First things first, there is no need for panic, and it is important to remember the United States is a net food exporter. The U.S. is blessed with a food production and capacity industry that leads the world. We have fertile land, abundant harvests and the strong advantage of food independence.
That said, the influence of multinational corporations in our agriculture industry over the past three decades has ramifications, and we have outlined exhaustively, on these pages, what the real-world consequences are. As we head into a chapter of global food crisis, the food production capacity of the United States can be viewed as an asset, but only insofar as we are willing to secure a national food supply for our own America-First interests.
What we have talked about prudently on these pages is now coming into greater focus, as global leaders are beginning to prepare their own citizens for the long-term consequences of their disruption to the food supply chain.
The meteor of government intervention hit the ocean back in the spring of 2020, when government intervened in the food supply process, the tsunami -the ripple effect from that intervention- is now within sight of shore.
I’m not going to repeat the history here. CTH readers already know the details {Go Deep} – for everyone else, use the site search function. As a result of intervention, global COVID intervention, food stocks were depleted. Combined with increased energy costs, driven by the ideological chase for climate change under the guise of ‘Build Back Better,’ we end up with higher fertilizer costs for this year.
The ripple effect becomes a tsunami, and the next round of global food harvests becomes more critically important and simultaneously more expensive. For the past three months, the sound of the alarms have grown louder. Now, people are really starting to pay attention.
(Food Supply Chain) […] Commodity markets are soaring — wheat is up about 50% in two weeks and corn just touched a decade high. The surging costs could end up weighing on currencies in emerging markets, where food represents a bigger share of consumer-price baskets. And analysts are predicting export flows will continue to be disrupted for months even if the war were to end tomorrow.
The crisis extends beyond just the impact of grain exports (critical as they are). Russia is also a key supplier for fertilizers. Virtually every major crop in the world depends on inputs like potash and nitrogen, and without a steady stream, farmers will have a harder time growing everything from coffee to rice and soybeans.
Plainly speaking, there are few other places on the planet where a conflict like this could create such a devastating blow to ensuring that food supplies stay plentiful and affordable. It’s why Russia and Ukraine are known as the breadbaskets to the world. (read more)
There is some alarmism in that last cited paragraph. Russia and Ukraine are not “breadbaskets to the world“; they are breadbaskets to Europe, parts of the middle east and parts of Asia (in the northern hemisphere). It is more accurate to say Russia and Ukraine are to Europe what the United States is to North America.
Canada and Mexico could survive without the U.S. farmland, but they would have to modify quickly. Europe, the U.K and Scandinavia can survive without Russia/Ukraine, but they too would need to modify quickly.
Analogously, Central America would be less impacted by U.S. harvest disruptions than eastern Asia, the destination for most of our agricultural exports. The beneficiaries of Ukraine/Russia harvests in Southern Europe and the Middle East are more vulnerable than the beneficiaries in the U.K and northern Europe.
The issue for us, in the United States, is going to be increased global demand for agricultural food products from us to fill any void created by the Ukraine Russia conflict.
This demand side issue is made more complicated by multinational ownership of our farm outputs (Big Ag). Corporate ownership of U.S. food products *could become* an issue if we have external geopolitical influences upon the U.S food supply.
The United States government has never had to view food supplies as a national security threat. However, because supply has never been an issue, and because the multinational ownership rose up during a time frame when supply was never an issue, there is no reference point for how (or even if) the U.S. government will react if domestic food outputs are distributed away from American citizens by corporations chasing the highest financial return.
Think about it.
NOTE: Wheat, corn and soybeans are the foundation of the U.S. food supply. They are primarily used as ingredients in processed foods, oils, and are fed to the cattle, hogs, and poultry that supply meat and eggs for the American diet. When those grain harvests go up in price, the downstream increase in price is far reaching.
Remember, there is no such thing as a “commodity” market in the free market sense of the word. Those commodity markets are now “controlled markets“, and fully under the control of massive multinational agricultural corporations.
It is critical to think of BIG AG in the same way we already are familiar with multinational manufacturing of durable goods.
We are already familiar how China, Mexico and ASEAN nations export our raw materials (ore, coking coal, rare earth minerals etc.). The raw materials to manufacture goods are then trans-shipped back into the U.S. for purchase.
It is within this decades-long process where we lost the manufacturing base, and the multinational economic planners (World Trade Organization) put us on a path to being a “service driven” economy.
The road to a “service-driven economy” is paved with a great disparity between financial classes. The wealth gap is directly related to the inability of the middle class to thrive.
Elite financial interests, including those within Washington DC, gain wealth and power, while the U.S. workforce is reduced to servitude, “service”, of their affluent needs. The destruction of the U.S. industrial and manufacturing base is EXACTLY WHY the wealth gap has exploded in the past 30 years.
With that familiarity, did you think the multinationals would stop with only “DURABLE GOODS”?
They don’t.
They didn’t.
The exact same exfiltration and exploitation has been happening, with increased speed, over the past 20 years with “CONSUMABLE GOODS“, i.e. food.
Raw material foodstuff is exported to China, ASEAN nations and Mexico, processed and shipped back into the U.S. as a finished product. This is the same design-flow with food as previously exploited by other economic sectors, including auto manufacturing.
Multinational corporations, BIG AG, are now invested in controlling the outputs of U.S. agricultural industry and farmers. This overall process is why food prices were rising so fast in the past decade. Government COVID intervention in the food supply chain made these pricing issues worse. Government energy policy under the guise of Build Back Better is pouring fuel into the inflationary furnace.
The free market was not determining price before COVID; there was no “supply and demand” influence in the modern agricultural dynamic. Food commodities have been a controlled market just like durable goods. The raw material (harvests writ large) was exploited by the financial interests of massive multinational corporations.
All of these dynamics created the meteor which quietly hit the ocean when no one noticed.
Now the tsunami warning sirens are sounding and people are starting to wonder why…
https://twitter.com/disclosetv/status/1501615225526697997
This global “crisis” could provide the perfect entry for global government to fundamentally transform their relationship with the people.
Food insecurity will generate massive demands on governments around the world for solutions.
Even the preppers, who are well prepared for what might happen, will be subject to the outcomes of the government solutions, just like all travelers having to take their shoes off at the airport security check. We all live in the same world, so when they change it for the few, it changes for the many.
Final thought… even if you are well prepared for the worst-case scenario, when they hand the ration cards or food/gas coupons, get in line with everyone else and use them – even if you don’t need them. Do not draw any attention to yourself. Do not behave any differently than anyone else. Even if it doesn’t suck for you, give the appearance that it does. Keep the eyes of a mouse and the ears of an elephant.
Wonderful… plague then famine!
Let’s Go Brandon!
F–k Joe Biden
#FIFY
The thing that always gets me is the Progressive keep harping about him as he is a great man. All of Biden’s accomplishments were mediocre at best. His most notable speeches were ones he plagiarized from better and smarter people.
His character was always lacking as well as his judgement in his prime. He pilloried Clarence Thomas not just because of political differences, but because I always felt he enjoyed grinding people into the ground. It goes with his “tough guy” veneer he tried to exude by always fails in the attempt.
And now… we face a crisis that could make the Cuba Missile Crisis pale in comparison. And assuming we pull out of that unscathed we have famine as the next crisis.
And the Progressive will still think he’s better than Pres. Trump… because in the end… the Progressive and Democrats are a Cult and I just hope we can survive them!
see that squirrel there?….nothing to worry about here because we have all seen the concern the AMERICAN multinationals have for America’s population…..they will use this occasion to further gouge us and their other customers with whatever profits they think they can get away with
That squirrel you mentioned just might be dinner down the road.
Keep a fishing line handy, too!
And don’t forget to buy a smoker because I bet squirrel and woodchuck probably taste much better smoked.
fried grey squirrel ( not ground squirrels) with gravy is quite tasty
I found squirrel to be rather “stringy!” Rabbit made excellent “pot pie!”
As it’s always been, they did it to the Irish. The Irish famine wasn’t because of the potato blight, it was because of English landlords and England’s agg policies.
I recently did some historical investigating on just that subject, and you’re right; it wasn’t the food it was the overlords in charge who caused the problems, as usual. And now, here we are again at the same crossroads . . .
As they say, FJB. Or should that be FIX joe biden?! I can think of several “fixes” I’d like to see him in . . .
They WILL make it a crisis for us for they see us as the biggest enemy – it isn’t fair that we have food! Stop being so selfish and share with our brothers in Europe/Asia.
Also perhaps the multinationals will say “It is OUR grain, not yours. So what if it was grown in the U.S.”
Do without and flatten the curve
I think that the Famine will do a better job of flattening the curve then the Jab!
Should be flattening a few that deserve it.
Just for two short weeks!!!
Would probably take the military to help them export that grain………..likely they wouldn’t just be able to load up trucks and head to the nearest port………
That grain is sprayed with so much toxic crap I wouldn’t use it for anything. Bake a loaf of bread and stuff it in ol’ joe’s mouth. Give some to COMMALA while you’re at it. And then go down the line . . . heh.
I’m not a ‘told you so’ type person, but as I have stated many times here over the years, the favorite weapon of the evil, satanic communist scum is starvation, food is the one weapon in their Arsenal that all others are centered around.
History states this fact over and over again.
Precisely!
35 years ago we bought an oceanfront shack for cheap. ( it came with oversized rats)
We assisted a relative in buying a small holding not far from the shack. a few years later.
We were scoffed at! Buy a McMansion they said.
Well, we are well sourced for eggs, veggies, prawns, crab, Salmon oysters and the like.
Our older son is a hunter, and Elk meat is nice in season.
It nice too, being able to gift or trade stuff of quality to like minded rebels.
The scoffers are re mortgaging the McMansions to go to McDonalds.😉
Cheers M!
I hope you are working on an in-depth plan friend. The game will be gone quickly once the stores are empty.
Nicely put 😝 !
And I have parroted something similar. The two greatest motivators in life is fear and hunger.
The plague fear is waning, the Russia fear is a bust and by default, hunger is getting closer to becoming a tool that the evil cartel will use.
There is huge difference between “need” and “want”, M. But you of all people know this.
If we continue as we are…and for the immediate future, if ever, I can’t see anything changing…there will be millions who will begin to understand the difference between having the newest and shiniest whatevers and living smaller lives and being content.
The latest iteration of an IPhone isn’t edible. B
.
Ok, but don’t the 3D printers spit out foodstuffs . . .?
300 years in future fantasy land they do.
I doubt I can wait that long.
Not necessarily. Water will become your most important need in short order. You can eat leaves and weeds, if necessary & careful.
I found a book in my basement. No idea where it came from.
How to Stay Alive in the Woods
by Bradford Angier
1956
NWO, so far , hasn’t been able to kill enough people via the vaxxes. Taking too long. Easier, faster to choke off the food supply and starve a couple billion than have to wait another 2-3 years for the vaxxes to work. Nazis turned to gas chambers when shooting tens of thousands of Jews took too much time, had bad effects on the shooters.
My friends cousin collapsed and died two days after the vaccine. He was healthy prior to being jabbed.
Friend who found him is still alive and well…. he did not take the vaccine, although his wife did and she has been sick ever since.
The jab killed my uncle too. A healthy, happy, hard working veteran before the jab.
Sorry to hear about your friend’s cousin.
My fully vaxxed and boosted SIL died of massive blood clots in her lungs and legs last month.
That’s why billyboy gates now owns land all over the place. He doesn’t want YOU to be able to buy land and plant anything worth eating. Ditto for biden’s gubmint goons.
But if we are patient, we will be feeding them dirt real soon.
Bill Gates may own hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland but how will he secure it? When hungry people descend like locusts he won’t have a big enough army to keep them out
Be wise as a serpent and harmless as a dove.
BTW, flour can be frozen, will keep for a couple years in the bottom of a chest freezer.
Then what after the couple years?
As Sundance said…we get in the food line and get the ration.
It gets in the line and it gets the ration.
Apologies to Hannibal Lecter.
No, you get in the ration line immediately… or your absence WILL be noted.
It’s going to take small, rural “communities” to grow, defend and control food growth and trade. I don’t mean communities in today’s sense… we need to think much more like Amish communities.
Right now is a desperate time already to secure books on regional plants, homestead medicine, homestead first aid, and garden growing.
Bonus hint; try to buy books with plastic coated pages for durability.
Then you better be planting potatoes in your garden. Calories.
Start planting ground cover around your home with perennial flowers, peonies for example. Plant your vegetables inter-mixed within these flower beds to hide your produce, gardens draw attention.
I’m not saying don’t plant a garden but rather expect it to be raided and allow it to be the distraction from the hidden garden veggies.
Day lilies are edible, roots, shoots and flowers.
cat tails offer lots of opportunity, too.
I just bought a book about foraging for edible plants.
Live in a pretty rural area, strange as it used to sound when we first moved out here, neighbors met and talked about planting and live stock. Now they meet to discuss plantings, live stock, fields of fire and mutual defense
Buy a book on that subject though, because not all flowers and veggies are friends.
Buy vacuum sealed wheat berries and a grinder. If you don’t have 1 get a vacuum sealer or 2.
Learn to can, grow food on the sly. Start now
Get chickens and feed it to them, mixed with ground fruit, meat and vegetable scraps.
Although that works for a healthy and fattened chicken. People must be reminded that chickens get all they need from free ranging their food. Supply a safe place to roost so you don’t have to go on egg hunts all the time.
I lost an entire free range flock to neighbor dogs last summer. If you range the chickens, get flock guardian dogs and train them. I can’t afford dogs, so my hens are penned now. FJB!
I have electric poultry net and it makes superb protection for my chickena. For attacks from the air, I provide low shelters here and there, which the chickens dive under if they see a hawk. Heritage breeds are bright that way, heavy meat breeds not so much. The net has built-in poles you press into the ground, and is light and easy to move.
Free-ranging may be sufficient elsewhere but here in the desert of southeastern AZ, free-ranging means eating dirt and pebbles and an occasional bug or dried root. No grass. Even the weeds have dried up and blown away.
I think you meant supply a safe place to nest, like a box. A roost is a place where chickens sleep off the ground. You don’t want hens laying where they roost because they poop in their sleep.
You will have used, bartered, given away or prepared it for re-storage.
Unless they go after the grid next.
Long term storage food should be in everyone’s closet along with water and purification pills
Why the “water purification pills”? Are we thinking water will be turned off too? I simply don’t understand?
They could run out of chlorination. Or power could fail.
Water needs power to get to you, no power…no water.
Which is why I have a pitcher pump on my well.
Thanks didn’t know that.
Iodine also purifies water.
Kelp is a good source of iodine. You can get it in t he powdered form.
We celiacs know you can ground rice into a fine powder like flour. Blender.
You can make almost everything, and right now, rice is cheaper than flour. You can buy rice flour already ground, but it is cheaper if you buy the grains.
Buy Swimming pool chlorine .
It has gone from $99 /35 lb. to $199/35 lb.!! And hard to get, even so.
The right kind of iodine will do that, but be careful.
We have a Lifestraw water purifier.
Food production in the United States will not change one iota. I don’t know of one farmer who is cutting back production of any acre he farms. The cost of fertilizer is higher, but so is the price for what he produces.
it is NOT the yields here in the US that are critical….it is the MARKETS they send that produced food too instead
buy local
that IS a solution for the local farmer….does NOT work well with the HUGE conglomerate farms though
Would love to buy local. Some of us live where there aren’t any farms.
Sorta reminds me of the early eighties.
Minus the 14% interest to operate.
.. At least … so far.
I know several who are not planting and several who have said farming and ranching just not worth the stress anymore. Btwn fuel prices, feed prices and fertilizer prices the game is fixed.
Talk to them and maybe they will change their minds and put a crop in that would benefit their local area.
you cannot plant a field or raise livestock under the cover of darkness, the government will find and take what you have.
There are always farmers who go out and there are always farmers who come in and take their place. I have never seen an acre remain idle because a farmer left.
All the farms around me are becoming housing lots.
You are missing the point . . .
The point is to create: chaos, fear, hysteria, drama just as Covid and anything else to keep the public’s attention away from the Crooked’s nefarious intentions.
Big Ag will ship food offshore for higher profits. SD has pointed out how this happens now with the multinationals, right?
it is a little deeper than that….they INTENTIONALLY create localized shortages so they can increase profits
so a loaf of bread will be $10…good quality bread like Mike’s is already $5.69 here…
Thanks or the tip on freezing flour. I just stocked up on it and the last bag might go into the freezer if I can free up some room.
I think it’s time to re-read the chapter in Atlas Shrugged on the wheat versus soybean harvests. A corruptocrat decides to muck with transportation of the wheat because she believes soybeans are “healthier.” It goes downhill from there…
Wheat grain will keep for decades. Buy a good manual grinder.
Butter too!
Ghee (clarified butter) is shelf stable even after opening the jar! I’m just now learning its benefits.
Store it with a bay leaf, if you don’t have a big enough freezer. The bay leaf will keep bugs away (supposedly).
dust the bags with diatomaceous earth. It kills crawly things.
Freezing it also kills any insects and larvae. Do it with every bag you buy.
you can also freeze uncooked brown rice to extend its shelf life…brown rice has a shorter shelf life due to the oil in it vs white rice
Buy the wheat berries whole and double bagged, and they’ll last up to 25 years.
And it’s all preventable yet they continue to starve people and rape your pockets.
“My 600 Lb Life” maybe forced into cancellation.
Hoping food shortages will recalibrate how the government do-gooders distribute food.
Responsible people are already preparing by moving to rural areas, starting gardens, raising poultry and/or doing what makes sense for our families.
“My 600 Lb Life” maybe forced into cancellation.>
The sequel: ‘My 78 Lb Life’ 🙂
😂😂😂
Get the T-shirt — I survived anorexia
Available in Extra Small only 🙂
And amazing thing….
No pizza delivery in rural areas!
And if you live 30 minutes from any McDonald’s, Burger King…even better !
Fast food is addictive. And really not healthy.
I been watching and waiting I knew this was coming.
I’ve been trying to keep family, friends and brethren informed.
Many have become lurkers right here as result.
With gasoline prices rising and food prices increasing now the thought of food scarcity in these modern times is unnerving.
But I’m not all shocked a lack of food must precede famine.
And we all done got the heads up about all of this: plaques, wars, famines and death.
I was unable to report on my blueMA (north and west of Boston by a few towns) gas price during that recent thread because I hadn’t been outside driving since my last week’s fillup at $3.69.
Today the signs I passed read exactly a dollar higher: $4.69.
No wonder the shills are all over the media saying that it’s “worth a dollar to support Ukraine.”
As usual the math is a tad off. 😄 Do they have cars with single-gallon tanks?
And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.
And when he had opened the second seal, I heard the second beast say, Come and see.
And there went out another horse that was red: and power was given to him that sat thereon to take peace from the earth, and that they should kill one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.
And when he had opened the third seal, I heard the third beast say, Come and see. And I beheld, and lo a black horse; and he that sat on him had a pair of balances in his hand.
And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.
And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.
And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth. – Revelation 6:2-8
Keep in mind the “he” in that scripture is the “Lamb of God” AFTER the Rapture….when you see a large number of people simply not there anymore and critical industries suffering from a lack of competent workers THEN the 7 years of Trials and Tribulations will begin
Per 2 Thess Paul points out the anti-christ must be revealed before the rapture.
Also per Revelation 6 the martyrs cry out to God at the 5th seal asking why He has not started His judgement yet. This means the first four seals, which are the four horsemen, are NOT God’s judgement but rather Satan’s tribulation.
The rapture does not occur until the 6th seal, which Matt 24 describes as the harvest.
If you read scripture critically you’ll see there is no pre-tribulation rapture. Read Matthew 24. Also note that the ones “taken” are the ones going to hell, the ones left behind are believers. Just like Noah and his family were left.
Yes fuzzi, I think it’s taking place.
The Greek word for “bow” is “toxon” from which the English word “toxin” is derived. Fitting that these gene therapies are proving themselves to be toxins. Biblical.
Good advice.
A transition job for all the mask monitors, “Karens” will act like Stasi for folks who have food reserves.
.
They really love to turn family members against each other. Also a goal of Satin by-the-way.
This ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️
Well, another 100lbs of rice just ordered.
Rice stays good for prolonged periods. You can use a can of meat (chicken/ham/tuna) and seasoning and make a full meal with just 1 cup. Boring if you need to eat it every day but beats starving.
Yup. I’d rather be bored than starve.
Buckwheat stays for years
And there’s mochi….. a big favorite here.
There are Carmelite nuns in Colorado who only eat rice and beans, or beans and rice during Lent. They try to come up with different kinds of beans for some variety, but the meal is still rice and beans.
We still have the musket ball scars on the local buildings as a reminder of the, ‘bread or blood riots’, 200 years ago. For a self-styled global elite they do seem to love imbibing a toxic cocktail of ignorance and stupidity.
“They” must feel confident the American spirit is dead, easily controlled and we will just lay down and give in to Satan.
any evidence they won’t? I see little.
This thread Is the evidence genius lol. I like almost all your posts tyshab and your perspective is invaluable to this community, but no giving up. We all feel down sometimes, and the current state of affairs can be overwhelming, but here we are with like minded people who intend to go through living hell to survive with their souls intact (if necessary). And if we don’t survive we end our days on our feet and fighting to the end. It’s going to take an enormous amount of work, but we are strong. Technology and convenience have made many of us soft, including myself.
We live in the United States of America! We should not preparing to go through hell but preparing to put them through hell!
I am not giving up, just refusing to take the perspective the only way out is through.
It’s a year + from now that concerns me. A compromised planting season due to exorbitant fuel/fertilizer costs, or some regions note planting altogether like Ukraine.
I am not a stereotypical prepper, but I am building up a store of long term foods while they are available. I’m following suggestions from certain LDS websites. The thing is I’m not sure how much is enough.
This is all new territory that I’m learning how to navigate. I am planning on getting the garden operational again for fresh veggies. We do have productive citrus trees on our property.
You will never have too much, just keep doing what you are doing.
Thing is, it’s all well and good to prepare for a year or two. My question is Why would anyone want to live in the hellhole that the world would become? You think that if you grow your own food that gangs of desperate people wouldn’t just take it?
Ha!!!! I wish they’d try! Most people that go to the trouble of growing their own food have guns and ammo to protect it.
Dee is right. There may not be enough, so keep producing.
It sounds like security might be something you want to look at.
Good working dogs are a must for any food growing operation in this area. We depend on ours.
Go by Calories. Approximate how many calories you (and your family eat), knowing that calories might get hard to come by, and focus on high calorie foods such as, meat, potatoes, corn, beans, etc. Beans are by far an excellent meat replacement. Beans are still plentiful and there are all kinds to choose from – cheap and still available – provide fiber and protein. Make sure you have plenty of seasonings/spices because plain food can be difficult to eat. You can grow potatoes in a garbage can or a felt bag – lots of ways when you’re low on space. But, net net, focus on high calorie foods and do the math based on number in your family, months, years, etc. Make it a goal to get a week’s extra, then a month(s), and go from there.
Canned Black beans, at room temp, with some ranch dressing taste surprisingly good. Cold ones, for some reason, aren’t as tasty. Many bean dishes taste good with Russian dressing (:-() too.
A mild, partial disagreement please. Go by Nutrition. The human body absolutely needs vitamins, essential healthy fatty acids, essential amino acids, and minerals. These will keep one alive and healthy. Starches and sugars will also help keep one alive, but not healthy.
Beans and potatoes are almost complete foods in that regard…almost. And please do not use the USDA recommendations for any reason.
And don’t forget microgreens. Very healthy windowsill greenery when you can’t grow anything else.
The USDA sucks, along with FDA, BigAG, Heart Assns, Diabetes Assns, Med Assns, etc. These have been sold out decades. It is like they are trying to kill us.
Consider doing a study of nutrition on your own. This forum is not the correct place for a discussion.
survivalblog dot com has good lists.
And of course this is what many of us have expected. Government intervention/meddling in American farming, combined with lack of government action in monopoly enforcement will only see fewer companies control farm and livestock markets. Plus, what sane government allows their domestic food production be bought by foreign countries?
I don’t know of one farmer anywhere planning on cutting back his crop production. Don’t fall for the Libtard bullshit. Libtard bullshit is always bullshit…now that too you don’t have to concern yourself with shortage of supply.
Farmers have no control over where the buyer sells their products. And they have already sold this year’s produce this January. The buyers have already contracted for the food and the farmers have already sold their produce before it is even planted.
Maybe some contracts could be broken along with some heads.
It is called “Hedging”. Some farmers “hedge” and some don’t. Rarely does a farmer “Hedge” his whole crop in advance. I know some who have and lost big-time having done so.
I do like the idea of hedging enough to cover projected production expenses.
Although most farmers are not planning on ‘not’ planting, many are cutting back on the amounts of chemicals per acre. This will produce lower yields.
Not my area farmers. At these inflated prices for what they grow, they are vigorously going after every bit of per acre yield they can get out of an acre.
It would be like a car dealer to stop selling cars because he used to buy a car for $40,000 and sell it for $50,000. But he now has to pay $50, 000, but sells it for $60,000, saying I am going to stop selling cars.
Ask any farmer:
Whats better?
More yields or lesser yields.
Ive yet to meet a farmer who thought growing less was a good thing.
I have been in it and around it all my life and I have yet to experience anything different than you have. Lol
“Even if you are well prepared for the worst-case scenario – when they hand the ration cards or food/gas coupons get in line with everyone else and use them, even if you don’t need them. Do not draw any attention to yourself. Do not behave any differently than anyone else. Even if it doesn’t suck for you, give the appearance that it does. ”
Defiance to tyranny is duty to God. I will never get in their line because it will come with strings attached. Defiance, flat out, is the only way. You’d think you’d have learned that lesson by now, but I suppose we all have our limits that we just won’t rely on God for. Food stamps from an illegitimate government are nothing more than an admittance that you need them more than you trust God. Jesus survived 40 days without food and now He resides in us…this government can offer me nothing that I will accept short of every politician bending their knee to Christ and serving out their due punishment for stealing the voice of the people.
Then you can deal with the folks in line who notice you aren’t and decide to visit you at an unexpected hour perhaps armed.
Would you stand in the line, though, to feed a child? We bend on behalf of those we love. The powers that be know this.
I believe you would not stand in the line but would pray and wait on God. But others will stand in line.
Time for every Christian to learn Psalm 91 and put it to work (speak it out of your mouth with Faith). Ask God for wisdom and protection and how to be a Blessing to others. Faith not Fear.
Their claim of bread basket of the world…..who writes their stories? Fire them !
Well we have known for awhile …
Thank you Sundance !
I have mentioned to family and friends what was coming.
Time for people to learn how to cook again!
This will be chain reaction.
I would love to see an interview with Goya about all of this.
Watched the movie, ‘Left Behind’ last night. How the Antichrist came into power by controlling the worlds food supply. Sounds familiar.
Ask Ireland how it felt when millions starved during the potato blight, as England shipped grain and cattle out of Ireland to feed England.
When there are empty bellies, luxuries like whining about faux racism and faux climate change fade away on the priority list.
I’m an American because my Irish great grandparents were forced to leave with their kids or stay and starve.
Are the bowls being poured out?
Not yet. I do however envision they are part of the outcome of what man is doing to himself right now.
The antichrist would have to be in power, and wickedness at an all-time high, for the bowls [of God’s wrath] to be poured out, correct?
Not yet, but I think the seals are possibly being opened.
Look up Canadian Earthquake Researcher on Twitter. He is predicting a worldwide earthquake in the next two years and his evidence is compelling.
Too little, too late is a horrible thing to go through. But better than none at all.
Don’t lose hope if you are just now beginning to pay attention.
Do what you can with what you have. Start buying in bulk now.
If you are reasonably prepared, do a full blown inventory and fill in those holes.
This PSA brought to you by Mr Itoldyouso
“There will be chronic food shortages and gas shortages and people will live in hovels. Paradoxically, they’ll be surrounded by computers the size of wrist watches. Calculators will be cheap. It’ll be as easy to hookup your computer with a central television bank as it is to get the week’s groceries.”
-David Byrne of the band Talking Heads in 1979, on the release of their song “Life In Wartime”.
Great musician, great band, and my favorite song they do!
Been a fan since HS.
Me too!
#MeToo
Nope….they totally lost me when they performed at Bourbon and Beyond a couple of years ago and had to get all anti-Trump…
David, please, just shut up and sing, like I payed you to do.
Add to this one third of our corn crops is used (wasted) in blending ethanol. Anything the current administration does in regards to this impending disaster will make it worse especially for American citizens.
Don’t get hung up on the names so much because these punks always change names to stay hidden.
Today they are W.E.F. , before it was Bilderberg or Club of Rome or Tri-Lateralists.
Just remember – they WANT this crisis, they planned it.
” In searching for a new enemy to unite us , we came up with the idea that pollution , the threat of global warming , water shortages , FAMINE and the like would fit the bill . . . . It is only through changed attitudes and behavior that they can be overcome . The real enemy then is HUMANITY ITSELF .”
” First Global Revolution ” – Club of Rome 1991
Globalist Agenda. org/quotes
There was a reason why Sam Walton continued driving that old pickup truck even after he became a billionaire.
Food has been the majority of the world’s wealth throughout history.
Fuel (food at the most basic level) has always been true money. Gold and Silver then paper dollars now electrons were the the derivative component that increased the world’s economy by eliminating the inefficiency of barter (double coincidence of wants).
Electricity and liquid fuels allowed expansion of and introduction of secondary aspects of wealth that is the living standard we have today.
Disruption of that (as in the Holodomor…) has long been what the Globalist/Bolsheviks/Fascists sought. There was enough food there back then.
Control food. Control the population.
You don’t have to attack us here now. They can attack us from any vulnerable offshore supply chain. Money and power are their “gods.”
Given the current visibility of Russia & Ukraine in the news, am surprised that I had to read this many comments before finding a reference to Holomodor. We’ve even got ‘Uncle Joe’ in the house, go figure.
The Soviet Story captures this important history perfectly, IMHO:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305871/
CAUTION: Some pretty rough visuals in the original film clips.
To make things worse. Who had his goons running around the country buying up large chunks of farmland?????
Mr. Josef Mengele Junior
Bill Gates!
Let that sink in…
He is also Mr. ” lets dim the SUN “
I wonder if Gates has his own choo choo train ala SnowPiercer.
If you thought illegal immigration was bad with 2 million/year crossing with Biden and Dems help and blessings, wait until the food scarcity hits.
Tens of millions will be streaming in. Free housing, medical, & gov bennies for all. And you and I get to pay for it all. And it will be our ‘fault’ for being so rascisssss.
Last paragraph. Sound advice.
If only our rulers didn’t love democracy so much.
Well at least now I understand why, Bill Gates bought up all that US Farmland…
We are the World…
Apologies if someone has already posted this tip:
Buy cracked corn at your local feed supply store like Tractor Supply
Buy a manual grain mill ( hand grinder) and grind the corn into corn meal.
So much cheaper than buying cornmeal.
And the cracked corn can be stored for years is stored correctly ( mylar bags with oxygen absorbers or just vacuum sealed in vacuum seal plastic bags)
Corn is GMO unless organic, or equivalent. All grains store decades longer if left whole, not cracked or rolled or milled.
had not thought about that…oh well.. guess this bag of cracked corn is going back…search is on for organic thx!
KEY ADVICE:
“Final thought… even if you are well prepared for the worst-case scenario, when they hand the ration cards or food/gas coupons, get in line with everyone else and use them – even if you don’t need them. Do not draw any attention to yourself. Do not behave any differently than anyone else. Even if it doesn’t suck for you, give the appearance that it does. Keep the eyes of a mouse and the ears of an elephant.”
There is something called “the gray man technique”. We will need to seek to blend in, and in times of food scarcity, looking fat and well fed puts one at a disadvantage. Wear bigger clothes, a little ragged even, put the jewelry and fancy watch or purse in the attic. Don’t carry wads of cash. Drive a beater if you have one. You get the idea. When people are hungry, they will target people who appear to be doing well. All those folks on BoobTube who are showing off their “prepper pantries” need to stop.
Last chance: Get out of the cities.
Just sayin’.
Godspeed y’all.
And if worst comes to worst, and you and your peeps are living in a rural one-room house with gardens and wood fires, you might be surprised to find you are joy-filled for the first time in your life.
Perhaps these evil “well meaning” powers will also have gasoline rationing also as a mechanism to lower gasoline prices.
.
It also provides them the added “benefit” beginning to control free movement of people.
.
Controlling movement is also a high priority for totalitarians.
.
Remember what one of the ladies from Hungary who spoke to the truckers said, “We did not have any liberties taken from us we just quit exercising them.”
Here is a little Canadian context…
https://torontosun.com/opinion/columnists/giesbrecht-trudeau-has-irreparably-damaged-our-country
Do ya want fly an airline that has a shortage of mechanics ?
Pass.
People have no idea the number of arable acres in the United States which can be brought into production with already existing and designed water-projects. Any water drought in the United States is an environmentalist politician drought.
Mismanagement of Americas water potential is no different than the mismanagement of our oil potential.
The Big Club has its eyes on The Great Lakes as an ” asset “.
I’ve seen your valuable comments on the farmland situation in other articles, thanks for the good info.
You probably don’t want to speak about specifics you’re privy to, in order to remain anonymous, but are there any good sites/resources that cover the farmland situation well? Thanks again.
I know there are ubiquitous crop and area specific farm magazines which have editorials and articles along with constant farmer interviews.
Also, I know this much, damn few if any “expert” farm posters on this website have ever read one page of one. Lol
Sundance does a good job of covering the government/ political/marketing side of Agriculture. Great information and overview as to how the cookie crumbles.
potable water is one of the things globalists see as a commodity…one that they deem will be in short supply the world over soon.
I have been hearing the water shortage story all my life. It is the same as the oil supply shortage. Libtard environmentalist creating man made droughts.
An example of just one; Do you realize less than 5% of the Columbia River is used for agriculture irrigation?
Columbia river flows 265,000 cubic feet per second at its mouth. That roughly equates to 525,000 acres one foot deep in one day.
Is that 5% of the Columbia River include the water the continues on into Mexico?
The Columbia River dumps into the Pacific Ocean at the
Washington/ Oregon border.
they have dumped BILLIONS of acre-feet of water (almost 326k gallons per) from the Sacramento watershed directly to the Pacific Ocean to supposedly protect a non-native Delta smelt…the remaining available water, SF gets priority over farmers….the US government gave these family enterprise farmers in the ’40s their assurance that the Corp of Engineers would maintain their water supplies in the N Central Valley….today many of those acres lie fallow and baked to a crisp in the sun where they once thrived with produce
I and my family going back Four generations has been farming in the Central Vally since the late 1800’s. It has been a water-fight of some kind since day-one.
I haven’t noticed any produce ground being laid-out yet. Within 100-mile radius 65% 0f all United States produced is grown right here. I’ll do some checking with some produce growers down at the coffee shop tomorrow.
I talked to my cousin who farms produce within the 100-mile radius which produces 65% of the Nations produce and 75% of the Nation’s nut production. He said the main issue is shortage of water.
Farmers will sacrifice growing fresh produce acres to have enough water to save their permanent planted nut trees. The number of acres planted to produce will be intensified for maximum per acre production…..Bottomline, water or I should say, “Lack of water” is the issue.
Meaning the reply go to Kroesus
all humor aside, heads should start rolling.
Find your group – start inventory of necessary skills – fill the gaps.
Our circle of trust is very small. Desperate times will have people doing desperate things.
should be very small but have skills like med, security, mechanical, food/water (garden,butcher, preservation) knowledge. also physical, mental, spiritual strength. Need to have small group, surviving as one is very difficult–gotta sleep sometime.
At this point the brainwashed, administrative, low info/low intel, & academics not likely to be useful
I am just waiting for people to call me up to fix their stuff as I have a knack for picking up technical skills. 🤷♂️
Dunno about finding formal employment but in a pinch I could find myself doing odd jobs as a regular MacGyver much like my father was.
Wonderful skills to barter!
The price of regular at the station where I usually buy my gas is up 70 cents over what it was yesterday, from $3.80 a gallon to $4.50 a gallon in one day.
May I make a suggestion?
GlobalGovernments Begin Warning of Critical Food ShortagesWhen you plant your summer garden this year plant extra summer squash. You can dehydrate it and then use a blender to grind it up. This then becomes flour. My wife used it for pancakes last year and the grandkids loved it. We didn’t tell them it was squash. TBH they were some of the best I have ever had as well.
Zuchinni, yellow squash makes no difference now you have a way to use all that surplus. I’m growing a ton again this year.
Please don’t worry, the guy with a 13% approval rating, Sen. Mitch McCucknnell, KY-Jelly, will ensure that he works on a Trillion Dollar Food Shortage Ballout with Sen. Crying Chuck, NY, where every citizen gets more cheese and a one time 250 dollar check to help with the pain….don’t ask where the rest of the 750 Billion is going to…..Ms Linsey has promised our enemies more Gender Programs he can contribute to.
There is no scum beneath which the demonic cabal will not sink.
Amen sister
This is why I bought an All American pressure canner from http://www.lehmans.com (arriving on Saturday). It’s why I have a water bath canner and an Excalibur dehydrator. It is why I just planted green beans, sugar snap peas, zucchini, lettuce and tomatoes in the last 2 days and will be starting more seeds tonight. The onions, shallots and garlic are growing well, too.
I’m happy I bought vermiculite and worm castings when I saw them because they are very scarce right now, at least in my area.
I see many posters here writing details about your “plans”. You all know the demons read here, right?
They know anyway because they know what we search, what we buy, and what we text and email.
Your mention of worm castings reminded me that I have an old book called “The Worms ate my Garbage.” I need to dig it out.
If you live near the praries the ground squirrels’ excrement is great fertilizer
The globalist masters have been at this for decades. They have just amped it up in the past 5 years. IMO, all of these issues have been meticulously planned out and war gamed using AI (Russia collusion, Trump impeachments, 2020 election steal, J6 insurrection hoax, global pandemic hoax, supply chain crash, manufactured energy crisis, Russia/Ukraine war, global food crisis, etc.). Trump coming down the escalator and subsequently winning an election and implementing viable America First policies threatened and disrupted their plans and required them to shorten their takeover timelines. Global chaos is their friend. Expect more of it. They are intent on destroying economies and redistributing wealth and power. Hopefully in their haste they will overreach and be defeated. Pray hard and often!
” Russia and Ukraine are not “breadbaskets to the world“; they are breadbaskets to Europe, parts of the middle east and parts of Asia (in the northern hemisphere). It is more accurate to say Russia and Ukraine are to Europe what the United States is to North America.”
After the Globalists attempted to crash the Russian economy and seize their personal assets, I suspect that Russia will become the breadbasket to China, their new financial partner, whom they turned to after the sanctions. It’s a match made in heaven to crush the dollar as the global currency.
The globalists have really messed up. China and Russia have land and armies and citizens. Globalists have corporations and not very smart compliant puppets. They survive on blackmail, bribes, kickbacks and corrupt lawmakers who steer billions into their coffers that they use to put their people in positions of influence …as opposed to real production. It seems stupid to me that they are poking the bear by stealing personal assets. They are making it personal. These countries play as rough as the globalists do. They will not likely cower to woke BS.
Plus it is all messed up. Our congress is made up of “lobbyists” who represent different power structures who pay them handsomely such as China (Feinstein, McConnel, Fang Fang boy), Islam (Obama, the squad), the various mobs (SF, Chicago, NY, LA, etc), Narcos, etc. So if China makes an alliance with Russia and away from the dollar, it will be interesting to see what tune Mitch and Biden will have to tap dance to. The Kerry, Clinton, and little Marcos will find that pleasing one master will bring the wrath of others. China and Russia don’t like Islam. It’s all different now.
Excellent! I like the way you think. But then there’s the nuclear wild card…. who knows?
So, once Russia takes Ukraine, they can either freeze or starve Europe.
We’ll worth the hour and a half investment of time to watch this. Being made in 2016, it sure puts in perspective everything from the phony impeachment. Seeing all the ugly faces of these scumbag politicians like McCain, Nuland, Kerry and f’ing Biden that were are part of this film still there reeking havoc…it’s just so infuriating. The fact that .000001% of the world’s population stir up all the trouble that the rest of us 99+% have to live with is enough to make your head explode 🤯. No doubt they were scared shitless when Trump won because all of their corrupt shenanigans would be exposed, like everything else he pulled the curtain back on.
Which film are you referring to?
Ukraine on Fire. Viva Frei brought it up on a live stream several days ago with Robert Barnes and was instantly demonitized and tagged for an 18+rating for the video by Boobtube. Viva was shocked why he was tagged at the time of the live stream but I knew right away it was because he brought up Ukraine on Fire.
YouTube is straight up evil quite frankly.
YT has now taken Ukraine on Fire down altogether for violating YT’s policy on graphic or violent content.
My bad, posted this on the wrong thread….should be on the Ukraine On Fire thread…