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.
When you stock up, make sure you have the extra, for lack of a better word, things that can give food flavor or are required by certain recipes. It will be different for everyone, but mine include chili sauce, ketchup, worcestershire sauce, relish, BBQ sauce, mustard, about 15 different spices (and fresh herbs in the garden) etc. or the ingredients to make them from scratch. Write out the recipes you have online as well to have a backup.
Buy your garden seeds early, there is going to be a run on veggie seed packets before the planting season begins. I have all my garden supplies now so I won’t be left out in the cold.
I bought heirloom varieties last year and saved several kinds. I also have some left over that I’ve been planting. I’m not sure where you live, but it’s already planting season here and my blueberry bushes are flowing and setting fruit. I’ll be bringing pots 6 due to mild freezing temps predicted but it’s been in the 70ies and 80ies for about 10 days now. Anything I can’t bring in will be protected.
I’m in North Florida. I just finished planting and good thing because it’s supposed to rain for the next week. God is good!
Sounds heavenly! In Colorado, it snowed again all day today, and it’s-6 outside right now.
We don’t generally plant until after mother’s day here Even tthen, I’ve lost o few crops to late snow in June. Makes me miss California, but not enough to return. 😉
Beef, chicken and vegetable bouillon are great for flavor.
Great reminder Lindy – I’ve been buying boullion for a while now and have a nice cache in my pantry.
I suggest buying some dehydrated potatoes (like Idahoan) and shelf-stable milk.
I like Better than Bullion … ready to use ….
I do too!!! That’s my choice!
Look instead at “soup base” from places like GFS or online. First ingredient is beef, chicken, or pork, rather than salt.
Read the ingredients. Some salt-based bouillon is packaged the same way (pint or quart jars/cups).
Goya has a powdered ham flavoring that’s pretty good when used with beans and pork, e.
Excellent advice. Add: Black pepper, hot sauce — easily bartered. Buy some of those airline bottles of liquor, too, for barter. Hard candy can be a treat. Dried fruits take a long time to soften in the mouth, and to chew, which creates the illusion of eating more.
I just tried to buy the sea salt grinder at COSTCO … and there was NONE. No salt whatsoever on the shelf! It was late in the day when I was shopping … but really? Oh well … forced a trip to Trader Joes
Definitely have salt on hand. No need to grind. Mortons Kosher or Celtic Grey Sea salt are on hand at all times here
Plant some jalapeno or other hot peppers. In many parts of the country they will come back year after year. If you’ve never cooked Mexican style, try it.
It’s remarkable how a sliced jalepeno put in a pot of pinto beans, cooked for awhile, will improve the taste of plain ol’ beans.
I have been saying the same for several months! Buy herbs, spices, seasonings, and ingredients to make sauces. If you can plant herbs, you will be happy that you can flavor your food when things get tough.
And herbs (dried out) can be used to make tea…
And ketchup mixed with hot water = tomato soup.
You can also make BBQ sauce if you have some ketchup.
We’re on a Sage kick. 🙂
Great idea. I’m going to do that this year with mint.
I always plant basil to eat with fresh tomatoes in August, and then it keeps growing into tall bushes with very strong-tasting leaves. I don’t make pesto anymore as I can’t eat pasta, but this year I collected all the basil leaves in September, chopped them up fine, put them in ice cube trays, poured olive oil over, and froze them. Now when I have a tomatoey recipe I can just drop a cube or two into the sauce, and it tastes just like fresh basil. So easy, and so much flavor!
There are great ideas on Pinterest and elsewhere as to how to REGROW food you’ve brought home from your grocery run. We’ve been doing this for almost a year now and it is remarkable. Leeks, green onions, celery, ginger. All of the herbs we use are indoors. I highly recommend Starwest Botanicals for spices in bulk (black pepper, etc.). Finally, for now, I keep all trimmings from carrots, onions, celery, shallots and so on in my freezer for a future soup. You can group them by soup type you like. We also started indoor composting (it helps if you have a cellar or other handy spot to do this). After doing these few things for a year, I am mortified at how much ‘good food’ I’ve needlessly discarded over time.
Ranvh dressing. You can eat CARDBOARD, if you put Ranch dressing on it.
But yeah, also because these are “processed foods” we have stocked up on all of these.
Bacon. Wrap Bacon on a rock and every guy will eat it.
Hey don’t leave out the ladies!!
My basic fall back for meals is beans. Beans and rice make a complete protein. Beans are cheap, keep forever, and over rice (especially if you have some kind of canned/frozen tomato) can make a great, filling meal. I have huge amounts of beans and rice on hand, and buy big jars of chili powder and cumin to flavor the beans with. Have many jars of these spices – without them the beans would be pretty boring!
Use cash when buying a lot of bulk items.
Why is literally no one on Right-side media even asking, let alone trying to find out, who is actually running the Executive Branch and the Oval Office? Good Lord. This situation is unreal.
Ya. Even Sundance hasn’t ventured there as far as I am aware.
Sundance has stated many times that this is the third term of Obama.
If you want to go deeper, then we all know where the trail ends.
Who is Biden meeting with or talking (listening) to every weekend when he goes to Delaware. They refuse to make his schedule public which in itself make me suspicious.
My theory is that the Senile Demented Vegetable is going to Delaware and Camp David in order to circumvent White House visitor logs.
I’ve just assumed that the “Senior Executive Service” (SES) and the 3 letter agencies have been running the Executive branch for a long while. Probably since Jimmy Carter at least.
BTW … shortages and rationing are part of the Green New Deal plan. After all, Obama said that it’s time for all Americans to get off our high horse. Who do we think we are that we can be the fattest nation on earth (sic) while half the globe is starving? These ghouls in the WH … WANT … you to face food shortages, gas shortages, water shortages, all basic services shortages. Then, and only then, can we live “light on the planet” … “reduce our footprints” … and live like the noble native BIPOC’s … who were “at one with nature”. Oh sure … their lifespans clocked in at about 33.5 years … but they were at one with Gaia …
This is a FEATURE … not a bug.
Are you talking about the brain-dead ex POTUS POS who had 4 deserts cooked every night (pies) and smokes 40 cigarettes a day?
It’s always time for pie! However … until all the people of the world have THEIR slice of the pie … Americans can damn well STARVE! That’s what your superiors on the Left believe. Oh! But of course the leftist elites are exempted.
Spot. On.
Deep alternative, right-side media IS discussing this. I posted this here several months ago but was immediately denounced by someone who gave ZERO basis for their denouncement. These ideas are profound, and I have developed profound respect for the young man from North Dakota (a genius like Sundance) who is the author. He has dug DEEP into the Federal Register, analyzes EO’s signed by Trump that NOBODY ELSE is talking about, and correlates this all with a plethora of other evidence. His work is based 100% on public source information, and he has NOT read the “queue” material (although people are pressuring him to). He appears in several regular podcasts and is amazing. If you are interested, then take a deep breath and start here (but take out the spaces from the URL and replace the dot):
d evol ution dot link
Very few even talk any more about how Biden stole the election, his is now referred to as President Biden by every one in the whole wide world as if he is totally legal.
There are a few sites that report on the ongoing attempts to sort out some of the illegalities of the 2020 election the the procedure to fix this is so very slow.
No one even calls out the fraudulent President Biden any more, he is now considered legal and solid every where in the world.
80 million ballots does not equal 80 million votes.
I’M saying it every chance I get!
Not in our house!
And did anyone else read about the TX elections commissioner resigning after thousands of uncounted ballots were found? How do you lose thousands of ballots during an election?
We asked in a political forum here… the Congress person of our state indicated it was Ron Klain running the show. Interesting… he was born in Indiana too. Seems Hoosierland has a propensity for breeding these horrible creatures.
Rationing food will not really be about getting food to those that don’t have it. It is about control and “fairness”.
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People who have fruit trees on their yard will have fruit commandeered and sent to a warehouse so it can rot.
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County jurisdictions where there are honest Sheriffs and deputies will fare better than city folk.
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If you live in a County where the mask “mandate” was not enforced, you might be ok.
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Be careful who is elected in local elections, it makes a big difference.
The USA is going to have plenty of food. It’s just going to double or triple in cost. It’s the poor countries that won’t have food. The African Harvest is already projected at 100 million tons down. And, next year’s harvest will be worse.
If you have your pet on premium dog or cat food, you must understand that you will be taking food out of some person’s mouth.
Living in a rebel county.
To make matters worse, we now have Fitch and Moodys going around proclaiming the ‘junk’ status of Russian assets. Forgive me if I guffaw, but these are the same two corrupt organizations that years ago granted mortgage backed security bonds AAA ratings even though they were filled with absolute garbage.
And give AAA rating to US debt when the FED had to ‘buy’ $ 9 trillion of bonds to fund crazy spending programs. Most of which went to fraud and donors to political campaigns.
I haven’t been here as much. I’m in the planning stages for sourcing my own food supply. Food production methods which I had never considered are now my reading material. I’ve been in planning/implementing stages to become as food independent as possible. My husband probably thinks I’ve gone hardcore prepper but I’ll be more comfortable being less dependent.
Chances are I am years from achieving it purely in the learning curve but at least I’m into the learning curve. I would suggest all those that can do the same.
To sum it up, the harder my government or world officials push scenarios to make me dependent on them, the harder I will be working to enjoy a life in which I DO NOT depend on them.
I’m living Newton’s Third Law of Motion, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. The harder they push, the harder I resist.
Keep pushing. We are doing everything we can to stay under or off the government’s radar. Not easy as we are seniors and as with the Covid Extermination Squad, we are the targets for elimination.
Yep, seniors are expendable to this regime. Gardening in a zone half what my previous one was is one of my challenges but I’m going to make it happen.
I’m finding many local gardening facebook groups with invaluable information. Search for them based on your location.
Thank you, MAJA. I’m afraid Facebook was one of the first things I gave up after the results of the past presidential election.
I’m reaching out to my neighbors for recommendations and I’ve got one I can source manure from. Who knew I could be so thrilled about horse doody? lol
I’ll be experimenting with hydroponics in our basement. I’m finding some excellent info online from reliable sources. It seems a lot of the big company names that work with organic farmers are also supporting startups doing hydroponics which has been a boon on the information front.
Find information about sterilizing the weed seeds in the manure otherwise you’ll have a hardy crop of weeds to go along with anything else you have planted.
I’m starting my hydroponics garden in an empty spare bedroom. Look into the Kratky method if you haven’t already. It’s simple and not as expensive as the other methods. Stock up on the fertilizer. It’s super expensive and will probably be more so soon but a little goes a long way.
Kratky Method:
Thanks Sue, that is precisely the one I’ll be starting on and trying out some lettuces.
I figure a smaller tub and I can use a few to produce enough lettuce, herbs, spinach, pak choi and chard to really make a difference.
Everything I’m seeing says they do best when you let each tub do one thing and not mix them. That is easy enough and certainly cheap enough.
I trench leaves in the autumn. Dig a patch back fill with all the leaves, and then cover back with the soil. Makes nice rich draining dirt. I get annoyed when I see leaf blowers and black bags!
We’ve got a good spread here and don’t bag much. We have been known to burn but we’ve got loads of black walnut trees. They’re everywhere.
I’m glad I discovered that they can be composted but should be given a year or they compromise veggie production.
I’ve been busy bagging up plant trimmings and saving “safe” smaller logs. The raised beds will be my attempt at Hugelkultur. That is a fancy word for what most folks that have been gardening and understand is a healthy way to deal with veggie beds, lol.
I wish to heck I had been around my German grandfather more when he had his big vegetable gardens.
And how much money does your husband think Ok to kiss goodbye each year for insurance ? Your wise prepping is simply insurance, and of a kind that is also like a savings account.
We just have a different approach. He’s one of those guys that can do anything he puts his mind to and it comes naturally. I’m the planner and organizer.
When he doesn’t get a certain veggie he likes, he’ll be out there supplementing my work thus far. 😉
If you haven’t yet, read up on “aquaponics”; it yield both produce and fish, and addresses the issues with fertiliser, as the fish fertilise the plants, and the plants clean the water, for the fish.
Added advantage, you can grow the plants at waist level, so no bending and stooping.
And, it can be infinitely scalable, from a small desktop model, growing a couple of fish and some herbs, on up to apt. balcony to home back yard.
I’m not going to go into a lot of details but that is the one I am furthest on so far. It’s a perfect fit for us and I don’t have to do it in the basement.
My outside beds will be raised comfortably since I’m not the spry 20yo I was decades ago. Those go in starting next week, weather permitting. We might get snow in a couple of days.
Fish is good for the protein in your diet.
Growing vegetables in your garden is great but is only part of your diet.
If you don not have the space for chickens, goats etc. the idea of trying to produce fish in aquaponics might be something to try.
I hear you…..
I have my grandmother’s cookbooks…she was a young woman , wife and mother through ww1, ww2, the depression…..so my thought was to go through those recipes….
My grandparents were middle class…lived simply, enjoyed their lives….
That is where I am finding solace…in what she taught me as a young mother…her home ‘tricks’, her simplicity….
Oh and…my mother was a depression baby…they were poor…i dont think she ever got over it even when she rose toward the top 3%….so there are her cost saving ‘tricks’ as well that I began utilizing in earnest 12 months ago…
My botttom line advice..
Live. Simply.
As simply as you can……
Oh…and pray for Deliverance😊😊😊
I have an old “cookbook” of the recipes of one of my Great-Grandmothers (she was born in 1865) . . . Great-Uncle Bob sat down and in his beautiful handwriting wrote down all of Grandmother’s recipes in a spiral notebook . . .
the temperature instructions whether baking a cake, biscuits, meringue shells or cooking a beautiful pork roast were basically based on how much wood you put in the fire – temperatures were noted as a “slow oven” or a sometimes a “fast oven” – there were not any “temperature dials”!
My grandmother used a wood fired oven when she was young. She told me it was hot enough to bake bread when a piece of newspaper placed on the rack turned slightly brown,
I like that;
Live. Simply.
AND;
Simply LIVE.
PRAISE GOD!
Another fun, light and funny update here in the dying empire of lies. lol
Did I miss the mention of the hundreds of tons of milk and cheese products in the USA being stored in caves in Missouri?
Fancy a shopping trip?
The world needs another Norman Borlaug. Ironic how many people know about Paul Ehrlich but few know of Norman Borlaug.
Borlaug was a short term benefit, long term disaster pushing monoculture that wears out the land…Mass starvation coming..
Is that you, Paul?
Dwarf wheat, I know.
Aquaponics, I tell ya.
Last autumn I stocked up on about $2,000 worth of ALL KINDS OF FOODSTUFFS from MyPatriotSupply.com and I’m so glad I did because I have 7 grandkids and their parents who will also be glad, even though they (the adults) made fun of me at the time. My son’s generation never think for themselves and they certainly don’t plan ahead for anything other than when they can contact some person they don’t even KNOW on their stupid finger-sliding phones and play some game. It’s embarrassing to say that people in their mid-30’s are “playing games” when they have 7 children to raise. Luckily, my son has a good job, but still . . . (my DH passed away a year ago so I feel close to my son even if he acts like a ninny about gaming). 😉
All the foodstuffs are pretty tasty (of the things I’ve tried just to test it out) although I can’t say much for the mashed potatoes which are one of my favorite “comfort” foods.
I also ordered a whole bunch of meat from a local butcher shop (they’re the BEST) and it’s in my freezer right now. I will have to dig out the big “thermos/cooler/beer chest” if the weather is hot when we need this food, but I feel better knowing that we have it. There’s enough food there, in toto, for 10 people to survive for at least 2 months, if prudent.
I also ordered a huge graniteware coffee pot (who can live without coffee??!!) and a BUNCH of aluminum wrapped bags of coffee. We live about 1 1/2 miles away from a rushing stream so water should be the least of our worries, but I also ordered water purifiers (from Cabela’s). We have sleeping bags and tons of extra blankets (nights get cold around here even in the summer) and also those blow-up pillows which can be used as floating devices. They’re pretty cool !
I may not have thought of everything we might need (like toilet paper!) but I have a lot of extra TP and Kleenex boxes right now, don’t know how long they’ll last however. I think paper products are going to be VERY difficult to come by even in the coming weeks, to be honest. May have to learn to use leaves . . .
I have also ordered and stashed in a safe place but NOT a bank, a whole bunch of gold and silver and junk silver from MoneyMetals.com . Those purchases could come in real handy anytime, hopefully later rather than sooner. Or hopefully not at all, best case scenario.
Prepare now, you can always use the extra food (shelf life of 5+ years) and pure metals always will be valuable and useful, no question about it. Think ahead and stay safe.
You are the guardian angel of your family1
A tip: If there is an extended power outage you can save the meat in your freezer by having a pressure canner and some boxes of empty canning jars. A simple propane burner (the type you would use for an outdoor corn boil) will work fine to heat the canner. And propane keeps indefinitely.
I suggest in stead of, or addition to “metals” like gold and silver, invest in AMMO.
GOLD is for carrying your wealth THRU hard times, and out the other side.
You really don’t want to be using Gold to buy a can of peaches.
A 12g shotgun shell, 10 .38 or 25 .22’s, on the other hand,..?
Very true Dutchman.
Also booze can be traded.
We have a lot of those air line sized ( one serve size) bottles of liquor that you can by liquor stores.
We have also have bigger ones but do not want to trade a whole bottle of wine for a couple cans of peaches so to speak.
Also if possible it does not hurt to split up your storage items in case the neighbors get greedy and try to take it.
This is such a sad thing to have to think about, but stash your stuff in several different places so if times do get bad and some come to wipe your storage out they do not get every thing you have.
Why sell a bullet to someone who could use it and take the food back?
Bingo. No sense having a food supply if you can’t defend it.
I have tried Patriots supply food and don’t like it. Its actually cheaper to buy what you enjoy and vac seal in mylar with oxygen absorbers. I got 25 pound Idahoan mash from Walmart for $25 and vac sealed. 350 servings.
” You’ll eat bugs and lab grown meat , and you’ll ( barf ) be ‘happy’ ?”
Lab grown ? …… is that a nice way to say Soylent Green ?
Georgia Guidestones , Elberton Georgia , USA – The first of 10 unholy commands.
” Keep Humanity under 500 million , in perpetual balance with nature “
Unfortunately, a lot of the food we produce is not healthy. I try to stick to buying organic as much as possible and eggs, butter & meat that is grass fed.
That will disappear when calories are in short supply…
True pyrrhuis.
People get hungry enough they will eat almost anything.
Even bugs, I have seen this in the middle east.
That is why I bought an enormous amount of 25 year food in cans. It is the best of that type of food but is not as healthy as what I eat now. I don’t care if that is all I’ll be able to eat. Some people thought I was crazy but, looking back, I am glad I bought that food.
And how much does cost?
compared to the alternative.
Goodfor you Annie, that you can afford organics.
Most everybody else can’t.
Not crapping on you for going that route,
but a lot of us don’t even have that option.
I haven’t bought meat, except for ground beef, in 3 months.
Since Covid started I tested that, haven’t consumed fresh red meat of any sort since about March 2020. It’s a hard item to include in the diet on five bucks a day for food. Once in awhile I miss it but nutrition can come from a lot of sources. God blessed us with being omnivores.
Ironic most of my over six decades was spent living and working in the prime agricultural and meat/poultry producing areas of California, seeing/working around all sides of that industry.
I’ve cut red meat out as well. every once in a while I’ll have some pork tenderloin or good quality ground beef…but not often. I primarily eat organic chicken, organic ground turkey, steelhead, salmon, and cornish game hens. I split the hens in half and eat one half for dinner one night and have the other half the following night. Economic.
No such thing as organic. Rain and air have chemicals.
Organic means producing food without using chemical fertilizers or pesticides, etc.
I seldom eat in a restaurant. I cook my own food and there are a lot of things one can cook that cost very little.
talking about staying alive,not just healthy.first thing in my stockpile is crunchy p nut butter.
Peanut butter can be a life saver. Good ratio of fat to protein. Without fat you quickly suffer malnutrition.
Another good thing to do is mix one teaspoon sugar, one teaspoon iodized salt in a gallon of water and drink a 8 ounce glass each day to balance electrolytes and prevent stomach bugs/dysentery/diarrhea etc
100% pure apple juice will also pull radiation out of the body and can just be peed away!
this is my problem. .I eat super healthy, no processed foods, not much carbs and organic meat. As a prepper it’s hard for me to buy prep food that I wouldn’t normally eat, because if I dont end up eating it for SHTF I wont rotate it to eat..guess if I’m starving I’d eat Kraft macaroni and cheese..
You better believe there’s a need for panic. The USA is a “net food exporter” only as long as Brandon allows it to be, and believe me, he’s just itching to starve everybody in the country who’s below “elite” level riches in order to make us all beg for a complete govt takeover of food production and distribution. Stock up now while everything is just expensive, before it becomes literally unaffordable.
The purge is coming, and I believe they will burn Hollywood if they are hungry.
Nice to know when I am starving to death the air will be fresh and clean.
It’s good to see you have your priorities straight.
Unless you live on the west Coast and there’s a wind blowing over fr/ China.
Yep it’ll be clean if CARB has to kill agriculture in the state to make it that way.
My running joke for years was hey let’s take scarce water and fill up tanker trucks to spray it on the dry avenues and shoulders for dust control. Brilliant. /s
Working in the CA ag industry for decades I could tell all kinds of bizarre environmental stories. God bless those who play that game. It truly is a gift. I practically went insane. Sarcasm helped stave off madness. 😀
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.
Interesting last paragraph. Makes me wonder what Sundance fears–or possibly knows that he’s not telling.
these types pf crises always happen slow than fast…overnight. We are hurtling down the steepest incline now….as Sundance says this is for real and for keeps. Plan accordingly, all the stored rations do little good when you are loaded and sent to the camps.
I for one will not go willingly to those camps.
I thought at the time during the (pandemic) the lines outside the stores, Cosco and Trader Joe’s specifically, along with the rationing of paper goods was a test to see what we would tolerate and how far they could push us.
We were so compliant.
Now, lines will come again but be much worse. The government will be giving our food to other nations
while we comply.
we will live to regret our compliance…
I think he is leaning towards the mindset & behavior of, “Be the Grey Man/Woman”.
For those who are not familiar with the “Grey Person” mindset & behavior.
It means to not make yourself stick out from others by your appearance or your behavior(s)/doings.
Blend in to the surroundings & the group you are around. Think about what you are doing or look like to others before you do things.
Not unlike an example of, if you have a stash of food set aside, don’t be the only person looking like you are getting more food than everyone else, while surrounded by a lot of skinny neighbors that don’t have much for food. It tells them that you have something they want. Food.
Same as with a lot of things you might do.
Another example is if you have lights on & a generator running when every one else doesn’t have electricity or fuel to run a generator, it will be noticed. Folks might just “covet” your stuff, and may not be interested in your getting compensated for their taking Your stuff.
One needs to take into consideration what others might think or do to the one who is “better off” than they are.
There are other things like the above to consider to help be a “Grey Person” & not stick out, but I will leave them for another time. 🙂
Use common sense, & one more thing that can be helpful…
Have a little bit of extra things set aside for your neighbors so that if you see them needing something extra you might have, rather than save it for barter with others( although you can barter with the neighbors too), it might be a good decent gesture to give them the extra IF they are needful.
A little gift can go a Loong way in hard times.
Don’t over do it, but just enough to keep the peace in the neighborhood. The dividends of such gestures can be handy in the future. 😉
(Note- if you go overboard with your gestures, there is the possibility that the “coveting” situation comes back in to play if you seem too generous. Sometimes it is better to offer a trade than to outright give. It can also help others keep some respect if done around others so they don’t feel like they are getting “charity”. Just be careful how ya handle things.)
Good Luck & God bless ya’ll~!
Yes… Gray Man is exactly what I’m thinking:
First rule of prepping: don’t tell people you’re a prepper.
as a commercial fisherman I know says “it is when the whale surfaces that it get harpooned.”
It’s like the German U-Boat captain in the Alfred Hitchcock movie “Lifeboat” who wound up in the lifeboat of the survivors from the ship he had just sent to the bottom.
The captain was hiding water from his saviors and when then found him out, because he was sweating in the heat and the others were not, they wanted to kill him by throwing him overboard.
I think they did wind up killing him by beating him to death.
GREAT movie with all of the usual Hitchcock twists and turns and cinematography were excellent and poignant.
Great advice and wanted to highlight this since so many friends/colleagues/neighbors have jumped on the generator bandwagon…
“Another example is if you have lights on & a generator running when every one else doesn’t have electricity or fuel to run a generator, it will be noticed.”
I lived in the country, had a machine shop there and a big genset to run the machines and house, thought I was the bees knees to have the only house with lights on at night with that big diesel humming away in the shop.
After the ’96 blackout I changed my mind and started seeing it more as ‘target’. A few years later sold everything off and now, in retirement, have gone old tech like my mom’s family did on the ranch before it got electricity in the 20’s.
Grey man is right. Old, poor, not too smart. Quietly coordinate with like-minded people. Otherwise, silence sandwich. Beware of smiling strangers.
He’s laid it out elsewhere. If the Left knows you have it, they will try to confiscate your stores to give out to their cronies. All your work then goes to feed the elites. So keep your head down and act like you’re just as hungry as everyone else so you remain strong enough to act when able to.
I have another solution to consider… when the food runs out, we eat the Biden voters first.
We haven’t played cowboys and democrats yet.
I think Sundance in his infinite wisdom knows that if you act like you don’t need it, then others who do need it around you will notice and might decide to pay you a visit (with friends) and see what you got that they may like to have or report you to the “proper authorities out of jealousy. Kind of like the drug dealer next door that drives a Mercedes but never goes to work and has no visible means of support to the neighbors that pay attention. Human nature.
Do not forget to obtain the means of protecting yourself, family, food and supplies. Guns, ammo and archery will be your only hope and will be non-existent or in very short supply very soon.
Think your way through thinks.
There are a lot of booby traps that can be set to protect yourself and your property that will not waste your precious ammo.
What, you aren’t redeeming your food stamp rations? Why is that comrade???
Oh you have food already?
It’s about EQUITY comrade! Why should you, who planned ahead for the food crisis, be able to eat, when those who did not plan ahead are hungry!
Don’t be selfish!. We are all in this together! Together will get through these hard times! You don’t think you are more important than anyone else do you???? Are you an antivaxxer, as well?
EQUITY demands that we confiscate your stored food, fruit tree harvest and garden produce and the party will distribute it for the greater good.
This is exactly why I ordered (in my vaxxed hubby’s name) those dumb made in China home testing kits thru the USPS. I was worried about my postman seeing who did and didn’t receive them in blue Franklin County.
it’s called being a grey man…
edit…oops just say the similar comment below
i read it twice and rotated it to blend in with others
Always beware your neighbor.
You have to know what hunger is to fully understand that. I was abused quite severely as a kid, and hunger and sleep deprivation was part of their game. Let me tell you. Eating the scabs off your own legs and arms becomes easy.
Right:
There are no words to express my sadness at the horrors you endured as a child. I am glad you were able to survive and thrive as an adult.
“The U.S. is blessed with a food production and capacity industry that leads the world.”
Yes, but not particularly efficient agriculture. The US needs tariffs to bar more efficient Australian agribusiness production because it can’t compete. Australia has the same cost base/ wage base for inputs as the US…..and pays more for fuel.
“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.“
so sad the regime’s is going to export all our food to the highest bidder. The next regime crisis planned is coming soon….to starve all the Americans!
How do we stop this from happening? Create a national security policy to protect our food supply? That idea would most likely never happen and if it did it wouldn’t be enforced by this current regime. The regime is going to sell our supply to the highest bidders as usual.
Our esteemed installed government will pass some fraud filled food security ‘package’ for a few hundred billion. Probably stuff pieces of cheese in excess crack pipes.
Does anyone know what range your social credit score has to be in to get a bread and soup ration?
I believe you just lost a hundred points for asking that. We’ve all lost at least 500 – 1000 for reading this.
“No soup for you!, next!”
This is just my own personal assessment of things from Western Wisconsin. BEFORE the Russian blame game, there were predictions of food shortages. Hubby and I stocked up on seeds and supplies to plant our own garden almost two months ago. Fast forward to today. Many of the seed displays are picked clean, unless you want to plant flowers or kolarabi. We plan to share our bounty with family and friends. Unfortunately, our growing season is short due to the cold temps, but we have already started our seedlings to get a head start on the growing season.
Plan your garden carefully. Include a good percentage of space for foods that can be preserved (freezing, canning, drying) or store well (potatoes, garlic, carrots). If you have enough land, plant more than you need so you can assist less fortunate neighbors. If you know a farmer, see if he will give you some cow, horse or goat manure. Good substitute for expensive fertilizer.
Happy gardening!
We have almost 25 acres, and plan to have the biggest garden we have ever had. We are stocked up on canning supplies, and while we certainly take nothing for granted, think that we will be able to sustain ourselves for a while.
Super! You get it! The feeling of independence you achieve from this is a real self confidence builder
What about small livestock for you protein need?
Can you have chickens, goats and rabbits.
Chickens are good because they provide eggs as well as meat.
Goats give milk and rabbits make cute pets but are also good to eat.
They will all eat the scraps from your table and little will go to waste.
Good thing about WI. is basements.
Great place to store root crops, etc.
Also great place to grow excess produce in spare space with grow lights… Neighbors can’t see the crop there, so it’s less tempting. Just saying
Want to see normally docile & passive US citizens become enraged monsters?
Go ahead and take away their Coca-Cola, double stuffed Oreos, cheeseburgers, french fries, etc and see what happens.
I promise you this… it will not be pretty.
Grocery shopping will become Black Friday!
What if cigarettes are doubled in price, and scarce?
We lived through Katrina and the aftermath.
Have seen a sample of societal breakdown…it ain’t pretty.
I personally never saw the draw of coffee, but I know plenty of people who are exactly like you said without their morning Java. That’s why I have been stocking up on small jars of instant coffee to trade with or sell/gift.
We have had several SSI/welfare families living in our rental house . They all went around to the food banks and bummed for free food . They all were fat . And lazy . When they moved we had to throw out tons of wasted food .
Rise up.
Please pray for President Trump.
First have heard of this event from 4 days ago.
THIS JUST IN from Politico:
“President Donald Trump’s plane made an emergency landing on Saturday evening following his speech at a RNC-hosted donor retreat in New Orleans, according to two people familiar with the matter. The JET was in the air for between 20 and 30 minutes before one of the engines failed and the pilot of the private plane decided to turn around and return to the New Orleans airport, one of the sources said.
The plane was en route to Palm Beach, Fla., where President Trump resides at his Mar-a-Lago estate. Audio of the communications between the pilot and the air traffic control tower revealed that the landing was described as “emergency in nature” according to the source who had been briefed on the recording. Once the plane was on the ground, the RNC scrambled, reached out to a donor and found the former president another plane. He eventually landed in Palm Beach around 3 a.m. Sunday.”
President Trump should still be travelling around in THIS.
I just saw this about an hour before I read your post, and felt absolutely sick. I pray for President Trump, his family, and patriots supporting America and her values.
As expressed by someone on another website, “If they manage to remove our king from the chess board, we’ll flip the whole damm table on them.”
How about sooner…b4 we lose those who are valuable to our well being
Sounds quite unusual.
I was under the impression that President Trump was a stickler for staying on top of the routine maintenance for his private aircraft.
Never mind using top quality Rolls-Royce engines.
🤔
Would take a good look at the location there in blue New Orleans
where the aircraft was serviced prior to takeoff Saturday night.
Cannot say if that had anything to do with a recent service, but I would hope he has someone working on getting to the bottom of it just in case.
He wasn’t in his plane. A GOP donor lent him the plane to get to the Republican meeting in New Orleans.
Thank you for posting this. I might not have known about it if not for you. Praying for President Trump and treepers everywhere.
FDR had food rationing and farmers were dictated to when it came to selling their products. I noticed shreds of black cioth hanging from the windows in a old abandoned horse barn and I asked why that was. My uncle told me it was so people driving by at night could not see that they were working in the barn. They were slaughtering cattle and pack the sides of beef in a load of fire wood that was being delivered to a local grocery store. When the wood was delivered and unloaded so was the beef. The store would pay for a very expensive load of fire wood. It was illegal under the FDR regime to do this because of Government controls, but the people in town always had beef. Beware we have been down this road before.
Very true mike>.
There always has been and always will be a huge black market during times like this.
We have indeed been down this road before and it never works out for the feds.
An even bigger shortage than a future food shortage is the current IQ shortage in the US Government. Since Trump left office, it has dropped at least 50 points.
A change of diet might be just what the doctor ordered.
Note the lean fit looking Chinese army vs the overweight US military. Many kids think muscles maketh the man. Wrong, Hollywood muscles means bad endurance on the hill.
Haves and have nots.
Food will be available , at a premium cost. The average worker will be decimated, they WILL eat and skip the rent payment for a while , then they are homeless, or they have to sell the old car and walk.
The ‘ food insecurity ‘ factor and all that goes with it is now on your radar.
Remember how well Prohibition worked out for the Feds.
Booze was almost running down every street in America.
Literaly.
The Feds were running around like chickens with their heads cut off trying to shut down the underground bars and strip joints which were running night and day and making more money than they do now.
The government had to give up on that one.
Down south the fed kept trying to tax the home made booze stills and those in the deep deep south ran circles around the chuckheads from the federal governmnet who were trying to find the illegal stills making “white lightning”.
No matter how hard the government tries humans just do not cower in fear, we fight back and we fight back hard.
We use to joke about it being The Human Law of Thermodynamics , in any general system you push people and they push back.
Maybe we could have done without the half billion ‘free’ N95 masks and covid tests.
Yes, priorities. Ours are being determined by nimbicles.
https://thediplomad.blogspot.com/2022/03/on-ukraine-what-now.html
The waxen rutabaga who claims to hold the Presidency of the United States has announced we will ban from our shores all Russian energy imports. For how long? Who knows? How this will hurt Russia is not clear as the PRC, India, and Turkey have made known they will buy all the oil the Russians can bring to market.
He, of course, could provide no explanation as to how the shortfall in US oil supplies would get covered (except higher prices). Oh wait. We are talking to Iran and Venezuela! Yes! An extra piece of pie for the dope who drew up that strategy.
He lied about US oil companies refusing to exercise their rights on over 9,000 granted “drilling” permits–they are not that, at all. He lied about the actions of his clown car administration having had no negative effect on US oil and gas production. His rich buds defended him by accusing those of us who don’t want to pay $6, $7, $8 a gallon of gasoline of being whiners, unpatriotic creeps who cannot empathize with the suffering of the Ukrainian people.
Biden is clearly not leading NATO much less the rest of the world on the crisis in Ukraine.
One small example should suffice: the Polish MiGs. We have gone back and forth IN PUBLIC on whether to provide Ukraine some older MiGs now in the Polish air force. The Poles had said “yes,” but the US had said “no,” and sent the NATO SecGen to Warsaw to talk the Poles out of it. Then our absurd SecState Blinken goes on TV and declares that the USA has given the “green light” to Poland to provide the MiGs. It seems the Poles found out about that along with the rest of us by watching TV.
So they called our bluff: the Poles announced that they would send the MiGs to the US base at Ramstein, Germany, turn over the planes to the care of the US, and the US could then provide them to Ukraine, or not. Now Washington is crying that we did not know about the Polish decision. Three ring circus clowns should not play poker or chess with the Poles.
Do, dear friends, please note: the Russians are now busy taking out all the airports in Ukraine. I guess they watch TV, too.
The war drums keep beating, and the drummers are the idiots who won’t end up fighting the war.
Just a tip. Seed packets are often sold in places like hobby stores, dollar+ stores, convenience stores, overstock stores, groceries etc. Seeds and started plants are sold on etsy and ebay. If you live in a city, but have a car, spend some fuel money to get out to the country nurseries which open up soon as the wx warms.
Almost everybody, kids included, can garden on a small to medium scale, and you really should try it! Now.
Kids can learn a lot -and have a ton of fun!- planting that seed in a tiny pot, caring for it, transplanting to the garden, and watching it grow thru all the stages til>>> Voila! Tomato!
AND>>> if you’re *really* smart<<<< you’ll teach them how much fun it is to WEED. (!). We actually did that when we were kids- joyfully- cuz my mother was a smart one!
Add one more; Bill Gates and the Chinese have been buying up farmland in OK, TX and Kansas. The Chinese have put up “grow houses” for growing marijuana and processing CBD oil. It has been nearly impossible to locate small tracts of land that is affordable in OK.
I have been looking for 5 acres or less, and prices have been out of reach for the last 2 years. We would grow fruits and vegetables if we had the space. As it is, I am now doing “container” and raised bed gardens to supplement our groceries.
We understand, Joyce. Between “grow” farms (for the children, you know) and poultry farms, land is crazy expensive in Oklahoma . We’re also searching for land, praying to find some before TSHTF.
b-uilding….b-ack….b-etter……
and the wef crowd won’t miss a meal…..
and could give a crap about us.
Last paragraph and last sentence. These are key.
Just as they argue that “we Americans should suffer hardship (higher gas prices) cause of “those poor Ukranians”, they will argue that we should suffer food shortages and deprivation, cause of “equity” and “white priviledge” and “Americas history of Colonialism and hegenomy” and unlike other countries that have already cut off all exports of FOOD, in order to reserve it for THEIR people, our Government will ship “OUR food” (food produced IN the U.S.) to ‘poor countries’ and decry “Nationalism” and any who advocate otherwise will be deplatformed, denigrated, cancelled and accused of all manner of horrible things.
And yes, warning to preppers/survivalists, you will be called “Horders” and “Black marketers” although even now they are debating a politically correct alternative term, cause rasssccciiist!
And the Government will justify confiscating your stockpiled and homegrown food, and jailing you.
STOCK UP NOW! BASF Ludwigshafen is shutting down! They make every chemical you could possible need, or is used in EVERYTHING! From food, to pet food, to petroleum based products, fertilizer, herbicide etc etc.
Look at the size of it!
https://www.basf.com/global/en/who-we-are/organization/locations/europe/german-sites/ludwigshafen.html
No COVID-19 shot ? / No entry / No Travel / No Job
No mark-of-the-beast ? / No Food purchase
We were tested , many failed.
Here’s how you travel: assume another identity. Pay a relative/friend cash to use their credit card and automobile. Or travel with people, paying them in cash while they use their credit card.
The Hit’s keep on coming!
February’s consumer price index is the last important look at inflation before Federal Reserve officials meet next week, and it’s going to be a scorcher.
https://www.cnbc.com/2022/03/09/consumer-inflation-was-likely-high-in-february-and-rising-fuel-prices-will-turn-up-the-pressure.html
We also have more than enough oil and gas to supply our needs, and look what FJB did to that! 😲
We were once a net oil exporter, too.
Stock up deep, and have a deeper plan, too.
Get hold of a few Amish cookbooks.
Also vintage cookbooks.
Or adopt a senior who is a great cook – and remembers how to cook.
My dear Mom is one of the best cooks I have ever known – now she will be 94 this year and she still knows how to cook of course but she runs out of steam and so she is the “executive chef” and I am the “sous chef” . . . Mom’s mom was also a marvelous cook and even though in her later 90’s (she passed away at almost 100), she liked to cook and I could bring her over in the wheelchair to the electric skillet to have her show me how to fry nice little pork chops or chicken or cutlets and make gravy, too – then her mother (my great-grandmother) was an excellent cook and kept chickens, too (in Pasadena, California – about 60, usually) – and she was also a wonderful maker of pies (that’s how she met my great-grandfather)
the thing is, all three generations demonstrated to me what was REALLY great cooking – taking something fairly inexpensive and pounding it, cubing it, seasoning, marinating, whatever it took and you would have the most succulent, wonderful dinner! I mean, sure, it’s good if you can afford prime or choice ribeye steak and things like that but when you have to stretch the old dollars and cents, it’s pretty good to make it all taste like a million dollars!
Found in the bin… 🙁
A pressure cooker helps a LOT in that regard!
Yep! It took 12 minutes to cook a spaghetti squash in the pressure cooker….probably could’ve done it in 10.
Im just not going to participate. Throw sand, love your kids and be happy, it annoys the left. Listen to music, have a cocktail, chill. It’s just where I am at. I refuse to be whipsawed by an illegitimate installed dementia patient and a whole passel of weasely beuracrats. So there.. .. go forth be happy and prosper.. try it tomorrow. I’m
very good advice!
and think of it, Dr. Jill probably doesn’t even know how to cook or make a decent Manhattan!
I’m still shopping for food and will continue to as long as there are things to buy at not too high a price – as I run out of what I’m currently using – not to change any patterns. I’m still able to buy some US produce that hasn’t risen a lot – things like broccoli, brussels sprouts, and cabbage coming in now from Florida. I look for dry or slightly wilted broccoli and cabbage at the back that hasn’t been water sprayed 3 times an hour because it is a bargain by weight. Can always plump it up in water if I want to.
I don’t expect that it will be long before it changes, but there are still items in the grocery store that have changed little in price in the last 4 months and still some good sales. Those are the things I buy to use right now.
Hi Treepers!
I just had to go looking for answer to “How long is the self life of yeast?” so I thought I would share the answer here.
This link is helpful, if you are not sure either.
https://www.primalsurvivor.net/how-to-store-dry-yeast/
One additional link. Making bread that doesn’t require yeast. Think I am going to make me a few recipe cards.
https://www.primalsurvivor.net/make-bread-without-yeast/
If it is kept in the refrigerator, yeast is still good for at least a year. I buy in bulk and keep it in a mason jar in the fridge.
All by design. There has been an acceleration of events because this cabal of serpents know they are on limited time. 3rd horseman. Rev. 6
An ear of corn is $1.10 at Walmart.
Not too unusual since nowhere in the USA are we close to roasting ears season.
That final thought is great advice.
Be the Gray man and woman.
we were, for a brief period of time, a net OIL EXPORTER as well. unfortunately, cheating-ass ‘democratic’ communists canceled that.
famines have been regularly used by communists to exterminate their political opposition. don’t make the mistake of thinking this can’t happen here. people thought that about the 4th branch of gov’t, too.
a republic, IF YOU CAN KEEP IT
And fuel availability affects food prices, and food availibility.
This guy knows what he’s talking about.
3 min. vid.
I don’t think so. Got ammo ?
Big Ag has been doing this for years, but it will get worse soon.
They look to see what price/supply level in their largest markets (usually here) gets them the highest overall returns, then export the rest, even at a lower price in a foreign country. We see increases in seasonal availability of fruits and vegetables, but no real associated seasonal drop in prices.
Fertilizer will be a problem for our smaller farmers, as they often need to finance fertilizer and seed purchases. Interest rates will be higher, costs higher, but loan availability will likely be based on historic prices, rather than what this years’ crop may bring, meaning less output.
Much of our grain crops are used as animal feed, so meat will be higher.
We need to stop wasting food (corn) making alcohol that we can’t drink (fuel ethanol). This policy has already raised world food prices, and our meat prices.
China has bought much of this year’s soybean crop already, and has been buying farmland and food processing companies here at a high rate. They already have taken delivery in China of about half of the currently available wheat and nearly 70% of the corn supply.
Russia, Belarus, and the Ukraine produce half of the worlds’ potash. Nitrate fertilizer is made from natural gas, which is in short supply now.
This is going to be a very rough ride regardless, and I suspect that our .gov is actually trying to sink the boat on us.
Little do people know that urine is a good source of nitrogen but you have to dilute it first.
Mine is diluted with beer.