Again, they are blaming this on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, but the origin of the issue goes back much further.
Last year, CTH was one of a small number of people talking about the very real possibility of food shortages due to the cumulative effects from regulatory COVID mitigation and the fracturing of the food supply chain that government intervention created. {Go Deep}
What we are witnessing now is not as much attached to the Ukraine crisis, as it is the continued ripple effects in that same supply chain.
The current grain issues are an outcome of a major supply chain disruption on the manufactured and processed food side, which is now exacerbated by higher replenishment costs and lower yields. Fertilizer costs have skyrocketed due to energy cost increases.
It is a perfect storm.
Without the Ukraine crisis surfacing, the grain (wheat, corn, soybean) and supply chain issues were already going to be a problem, and many of these current mitigation efforts -wrongly being attributed to Ukraine- would have taken placed without any regional conflict. That’s why we predicted these issues last year, long before Ukraine-Russia was in the headlines.
The thing to keep in mind is that some smart governments, especially those nations where the government controls and monitors the food industry, can see these issues long before they surface. If CTH could see these multinational food issues last year, you know the governments of China and Russia could also see them coming. Some might even argue they gamed out the problem and are taking advantage of it right now. {Go Deep}
It’s interesting to see the media use the term “food protectionism” instead of a ‘food war‘, but really what we are now seeing in Europe is positioning amid territorial regions to keep food available. In North America (Canada, U.S. and Mexico), we are blessed with several crop cycles each year. Some nations only get one or two, we have at least three, but we still need the fertilizer.
(Bloomberg) — Governments around the world are taking steps to safeguard domestic food supplies after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine roiled trade and sent prices of key staples soaring.
Hungary is banning grain exports, its agriculture minister told television channel RTL on Friday. Argentina and Turkey also made moves this week to increase their control over local products. And Moldova, albeit a small shipper, temporarily halted exports of wheat, corn and sugar from this month.
Protectionist measures — which already picked up in recent years as the Covid-19 pandemic sparked worries about local supplies and high prices — could spell more bad news for global food trade. The war in Ukraine has brought crop shipments from much of the crucial Black Sea region to a halt, heightening fears of shortages of grain and sunflower oil.
[…] Argentina, a major grain shipper, is creating a mechanism to guarantee wheat supplies for local millers and tame pasta prices. Top flour exporter Turkey boosted the agriculture ministry’s authority over exports of an array of goods, allowing it to make “periodical arrangements” if needed.
Hungary’s ban takes effect immediately, and a government decree will soon be published, its agriculture minister said. The country had sold about 127,000 tons of soft-wheat abroad so far this season.
Elsewhere in Europe, Bulgaria — a much larger exporter — is working on a system to buy grain that can be used to meet its population’s needs, the government said after a meeting with producer lobby groups on Friday. (read more)
Y’all know my lengthy position on this. I have long said that farmland, food, source material, manufacturing and processing, should be considered a national security issue. I do not think the federal government needs to get involved too much, but I do think states should be permitted to control or limit foreign ownership, investment and Big Ag corporate monopoly controls.
It amazes me to see the so-called “experts” that we rely upon, completely incapable of understanding the laws of unintended consequence.
Each seemingly small issue creates another small issue, which creates another small issue, which ultimately pokes holes in the supply. Poke enough holes in enough small categories from manufactured condiments to manufactured drinks, to manufactured cereals, pasta, grains, soups, pet foods, and the complex food processing system overall begins to show the larger problem.
It’s a system collapse by a thousand paper cuts – from the fork all the way back to the field.
It’s catching on and spreading. Kind of as when they released the virus. It would appear that bankrupting AND starving the populations is now, as Sundance would say, not a flaw but a feature of governments the world over.
” Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some fifty miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. … Is there no other way the world may live ? ”
This quote from Dwight Eisenhower, 1961.
Eisenhower warned us of this secret cabal that would seek to destroy us.
That was 60 plus years ago.
He knew what we were up against.
He spent time among them.
Seems as long as we have a roof over our heads and food in our belly everything is just dandy.
Well those times seem to be coming to a close.
What will YOU do ?
I have withdrawn my consent to be governed by these morons. I have been a lifelong Republican. If you didn’t have an R by your name you didn’t get my vote. I was involved in the Tea Party and thought that it was the beginning of something that would change the American political landscape, but alas the Deep State turned their mighty weapons upon it and annihilated the T Party. I voted for Trump, twice, for the same reasons and watched, aghast as the Uniparty fought him at every turn and allowed the election to be stolen, right before my eyes. I have drawn my lines of defense, made every effort to put my family in a position that we can survive, at least for a while. My lines are not like Obama’s famous red lines in the sand, they are lines that, if crossed will result in punishment with extreme prejudice or at the least with the most resistance that I can muster. I am disgusted with my countrymen and fear that we have lost the strength of spirit that pulsed through the veins of the Founding Fathers.
What will you do?
👍👍 We have been preparing for this for decades.
We bought our first home at 23, having worked and saved since 16.
We are now well set, yet still live as if we were poor.
We “flip” used vehicles, buy at thrift stores and only buy grocery items on sale.
We have cash in three currencies in our safe, Gold too.
Many months of non perishable foods are stored.
Perishable foods are well sourced.
Each of our homes has a wood fireplace and each has at least two cords of wood on hand.
Banks, Grocery Stores and utility companies will gouge the unprepared.
Cheers to all!
I have thought about getting some other currencies. Do you have any recommendations?
The three we have are the U.S. Dollar, The U.K. Pound, the Euro, and of course our own Canadian dollar.
We put little value in any of the paper, but we live a 5 min drive from the U.S. Border.
I am a U.K. citizen by birth, hence the Pound, and Euro.
Good Luck, and stay frugal.
You don’t mention water. What would you do if the electricity goes out for a month or more. When your stored gas is used up. You fracture your leg in an accident and can’t get care? Or your town jacks up property taxes and if you pay in gold they will come confiscate the rest of what you have?
This is not a put down, it’s a lot of things people don’t consider. We are all unprepared for a primitive life, don’t kid yourself otherwise. If it ever gets to that point, depopulation will occur fast.
Completely understand your point and agree. It is not possible to be prepared for everything. However, I think the spirit of the Dekester advice would be to prepare for, as best you can, loss of grid, food, money as well as civil unrest over a finite period of time.
As they say over at ZeroHedge: On a long enough timeline the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
I spent a lot of time sleeping on the ground in a tent. It isn’t fun but I would do it again to get rid of these people who deceived me, stole my voice, and called me an enemy of the state because I value my freedom. They said we would have nothing and be happy. They want to take everything I have worked for my entire life. When they say these things you had better believe them. Watching that witch Piglosi rubbing her fists together like Simon La Greed increased my blood pressure to boiling point. Our gov is now like monarchy with house of lords.
Ya’ll will need an army to stop those who are starving and are armed.
Trustworthy like minded people.
I feel exactly the same.
Almost all my relatives are liberals who don’t realize the danger.
Good, let them expire!
No….they are my family. I figure when/if it gets bad enough they will see the light – which puts me into the position of hoping I’m wrong.
Same here. That’s why, when I stocked up on Ivermectin it was for all family. Jabbed or not. If they did not want it, fine, but I wanted them to know it was there for them.
You are fooling yourself. People refused to believe in Gulags and holocaust victims even when forced to see them. As Morpheus said, “Some people cannot be unplugged from the matrix.” I wonder if our failed gov will hand out M16s to blue haired school teachers as their dynasty crumbles like what Zelensky is doing with AKs as his corrupt empire crumbles.
Mark my word, Russia will take Ukraine.
I agree 100% Clyde. I am actually to the point now where, for the first time in my life I am regretting putting on a Marine Corp Uniform, rifle in hand and defending the flag of my country. I am so SICK AND TIRED of how Cowardice the young men of our country has become. They will NOT engage, and we older Americans are to fault for it. WE are the ones that insisted all of them NOT stand up and fight for their convictions, to just let the “legal system” handle all disputes instead of rolling up their sleeves and duking it out. LOOK ay how many times we see these attacks on the elderly/women just from NYC alone. Every time you see those, you see people standing around, not lifting ONE FINGER to help that person being attacked. TOTALLY DISGUSTING….AMMO UP America, you’re going to need it. Time to put your “Big Boy” pants on….
I distributed one of Sundance’s posts earlier this week (Is This The Beginning of the Food Wars?) to a group of friends. A few replied about how scary that was. I recommended to all that, even if you’re not ready to embrace your inner prepper, tell yourself you’re beating inflation and get your family stocked up. Even our most wayward family members who are Covid Cultists should be able to understand that war and inflation will affect food availability.
What will I do? I am adding more chickens to my flock to provide me with more meat and eggs than my wife and I need. I am growing two vegetable gardens with two crops a year (we have two planting seasons in NE Florida). I have sighted in my hunting rifle for this years hunting season so as to keep our freezer full of venison and wild turkey. I have my fishing rods and crab traps ready to provide fish and delicious blue crabs from our coastal waters. I am making my own bread and curing my own English style back bacon as well as making English bangers (sausages). Hopefully it will be enough for us to get by.
Thats great. I hope you are also helping your neighbors prepare by offering your knowlege.
We are..we even have an unoccupied new suite in one of our homes for any family or good friend that need a home for a month or two.
Family and friends…just like the old days.
Cheers!
His neighbors dont want his knowledge you fool. They want his food.
We are in Wyoming. We have been doing same. Today i traded for a 240 gallon fuel tank. Will fill it Monday if storm here breaks.
Better fill it with non ethanol fuel it shortens the shelf life and destroys the atmosphere. Thanks corn lobbies!
Right behind you here in N FL! Adding honey bees to my arsenal, I have a sweet tooth!
If you have the land, consider growing sweet sorghum. It is harvested and pressed for the sorghum syrup, much like sugar cane. But, unlike sugar cane sorghum is a hardy plant that has been raised in almost every state in the union.
Stored fuel: don’t forget to add StaBil or some other fuel stabilizer before the tank is filled.
100 million starving gun owners may not have been well thought out by the Ruling Class.
Remember what JOE said about F16’s and tanks?
Don’t worry about the weapons gotta have people to use them, …. know where all the
F15’s and nukes, n’est-ce pas?
How many tanks? Someone need to build them and someone needs to obey an order to shoot your own citizens! Aiming at the government would be much easier and was endorsed by our founding fathers!
If they commit atrocities against us how will the world know since the media will tell opposite of what is really going on. Do you think for one minute piece of sh*t like Bidet or her majesty Piglosi would think twice about using the war machine against the American people to save their corrupt dynasties? They will fill our military with foreigners to kill us. I don’t see any evidence of intelligence or restraint in this corrupt regime. This is zero sum game for all the chips. They are all in on this globalist takeover.
America is huge and I mean huge and our ability to grow many different crops is massive.
We can grow grain, fruit, vegetables, cattle, poultry and can feed our people and provide every nutrient that humans need.
The black market will thrive here unlike some small countries that can only grow a few crops and can not meet the food needs of their populations and must import much.
There would be a huge shuffle of how things are done and who does what but Human Nature will take over and it is just impossible to control us.
Things never work out like these Tin Pot Gods think it will and their great Reset Plans will hit the skids some where.
I do not know where or how but they will falter.
Things will not go well for us either but they will not end up controlling the world like they think they will.
They never do.
America has at least 20-30% arable land suitable for farming. It only needs water for irrigation. Water projects are designed and have been in place for years and years to bring this land in production. Why hasn’t it been done?
Because the Left-wing environmentalist has stopped it.
And Bill Gates has been buying up farmland by the thousands of acres!
Public domain. sorry Bill!
I agree. Screw Gates. I can only hope he will hang for his crimes against humanity.
And they are controlled by globalists. Green is the new Red.
Thank you CC! Certainly it will hit the skids.
I am just a Mom and grandmother, nobody ever accused me of being some brilliant mind.
On the other hand though, I don’t think it takes a genius level IQ to wonder if the New World Order, when ushered in, would mean the NWO orchestrators will suddenly, somehow, magically, all get along peacefully together?
Let us not forget human nature. These evil folk will never stand together as ONE! Certainly not for long.
They will be positioning to one up and backstab the other from the outset.
How did I come to this conclusion? Well, Satan thought he should be God.
Didn’t work out so well for him, as he was banished from Heaven; nor will it work out well for the NWO leaders. Not in my opinion in the end anyway.
Of course they will create devastation with their every move, but their own destruction they are/will be blind to.
Carry on Treepers & PRAY.
They are paper tigers, confront them about anything, say masks, they back right down. Know your local sheriff. I think I’m getting why Pelosi wants Capitol Police in every state.
Their plans will fail but it won’t be easy. I think we’re in for a long haul. I don’t trust the elections will be smooth, the left knows they’re in for a whooping. They pulled off a coup, what’s next?
Much trading and bartering will be going on and the elites have nothing to trade because what they value has no practical use for everyday living.
Yep! Who wants a Lamborghini when gas is $10 a gallon!
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“Things never work out like these Tin Pot Gods think it will”
I don’t think expected people to band together and support each other as much as they did during covid.
Or parents choosing to take the upper hand over educators on behalf of their children.
We moved from Seattle to Montana. My wife has family here.
Our nieces husband has a huge farming family in the state that
farm well over 20k acres. He is an extremely smart kid whom I
really enjoyed talking to at Thanksgiving time. I was so interested
in what they grow and how they do it. On a separate note my father
in law is retired from irrigation here in the state. I was completely
taken back that this rather large farming family here in our state
uses no fertilizer or irrigation on any of their farms. We talked about
the difference in yields if he did or didn’t use them. He is sure knows
his stuff. Last year they did a lot of barley. I imagine they will do more
soybeans and wheat this year.
all hope is not lost peoples.
I don’t comment much, but I really thought I should tell you all about that))
God bless you all))
Well, they can’t manage an annual budget or achieve consensus on ANYTHING, so I think you’re right about their ambitions.
Yes it’s Klaus Schab’s World Economic Forum and the left’s dream of the Great Reset – Build Back Better that’s pushing all this. Russia was pushed into invading Ukraine in the same way that the virus was purposely released. Sadly most Americans are blind to it all. Many are still walking around wearing useless masks and believing what the media tells them.
Don’t forget the offshoot of the WEFs Young Global Leaders group, called Global Shapers.
Global Shapers are in every major city of the Western World and 5 Eyes.
They seek to disable those governments locally by infiltration and align them with the goals of the NWO.
I’m good with any Biden voters starving.
Me too! Let them all die!
They’re all deceived. Hate the people manipulating them instead.
Protectionist measure = prioritizing feeding your own population = bad.
And those food shortages preceded Ukraine by months.
SCIENCE will explain it all.
To explain it all to us has been given to VP Harris to do.
Russia is a big country, Ukraine is a small country. A big country invaded a small country.
Like that, so simple that any fool could understand it, you know?
Where’s Fauci anyway? And Birx slid off to Bush Global Health Initiative. Don’t forget her
Not forgotten.
A lot of us have lists.
Don’t you mean “THE SCIENCE”
It could just as easily be called “food nationalism,” but we all know why it is not.
Bingo – “National Food Security”
I just read recently that Ukraine and Russia together control about 80% of the world production of sunflower oil, Ukraine alone almost 50%. But with its ports closed, the EU is warning that shortages of sunflower seed oil will hit by April.
Wheat has taken a jump in price of about 40%.
It’s time for the EU, NATO, the US to decide how they are going to establish peace. The warmongering of the Biden administration is devastating for the people of the US and the world.
These products could still be transported via truck to neighboring countries with ports or rail depots. Global cooling is going to be a pain for sure.
You assume peace is the goal.
If your state government won’t secede, time for a new state government.
We must remove ourselves from the globalist system as soon as it becomes possible to convince the masses. When their bellies are empty, they will be receptive to new ideas. We must force this idea on them. The cost of doing nothing is far too great.
A powerful Red State Coalition…fiscally responsible, culturally sound, real education, real law and order and with defensive military strength…may be the only path out of this mess. But, with each passing day the probability the Coalition can save us diminishes.
Nope, the passage of time has more people waking up. There will be no coalition until bellies are empty, and vaxx casualties line the youth sports fields. 10% of population cannot save the other 90%, when 45% hates the 10% for trying and will rat them out. Real hardship is the only thing that saves us, and hopefully it is survivable. Whatever it is, it will be suddenly triggered. The NWO will burn it down before they hand over the keys. Pray, prepare, and live your best, and be kind. Pray for mass discernment, and try to red pill friends who cannot see. We are going to need as much help as we can get.
The problem with a Red State coalition is that state party chapters are controlled by the RNC. And the RNC is RINO controlled, funded and managed.
State party chapters vet and control who qualifies to run and gets funded.
Problem #2: The Federal Government has Constitutional control over Interstate Commerce.
Also, the blue state coalition would never allow someone else to live in peace and prosperity. As long as their coalition existed, it would be for the purpose of destruction. It’s all they know.
Unfortunately the majority have been fooled into thinking a particular party is going to be their savor. If we just keep doing what we’ve done over and over again everything will magically change THIS time!
Because of course our favorite political corporation has heard us by now and we’re all electing those MAGA guys… Who also happen to be in that corporation.
They seem to be incapable of understanding the old saying about fooling a man is much easier than convincing him he has been fooled.
Untill that changes federalism will live on in all of its glory.
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I am fully convinced that journalists are among the dumbest people on earth.
And the most propagandized. Years ago I read that about 95% of heads of Schools of Journalism were major contributors to Democratic political campaigns. I’m sure it must be close to 100% by now.
Conservatives and Republicans need not apply. Screeened out and rejected with near extreme prejudice.
That pretty much leaves Rand Paul as the only man standing. I like him, but doesn’t give me complete confidence.
I chuckled and nodded my agreement. Good comment!
What does that make the idiots begging for a fifth booster jab then ?
Still idiots. For as long as they live.
Extra boosters may only shorten that.
Not long for this world.
I won’t complain about that
It makes them very likely to be dead sooner than later.
somewhay evil
I am convinced they are also very evil.
Soul-less demons.
Only now?
That has been my overall impression of them, with a few exceptions, since Reagan was president.
Reagan is no hero. Thanks to him we have a never ending stream of foreign criminals streaming across our borders. He destroyed the family farm in the 80s.
They are spoiled brat know-it-alls who are butt ignorant.
The reason being because the media only hire journalist to be their journalists.
They are socialists. Redundant I guess.
Dumbest and most culpable in creating our current state of affairs. If only 20% of them were actually independent, curious, and courageous, the globalists would be completely exposed and running for cover. I hate them for creating the impression that everything that’s happening is hunky dory because we have a media of vigilant watchdogs instead of corrupt lap dogs.
As I have been stating on this site for years,
” The communists favorite weapon is starvation “.
All their history proves this, even the wars they create create starvation .
Site starting everywhere in Aussie the price of urea has jumped from $250 to $1.300.00 a ton in 8 months.
Farmers now are stockpiling what they can get.
I have been informed that depending on the crop type of cause the breakeven rate is different, but with wheat/barley it’s about $1,800,00 per ton.
If this happens it becomes non-viable to sow.
The same farms of course can shift to livestock, but the situation of feed then surfaces .
The Elephant is already in the room, it just hasn’t stomped its feet yet !
Very true but even with this weapon they never win.
They always lose and they will lose again.
The people under their thumb will suffer terribly but the leaders will fail once again.
Sadly we have been warned and failed to reckon against this warning and possibly will pay a terrible price but I do not believe these crazy NWO ( 0r what ever you want to call them this time) leaders will prevail any more than the ones who cam before them prevailed.
They will once again lose but once again the people will suffer horribly under them until they throw off the chains and rise up.
Then for a bit freedom will rise feebly until we are too fat and comfortable and it all starts over again.
It has been this way through out history for as much as we can read and research and look back over human history.
We are not any different even though we think we are.
We now have an election stolen from us here in the US right before our eyes and have a senile old man and a crazy low IQ VP installed in our WH while Nancy Pelosi who is 3rd in line to the US Presidancy gets up in public several times a week and spews her drunken crackpot mouth off and no one does anything about it but write cute things on twitter and other blogs.
We all talk about the 2024 elections as if they will be any different.
Dream on America.
” The communists favorite weapon is starvation “
Ukraine in 1932-1933 comes to mind.
Regarding smaller gardens, all 50 states have active Master Gardener programs. Master Gardener programs have, for years, been teaching people how to garden naturally with natural forms of fertilizer like compost and mulch made from leaves and wood bark that decompose instead of getting put in the landfill. Also, natural ways of dealing with pests.
Over a decade ago, people began saving NON-GMO SEEDS! They may be hard to get now.
I have 28 horses on my property. I have lots of compost for myself and any neighbor who needs some
https://www.frontpagemag.com/point/2022/03/ukraine-which-votes-un-terrorists-and-against-daniel-greenfield/
Interesting! And Mark Levin is all-in on supporting Ukraine and against Russia.
He was a big time never Trumper. Haven’t listened to him since. And why did they replace Rush with Clay Travis and Buck Sexton? Buck told Trump to accept the fraudulent election and claimed it was honest. Controlled opposition.
Its one thing to stop production of oil, etc and export a good bit of what we do pump, quite another to slow production of food and export alot of what you do grow. Of note, 1920s early Stalin (famine), due to bad crop yields, no. To show the power of the system (false though it was), they exported much of the crop yields thus depriving their citizens of the yield. Could it happen here in the US…….no not a chance…I’m sure of it.
How much usable land is going to be opened up in Siberia by an increase in global temps?
The answer is none! I have been in Siberia. You need soil and lots of fertilizer just to grow poor quality food. Lots of Siberia has no soil. Same goes for Canada too.
none
unless you believe in the fraud climate change
There is not going to be an increase in global temperatures. There is going to be a decrease. Grand solar minimum, just getting started. Decreased growing seasons.
You thought the election and the plandemic were the only lies being told? Up is down, wrong is right, and the temperatures getting colder due to the electromagnetic cycles of the Sun are temperatures getting warmer.
Have you seen the price of arugula?
Try growing Dandelions as a substitute. I understand it make a superb wine too!
Its really easy to grow. Sow seeds in pots and you should be picking in 6 weeks
I think we have been seeing some of this in recent months with short supplies in the pasta aisle.
Barilla pasta is now $1.99. It was always 99 cents!
A growing contigent in the Republic of Georgia are pressing to nationalize Russia-owned assets in the country.
‘Calls Mount to Nationalize Russian-Owned Strategic Assets’
https://civil.ge/archives/477456
The world will need a hero like Herbert Hoover to come forward. Hoover led famine relief in Belgium and France in 1914 and Soviet Russia in 1921 saving millions. His biographers have credited him with saving more lives than any person who has ever lived. A Republican when it it was still honorable to be one.
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The Hoover Dam honors him — too bad the people that control the water behind and released from that dam do not give him homage . . .
(Selling water rights to foreign governments, anyone?)
Soon to be renamed the George Floyd dam, lol.
Didn’t he starve people here in Hooverville’s and attack WW1 veterans asking advanced payments for relief?
right there in front of a crackling fire with a hint of wood smoke… called out, you are a fraud.
“food protectionism” is the new “isolationist” foreign policy these mofos taught all of our kids in US public high schools – Ron Paul, bad; Globalism , good. SPIT.
North America’s great plains has long been the feed bowl of the world.
If food shortages result from all this government intervention, it will be because of, not despite all this government action.
See my comment above about 1920s Stalin.
Stalin was surrounded by Bolshevik advisers.
If you want to see a beautiful movie, check out Amber Waves, a TV movie from 1980 starring Dennis Weaver and Kurt Russell (YouTube).
America’s farmers are feeding the world, and they know it.
Talk about a sacred mission.
Thanks for the recommendation.
Government intervention has caused a number of California farms and orchards to dry up and legislation in Oregon is aimed at putting small farms and ranches out of business.
The future is meant to be one in which government and international corporations control the population through food.
It would not be surprising to someday see an attempt made at outlawing private gardens to make us wholly dependent on government.
No one allowed to feed themselves.
That was one of Zero’s first acts in his first unconstitutional term.
And he was trying to control the water too.
Very true Raptor.
We have plenty of ag ground but our farmers need fuel for their tractors as well as the fertilizer.
The cost of the fuel as well as the shortage of fertilizer will cause many problems, not the lack of ag ground.
The farmers will plant enough to feed their families and friends.
Without fertilizer it won’t grow squat.
here in the great plains , I have property in the south western black hills area and a home in the south western North Dakota and i assure you they have been chemtrailing ahead of storm fronts and it always leads to disaster in the south
but also as a result we sit in drought here because they divert the rain.
ps….They openly admit to “cloud seeding” ahead of storms here in ND.
I wouldn’t count on the plains to feed the nation.
The good news if you can call it that is that avgas is also getting expensive and when the petrodollar dies, government will have no dollars for that type of activity They’ll be lucky to keep the lights on
These countries will take care of their own, our country’s leadership will destroy their own. That’s sad!
It has been a harsh winter in Eastern and southern Europe this winter. They even got a bunch of snow in Istanbul. I don’t believe the crop yields are what they are expecting which plays more into this than export/supply chain issue. It will make these country’s imports balance greater and costs for goods received will skyrocket.
The shortages coming to the US are manmade disasters created on purpose by Old Joe and his gang of nefarious misfits.
It’s hard to argue otherwise.
COVID was also manmade
Beside Covid, wonder how many other diseases were also man made.🤔🤔🤔🤔
Just sitting here pondering how my whiteness is to blame.
Please don’t fart, your contribution to global warming is not welcome either !
Let me very blunt about this. Roughly one billion, three hundred million people will go to bed hungry tonight, the vast majority in Africa. Hundreds of millions will attempt to enter Europe, and unless they are forcibly denied entry, they will overwhelm western Europe, and collapse the whole of it.
Not all, however, will seek refuge in Europe. The numbers that roll up on our southern border will be limited only by the capacity of the cartels to organize this trade. At a minimum, expect another two to three million food refugees to enter the US this year.
It is an open question whether our already strained infrastructure will be able to handle the load. Since our government will never follow in Hungary’s footsteps, there is a very real possibility that our cities will run short of food … and we all know how that will play out.
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Yep.
It’s a feature, not a bug . . .
There is a reason why African starve.
They are not allowed to use non organic pesticides or non organic fertilizer in many of the African countries.
The farmers can not grow enough food to feed their people.
Ever since I have been small their has been a “Feed the African” money drives by so many well meaning American churches.
African has never been allowed to develop and grow, the African nations have been kept poor and starving on purpose.
It is for a reason.
Pictures of skeletal starving africans have been around for over 60 years and no one wonders why in the world this continent does not pull itself up and out of poverty .
Why does it languish so badly in grinding poverty.
Because the leaders of the world want it there and keep it there on purpose.
Some of the African nations do not have ag land but many do and they laws were put in place to keep them from developing into countries that could at least feed themselves.
I will not go on a long expansive write up here except to say that there is no reason for African countries to ban non organic pesticides and non organic fertilizer.
It was a crazy way to starve your people to guarantee farmers to fail and to guarantee food importation forever.
They either ran off or murdered the white farmers in Africa and stole their land. The people that took over the land did not know how to farm. Went from bread basket to famine real quick. The Elite in Europe and the US made it possible.
It would also help if they used wells and irrigation
And they killed most of the white farmers.
When nations are backed into a corner isn’t Economic Nationalism(survival) the natural reaction? “We will not export that which is necessary for the survival of our own people!” Is that a bad thing in the current atmosphere?
Pasta shelf pretty much wiped clean at my local grocery store, much worse than when the Rona was clearing shelves. Plenty of jars of sauce though.
Farmers need fertilizer, everyone could take their scraps to compost. Not the same, but ya know, gotta do something.
Or you could put a chicken house in the back yard. Chickens produce good fertilizer for a garden as well as providing eggs.
Need a rooster, also, Just Saying.
No you don’t. They’re only if you want fertilized eggs to hatch more chicks.
But at least we don’t have any mean tweets….
Maybe we should stop growing our fuel in farmland and grow food instead.
yup.as i said on another topic,here in iowa 53% of corn goes to ethanol plants,not to mention all the water they use.it’s getting to the point to where water will be the new gold.markets today said 16 bucks for beans,with the coming cost of fuel and fertilizer this years crop could be 30 bucks a bushel.
Part of the Communist Revolution is acheived from those thousand paper cuts.
Is it me or does it seem like the former Communist hardliner USSR is the only government that seems to not be ok with the world being taken over by Communists? Dang!
Yep, hilarious of not so serious, the USSR of old is definitely not the Russian Federation of now.
Today’s Russians completely understand what the communist Bolsheviks done to their country in the past, not only that,but in studying the USSR archives after the collapse they found out exactly how the communist system gained and held power.
An excellent aurguement can be given if the Russian Federations actions and words since the 1990s were all put into the correct context that they have in fact been warning the West .
It’s the Western commies that won’t let go of the whole Russia boogeyman thing, this therefore makes them the real culprits in today’s situation.
The prescription dry kibble that one of my cats needs to eat has jumped 35% in price over the last 18 to 24 months and 5% in just a few weeks. I had enough through December but I ordered 2 more bags today which will get me through next February. Canned cat food is also up about 10% since the fall and often out of stock at the store so I ordered it, too, to get us through December for the two cats who eat that. I also ordered an American made pressure canner from Lehmans today to can meat, soups, veggies, etc. I prefer fresh or frozen but I more prefer just having a food supply.
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Thanks for the tip on the canner and Lehmans.
I will probably be purchasing a canner soon as well (they are currently out of stock of the one I want to get). The Lehmans website has some nice informative videos on how to can. I watched 3 of them.
I highly recommend the All American canners. I can 32 pints at a time
Eat your cats
Just kidding been stocking up on dog food as well.
Biden cut off a normal source of locally produced fertilizer by cutting off oil production, claiming climate change. Is it really about minimizing mouth breathers? If “mouth breathers” and “farm animals” are the Co2 problem, why are we allowing unmitigated immigration to the US to increase that number?
If we can’t get fertilizer from Russia, it seems that “we the people” must establish large scale compost systems to replace fertilizer shortfalls to help small local farmers to get through the problem. I have ideas about how to amend US farm soils without petroleum based fertilizers using US sourced materials as well.
It’s about thinking outside the box to feed our population as we clean out the corruption and treason in government.
There are certain crops that replenish nitrogen in the soil. Proper crop rotation as practiced by the old school farmers is all that is needed. My uncle refused to let the government agriculture agents on the property and had bumper crops, he said their advice could ruin good land in just couple of years.
Also, as a consequence of inflation (trade settled in dollars), inventory sold is a loss, inventory retained is a gain as it can be sold for more. Only a fool empties his warehouse in advance of inflation. So, in addition to food security for their people, stopping exports makes economic sense. Oh to have a benevolent government…
Energy Dominance
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Food-Chain Independence
I believe the impending food shortages are going to hit the major cities, and their surrounding metropolitan areas hard.
Those geographic locations are major population hubs, so a huge question is how will that population react?
I have no idea. Those areas are typically tinder kegs to begin with, so what happens when the population becomes desperate for food?
It doesn’t take much to ignite those areas — only a tiny spark.
What will the Government’s response be?
So many questions. America has not traveled down this road before, so we’re just guessing.
I criticize the Amish for some of their practices, but will be very grateful for their close proximity to me when the time comes that food may become scarce. They’re an ingenious population, and will undoubtedly increase their prices — but at least the food will be there.
They will keep moving out of the city’s, Stealing what they need. Heading to a home near you!
You think someone might have given our “friend” ‘Ol BillyBob Gates a heads up on this one?
cause of death – nutrient dislocation.
The ones who smash and grab Louis Vuitton purses & luggage, will move on to grocery stores.
They’ll continue hitting the high luxury retailers, just expand their target market.
hey fat! hey phat!Comment below, “The shortages coming to the US are manmade disasters created on purpose by Old Joe and his gang of nefarious misfits.”
Wasn’t there a guy in the 1920s named Uncle Joe who created a famine for his folks. I think it was Ukraine then. If history only rhymes, Joseph and Joseph sure look the same.
And here we are in the 2020s.
The cycle begins anew.
Communists and rust never sleep.
“Food Protectionism”. Is it rayciss too?
Asking for a friend.
There is more to the story. Nitrogen for fertilizer has become a bit scarce because a lot of it is being diverted into alternative energy production.
China has banned the export of phosphates so they can use it to try to replace the 2/3 of their swine herd that they had to cull due to another nasty virus.
Russian and Ukraine are 2 of the biggest producers of potash (potassium for fertilizers).
The end result is that there will be very little fertilizer for export anywhere this year. Ukraine likely won’t plant any wheat this year and I think they were the #4 exporter of same. We’ll be ‘ok’ but with higher prices. A lot of people will be going hungry next winter.
CiA/DTRA probably caused that nasty pig virus. Also the crop virus that devastated China’s corn crop last year.
While we are at it, might as well wonder about the torrential rains that suppressed their rice growing.
Although grand solar minimums do correlate with cold and very rainy weather, so could be that yoo.
Green River Wyoming produces enough for US but are shut down by FJB.
Corn and Soybean Farmer to Americans: Your Grocery Bill Is Going to Go Up $1,000 a Month
https://www.westernjournal.com/corn-soybean-farmer-americans-grocery-bill-going-go-1000-month/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=teaparty&utm_content=2022-03-04&utm_campaign=manualpost&fbclid=IwAR0iwnMlriCYBcoLuVh0aWWfe1wfx54ZeMnN85Jcc0lLD9snO73X9J9wE9A
Read that article today and wondered how many people live on that or less. I do notice grocers are selling more cheap meat cuts and organs you don’t see much until times like these.
Notice they have their readymade canards in place. That which cannot be blamed on the “covid-19 pandemic” shall be blamed on “Russia’s invasion of Ukraine”.
It is always everybody else’ fault. The demonic cabal – the original dindu nuffiners.
Victory Gardens! Old school gardening focused on open-pollinated seeds, natural fertilizers, natural bug & pest control, the role of dogs & cats, manual tools, Old Farmers Almanac & timing of planting & harvesting, canning, drying, pickling, having a root-cellar, chickens, rabbits, goat(s), co-ops, markets, CLOSE friends & relatives, etc.
You will eat better, not have weight problems, no poison manufactured foods, happier kids and SECURITY! You’ll be so busy you might be able to understand God better; yourself too.
Now you know why China and Bill Gates have been buying up American farms. One saw food shortage coming, and one was going to contribute to it with the great reset.
Background sources:
https://www.politico.com/news/2021/07/19/china-buying-us-farms-foreign-purchase-499893
https://www.vox.com/platform/amp/recode/22528659/bill-gates-largest-farmland-owner-cascade-investments
A lot of countries won’t trade grain now, as they are worried they will have nothing for their own people.
My advice, is bulk buy cornmeal, flour, and packet mixes of cake/biscuits etc if those are what you eat, and don’t forget corn oil. In a few months, there will be none!
What Countries need food? on a scale.
Middle East? Oil for Food. Alliances can come from needs.
the question is What Country needs the USA, if the US Military has been sacked at its leadership, and our military value is gone. What is the USA’s value
Vaccine production and patents
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e who relies on highly-processed foods, is going to pay way more than people eating whole foods. You already don’t know what’s “in there”, and who knows what ingredient substitutions will be made when stuff gets more scarce?
Anyone whwho
A hungry man has nothing to lose and will at some point take what he he needs even if he dies doing so. He will attack those who caused the problems . All the military in the world will not save the so called “elite”.
YEP. I work part time at a golf course in Ohio and they saw this coming last fall and bought their entire fertilizer and chemicals for this upcoming year. Good thing. The price of them went up 300% from last years prices….One problem though of course, they and every other course will now have to raise their rates substantially. ALL of this can be laid right at the feet of a Federal Government that has instituted restriction after restriction on the chemical/fertilizer industry as they have others, resulting in the Corporations producing those chemicals and fertilizers to move off shore and putting us in this condition, along with losing American jobs. We need to dramatically clean out our Congress….PERIOD….