Aren’t fertilizer plants easy to build? And if we build from scratch now, they will be more automated than ever? Controlling fertilizer prices seems like a short term weapon.
Was listening to a small east TN farmer talk about how feed costs are going up. Local farmers feed the community. That lady that sells her “free range organic” eggs isn’t going to be able to afford to sell them for what it costs her to raise/produce them. That rancher who sells beef or pigs or chickens or rabbits are going to have to raise prices. Even if everything only goes up, say, $1/50lb bag of feed, my chickens go through 50 lbs a week (yes, I have a lot of egg layers). Normally, selling locally has very thin margins and generally that small profit gets plowed (no pun intended) back into the farm – fencing and posts here and there, repairs, etc., that enable you to produce. If you don’t live in a rural area, but frequent a Farmer’s Market, expect to see increased prices. I think, just my opinion, that the “organic” producers will do better because they don’t use the chemical fertilizers that the larger growers are dependent upon.
But… There’s no way to feed urban areas with small farms.
The hardest hit people are doing to be lower income families in urban areas – I don’t know how Democrats justify their actions because they are detrimental, seriously detrimental, to those people who have less choices. Joe Biden’s policies really are criminal. I don’t understand how Nancy Pelosi can clap like a neurotic seal when people she claims to feed are suffering. But, #whatever.
I’d just say, if you can stock up on extras in order to extend yourself to the less fortunate, please do so. Government seems to be unaware of the cascading effects of their policies – what good does a food card do if you can’t find healthy food to buy?
‘Democrats justify their actions because they are detrimental, seriously detrimental, to those people who have less choices.’
They won’t have to justify their actions because they will increase the subsidies as necessary to keep them fed and on their side.
During the Holodomor the kulaks were starved to help feed the cityfolk.
Petara?
Organic farming is a marketing tool farmers use to sell their product to “City Slickers” (today’s Libtards). True you have less cost input for fertilizer and pesticides, but your yield goes down proportionately.
Organic farming is more of a hobby, cottage industry. Most farmers I know who have tried organic farming on an commercial viable basis have gone broke. Organic farmers are similar to virtue signaling mask wearers.
A co-workers father runs a farm that sells produce locally and to co-workers. He told me fertilizer has tripled and seed corn quadrupled. Think how that translates to the upcoming produce season.
If worse comes to worse and the communists take away modern day fertilizers. We should do as in the old days where we used natural fertilizers of horse & cow manure to grow our crops. I bet Zoos would be happy to gift farmers elephant manure etc.
This may even help the overall quality of our soil. And we can tell the Communists to stick their fertilizer up their rears!
Farmers have never stopped using “natural” fertilizers. There is just not enough of it. I live in an are of large dairies, large poultry operations and large farms. However, there is no way enough “natural”, not even close.
Go all “Natural” in the United States and you won’t have to go to the sands of Ethiopia to see famine.
for those who own camping stoves or the one burners
that work on Propane or butane.. Will propane or butane
become hard to get?
So, do the Treepers think there will actually be food shortages in the US…in terms of people actually going hungry?
Should I buy the long term storage food?
I think it’s going to be a lot more expensive and a lot less selection with whole categories being unavailable at times.
Longterm isn’t bad to have. If you aren’t going for 25 year number 10 cans – buy and out in mylar bags lots of beans and rice. Won’t starve to death with beans and rice.
If you have pets that’s where I’d stock up because that could be hard to get when push comes to shove.
When I was a kid we had dogs and cats pets for varmint control. However, we also had farm animals as pets. They later on became our food.
A food shortage in the United States will have only one cause; Government.
No matter what the leftists do or attempt to do, the American free market will find a way to get through it.
Here’s an idea. Slaves! And I mean it. American farmers market their operations as “Organic Hobby Farms” when there are no fertilizers, pesticides, or weed control chemicals available. Then they talk about volunteers helping “bring in the harvest” with free products for the hours of work and the lefties will flock to these farms. The free workers will get meals and small stipends of fresh produce to help their families during these difficult times. Obviously there are undesirable jobs on farms that certain people would be assigned to. Do you see slaves yet?
Now these farms have to keep their opinions a bit subdued but basically the dumbest people on the planet who normally shovel shit out of their mouths will be put to work, based on their “skills”. Free fertilizer too if you have a large chipper shredder! The new Soylent Green and the lefties will line up to help.
During the Great Depression this was how it was. My grandfather had a farm 3-miles from town and you described exactly how he told me it was.
No coincidence the food shortages are starting now. It should be no secret the earth is entering the Grand Solar Minimum, which will cause significant global cooling over the next several decades. This will reduce in most, or even eliminate in some regions, growing seasons and dessimate crop yields. It’s already started and will get rapidly worse by 2030. Massive amounts of famine will lead to societal collapse of most nations, especially the so-called superior Western nations. They will succumb to the BRICS (3rd-world) nations that are actively preparing for this tumultuous period. Global domination will follow as the remnants of non-BRICS nations will be easily conquered with little resistance. This has always been Putin’s and Xi’s endgame. Their successors will divide up the world and rule it for generations without the need for a hot war. Luke this is your destiny! Whomever survives until 2040 or so will be ruled by some very dark Forces indeed. Most will either starve to death or die defending their food stores.
An industrial chemist friend of mine pointed out that we are one of the top EXPORTERS of fertilizer, plus we are also using less.
Has anyone noticed grocery shortages in their areas yet as Sundance earlier predicted might happen? I haven’t noticed any here in the southern Illinois suburbs of St. Louis.
This area is home to the headquarters, processing plants, and many of the dairy farms that supply Prairie Farms Dairy, so maybe having a major dairy based locally has helped us avoid scarcity in dairy products.
This region is also a major agricultural area in general.
Sundance mentioned in his earlier analysis that the better operated grocery stores would be able to avoid some of the worst shortages. Perhaps our two main local grocery chains, Schnucks and Dierbergs, fall into the better operated category. They seem well run to me as a non-grocery store expert.
The major national chains around here, such as Walmart and Target, don’t have any shortages either.
Grocery prices here are noticeably higher than under the Trump administration.
I’m stocked up just in case there are any grocery shortages on the way.