There are often questions raised about whether the crises created by the Biden White House policy are incompetence or intentional. For the group that believes ‘incompetence‘ is behind the chaos, well, they gained a significant data point today.
During a White House press briefing a reporter asks, “My question is about how the White House plans to prepare for food shortages, particularly as it comes to wheat …. should U.S. farmers grow more wheat this year instead of corn and soybeans given the possible food shortages?”
The Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers, Cecilia Rouse, answered” …”farmers respond to price signals. So, with the price of food rising, they will be responding by making additional plantings and trying to take advantage of the increased price signal. So, the market will work as the market will work.” Please WATCH 16:32 Prompted
The reporter and the Chair of the CEA seemingly have no idea how long it takes to farm or grow a crop. As if switching from corn to wheat was just a Monday decision. Good grief, June/July harvests for winter wheat this year were planted in October of last year.
Changing a crop in the spring for harvest in the summer is not akin to changing your regular order of beverages at Starbucks.
No one installs a fake prez and then blames the failures on incompetence.. 100% by design via the devil’s army
I hope they are aware that you reap what you sow.
They give zero shits on consequences, believing themselves well above such earthly matters.
I think this “farming” thing was a bit of an oversight, though.
”Nobody told me ‘farming’ would be on the test!”
This year is a drought in Western Oklahoma. So I don’t know how the wheat fields look. But in a good year the sight of the green wheat turning amber and golden when it ripens is a truly glorious sight. From the towns of Kingfisher to Enid to Woodward and Alva. Miles and miles and miles. North across the state line into Kansas is many times more. Just fantastic.
Grew up in Custer County near Weatherford. Wheat is coming on due to recent rain. Early wheat pasture for calves was tough. We’ll see that in beef shortage/prices. Hay and feed are expensive. Hope those with cows can hang on to them.
April freeze – let’s pray not!
Yeah…the sound of ripe wheat bristling in the breeze is a song.
I know a few of those towns mentioned!
I live in the middle of wheat growing territory in WA State. The winter wheat crop is looking poor as we’re still in a drought. Reports from the midwest growing areas are worse.
Keep stocking up – apparently morons are in charge. That’s the optimistic view.
The pessimistic view is to add ammo to your stocking up supplies.
Been hearing from law enforcement contacts in Central Washington there seems to be a very large increase in Hispanic migrants. The migrant camps in the Yakima Valley are really dangerous places
As someone on the production floor at a MAJOR ammo maker, I can tell you we’re working our tails off producing what y’all need. But none of us has a clue about what happens to it once it’s loaded on a trailer. I have to wonder if the fact that a certain investment company owns controlling shares in the company that owns my company means that the supply chain is being tinkered with. I recently heard an unconfirmed rumor that seems to suggest this is true.
You can’t buy bulk wheat here in Texas right now. White wheat berries are sold out everywhere. Winco big distributor says they may not be able to get the bulk bags back in. They have no bags company wide. Go online to any company that sells wheat look at the price,.. then sit down to look at shipping costs. Same is true of a number of products. Whoever is running the “demented old man” needs to be exposed and imprisoned. It’s elder abuse at the least and sedition at best.
Are you talking about wheat berries for bread baking? Here in my neck of the Llano Estacado we can still find wheat berries at our local Natural Grocers. Small bags but available. I am ordering from a coop later this week that has assured their customers they have & will have wheat berries available. Look up Breadbeckers.com
Have you tried Azure Standard?
Lots of grains and legumes and other supplies at reasonable prices.
In many areas they have regular drops, where a group of people get together and order (this can be done on-line, on the Azure Standard website) and there is a bulk shipment, no charge for shipping.
I just got my first order from them and it was easy and affordable.
They sell out quickly. My drop had numerous people scrounging for wheat berries. We found a couple of vendors for our small group locally, but it is not looking good.
Also, depending on your drop location there is a charge. For us in the southeast it is 8.5% of your order.
She’s probably never pulled a calf, scooped wheat in or out of a bin, sold wheat at the scales to pay bills, hand pulled rye out of seed wheat field, built fence, bought and maintained tractors-combines-implements, worked till it’s time to go to bed ’cause 5 comes early.
Yet…here we are.
During the last couple years of the Civil War, when the Confederacy was struggling to keep its soldiers supplied, the southern states began to hoard what they had in excess. (For example, while many southern soldiers were fighting without boots, NC had a warehouse full of them but would not hand over them over to the Confederacy for distribution.)
In short, with backs against the wall and no strong central government, the states became islands onto themselves.
My point is, when I see the map Sundance provided (many thanks!!), I wonder if the states will be pushed to the point of hoarding again, and if so, will they fight the urge to turn inward? Ex: Idaho keeps its potatoes, Wisconsin its milk, Texas its oil, etc.
In other words, will the states unite against the corrupt, illegitimate federal government in DC and tarry on as a group, or will they divide themselves and be more easily conquered?
No, because Governors are frauds.
They rarely unite because they’re bureaucratic narcissists who lack leadership capabilities and fear being upstaged.
Except Desantis.
At least, Abbott has someone to show him how. And eventually, he kinda sorta arrives. Sorta.
Especially the one in Texas.
No, as long as distribution holds out, products will move. Therein lies the rub though, farming has devolved into areas of specialization. 50 years ago the mantra was diversification, most every area that had the climate had the facilities to support local consumption of necessities, milk, meat, basic essentials, only a few areas that produced excesses for city consumption. Iowa has always been hog country, Wisconsin has always been dairy country, the Great Plains has always been cattle country, those were areas relied on by cities, but local needs were always met first. Now, between corporatization and centralization, not just in production (Smithfield, JBS, Cargill, et al) but also in distribution (Walmart, et al), it has destroyed local chains of supply. You could lack for the basics in rural areas if long distance trucking gets interrupted for no better reason than the economic capability to supply milk, meat, dry good staples, and produce has been made economically unviable, to where locally will have a severe oversupply of a few items and a dearth of the rest. It should also be noted that livestock feedstocks are railed all over the place, very little relatively homegrown feed is fed to livestock, the vast majority of large livestock farms and livestock integrators are having to buy and ship in almost all their grain feeds.
Intentional incompetence maybe? Here in Australia its the exact same deal. Green policies have been an absolute failure that have seriously hurt our agricultural industries. Right now as I reply Queensland and New South Wales are being hit with more devastating rain. They have already experienced the worst flooding in living memory, and …its on again. They haven’t even recovered from the first floods. Whats the big deal? That region is Australia’s food bowl. Its our most fertile region in the nation.
I watched an old farmer on video say he was there for 1964, he was there for 1978, he was there for 1983 (not real dates) and he’s never seen anything like this. But he wasn’t talking about the floods. He was talking about the sky, the rain itself, the weather. He said it was like a bomb went off. I’ve seen a few videos like this from locals describing clouds and rain like they’ve never seen before. Some ‘conspiracy theorists’ are talking about weather modification being used to take out Australia’s most fertile region …
The really weird thing is you can’t find any information about it outside the local areas. Sure there’s all the media spin, the telethons to raise money, and backdrops with military passing boxes to one another to show the city folks the government is assisting. But that’s not what’s going on at all. These people were abandoned. Many sat on the roofs of their houses for days. No helicopters, no rescue boats. Only locals doing what they could. It was so bad even the city folk came up to lend a hand.
Today they are being hit again. I’m watching the region on radar. Its 12:30pm here and there’s a massive low pressure system sitting just off the east coast of Australia. That’s our food bowl. We don’t have the luxury places like America have with fertile soil from coast to coast. Our east coast region is pretty much it. Look at a map, Australia is mostly uninhabitable. If that food bowl sits under water …
Its probably just a coincidence.
Mother Nature trying to wipe the trash off the land..?
We have the same coincidence here in CA; we can see them spraying the skies. The spray dries us out and then gives unpredictable weather; tonight is a special treat, we might get tornados. It is amazing there are so many people that don’t believe it and it has been going on since the 1950’s.
I’ve personally known student pilots whose summer job was to fly weather mod. for farmers that was in the early 80s and more benign.
Thanks so much for that report –
Sadly, we no longer have (or as much of) “luxury places like America have with fertile soil from coast to coast.” For example, traveling through Pennsylvania, all sorts of beautiful farmland has been lost to McMansion development.
I have come to the conclusion that there isn’t any coming back from this current disaster. There’s only going to be riding it out and hoping you’re one of the ones that makes it to the other side. And – you can’t do it alone. If you haven’t already, find other like minded people that you can help so that they will help you when the time comes. Our rulers, as evil as they are, are not serious, capable creatures. They certainly are capable of creating chaos and mayhem, but can they feed themselves? No, they can’t. They will resort to steeling from others.
I used to think that this was just a coming economic collapse – but, I now think this fourth turning is more serious than that. It actually could be a civilization collapse, caused by the insane power hungry creatures who think they rule over us. We’ll see – such pleasant thoughts for a Tuesday.
They are not merely misguided political animals.
They are truly the spawn of Satan.
This is about world depopulation.
Can you raise a garden and have a few chickens?
Being able to do that can be the difference between starving and just being somewhat hungry.
God bless and keep you and yours and all your country.
HAARP. I know a 93 year old man that work on this project in Washington State when it started. He said what they could do back then was frightening, he can’t imagine what they can do now.
https://haarp.gi.alaska.edu
Add a Grand Solar Minimum to your calculations. The sun is a variable star. Its outputs vary according to at least two magnetic cycles which rotate against each other. We are generally aware of the 11 and 22 year sunspot cycle. There is a deeper magnetic cycle turning in a deeper layer of the sun.
The last Grand Solar Minimum, the Maunder Minimum, corresponds to “the little ice age.” These periods cause cooler weather/climate in temperate zones and increase rainfall there.
Farming productivity falls. The best areas for many crops shift farther from the poles and closer to the equator. This disrupts farming.
We are here. This is not only stupidity and malice.
There is also nature.
Stockpile. Organize.
Pray.
Those non GMO nutball’s will wish for more GMO’s…..LOL When the food shortage hits bigly.
Not if they want to plant a replacement crop
GMO will sprout back from seed just the same as non GMO, the supposed kill gene is just a myth perpetrated by the organic nutjobs that think discrediting conventional agriculture is an easier way to sell their product than trying to demonstrate how much better theirs are versus conventional. Any open pollinated crop will come back true regardless of its’ GMO status, any hybrid will not come back true no matter what.
I’m not thinking terminator seeds are “just a myth perpetrated by the organic nutjobs” – a quick Google Scholar search returned over 100,000 articles for “terminator gene technology”.
Here’s one of them from JSTOR – https://www.jstor.org/stable/24101017
The problem with terminator gene technology isn’t so much that they will take over the world, as some have claimed – which, really, makes no sense from the ‘terminator’ part of the name. It’s that they’re not sustainable. What happens when Monsanto (now owned by Bayer, yes, the aspirin people), stops producing the seeds because their supply chain can’t cough up the inputs necessary to do so? They don’t produce seeds and they take a hit on their balance sheet for the loss – really, nothing happens to them but, all the people that were eating the food produced from those plants that came from those seeds??? they’re going to go hungry (at best).
Am I an organic nutjob? Well, I guess I am – but, I don’t want to rely on Bayer Crop Science corporation for my seeds. I would rather save my one, thanks. That way, some nutjob in a lab coat won’t be inserting ‘vaccine’ genetic code into my lettuce, for my own ‘good’.
How much farming have you done?
John Ringo probably isn’t too startled to know that part of The Last Centurions is being acted out in real life.
Farmer, located in Ohio right below the last a in Indiana on your map. Almost no one grows much wheat, corn for idiotic ethanol is the number one crop followed by soybeans. This is livestock country so most wheat and oats goes in silo for cattle feed and is used as a cover crop for alfalfa, another cattle feed. although that is changing as smaller dairy is disappearing around here.
also crop insurance pays better on corn and soybeans. It’s screwy. I should write a paper on how agriculture went wrong back in the 50’s and is a disaster now, but the corporate and university masters are happy
Why do I not feel convinced ? These people look and act Clueless.
Farmers need to grow soybeans to feed the Chinese pigs.
WH incompetence or intentional?
Former CIA officer John Sipher claimed in a stunning Twitter thread that he took particular joy in discrediting the Hunter Biden laptop from hell narrative and enthusiastically admitted to shifting the election away from Trump.
Sipher was among the many intelligence experts who falsely claimed the Hunter Biden laptop story from the New York Post back in October of 2020 was part of a Russian disinformation campaign.
CIA officer John Sipher has confessed that the ‘Deep State’ rigged the 2020 election in Joe Biden’s favor and has boldly admitted that the agency would do it again.
I believe the stupid non-answers they give are not incompetence – they simply don’t give a you know what. They are enjoying their destruction of America, and our little concerns are meaningless to them – other than the thrill they get in causing suffering.
Isn’t a ridiculous question like ‘just change your crop’ to farmers more directed toward the public who’ve never been out of the city? Mark Dice proves how uninterested random people are about their country when most don’t know who the current President or Vice President is. If half the population don’t care to trouble themselves with current events, their eyes would glaze over if you tried to discuss the gravity of wheat futures.
Once the level of food shortages are so widespread even those who don’t know when America celebrates her birthday will realize there’s no wheat, ie bread.
I stopped growing my own food because of a bad back. Looks like I’m going to struggle through my garden this year. Thank God I’ve kept all my canning equipment, jars, recipes
Raised beds!
They help a lot.
Lots of info on YouTube about cheap container gardening, raised beds, raising crops in homemade grow bags, etc.
Getting a good little gardening bench or stool can be helpful, too.
What about recruiting a younger relative or neighbor who wants to learn gardening and who has a strong back, a sort of apprentice-helper?
You can do this, there are ways to accommodate health issues. Even folks in wheelchairs can garden.
You just have to be creative and maybe ask for some help.
Never forget, there is no freedom without food freedom.
President Joe Biden’s latest budget request asks Congress for at least $12 billion extra
to accelerate the inflow of migrants into the United States
so they can take away our jobs and homes.
The “mainstream media” laughs at our economic suffering.
But no economic assistance is forthcoming for John Q. Public
as runaway inflation begins devastating American families.
And the stupidity of this administration just oozes on throughout! And some people wonder how this all happened in such a short time.
It is much more evil, than stupidity.
Merle has a prophetic word…
The Mighty Merle. God I miss that talent. My consolation is I have just about everything he ever recorded.
As a positive example of unintended consequences,
A group of pretty smart designers, working for Mattel toy company, MANY years ago, had an idea for a new product.
A toy doll, primarily for girls (did I say this was MANY years ago?) that would TALK to its owner.
This was WAY before computers, at the time the only thing like this was a doll that said “Ma-ma” as you tilted it.
The designers wanted the doll to talk in complete sentences, and say different things.
They figured rather than batteries, it could operate with a pull string. And the words could be recorded on magnetic tape, that was the same technology used for reel to reel recordings for music.
However, they felt strongly that if the child had to open up the back of the doll, periodically to flip the tape over, or rewind it, that it would ruin it for the child being able to “suspend disbelief” as in
“once you see the strings”.
Finally, they came up with a brilliant solution: a “closed loop” tape, that constantly winds back on itself, like the mythical snake eating its own tail.
It worked, and Mattel made 10’s of millions, selling “Chattie Cathie” dolls,…
And then, while still under patent (this closed loop system) somebody said “HEY, if we made a bigger version, and put music on it, I wouldn’t have to get up and turn over my RECORDS!”
And they made 10’s of millions MORE, licensing the patent for 8 track tapes.
And then, somebody said “If we made an even BIGGER version, say 8 hours of music, it could be “background” music on elevators, in grocerie stores, etc.”
And 4 track “Muzak”, and AGAIN they made $, off of licensing the patent.
All because they wanted to make a doll for kids, that would talk to the kid, and didn’t want the kid to have to rewind or flip over a tape.
There are many other stories of both “positive” and negative “unintended consequences”; the Titanic, both Space shuttle disasters, etc.
Point being, I would NOT discount the possibility/probability that some of what we are seeing IS, in fact unintended consequences.
I had a Chatty Cathy doll. Got it for Christmas when I was a child.
Good Lord I am old, lol.
I once visited the home of a doll maker/collector, who had porcelain dolls everywhere upstairs, except the bathroom and the basement was Chatty Cathy; dolls in a schoolroom, sitting at desks; dolls playing ring around the rosie, dolls standing on shelves. She had examples of all but 5 variations.
Just so you know, the 8-track cartridge was developed in the early 1960s by Bill Lear, designer also of the Lear Jet, in concert with then major media manufacturers such as Ampex. It was based on earlier tape cartridge designs that had used conventional 1/4 tape, but with simpler mechanisms and inexpensive materials, designed for mass manufacture.
I believe my older sister had a “Chatty Cathy” doll.
Again, the stupidity of these government workers (and media) is astounding.
As is pointed out, a corn and soybean farmer does not just switch to wheat on a Monday … if ever. The corn belt grain production and processing system has trillions of dollars of infrastructure for corn and beans. It has been developed upgraded and refined for over 100 years.
The selection of crops is driven largely by climate and soil and landscape conditions. NE Iowa farmers for example do not grow wheat for many good reasons. They aren’t switching to wheat any time soon.
Further, corn and its processed and refined byproducts are to be found in something you eat every day. Corn is everywhere, for better or worse (topic for another day). It feeds livestock it’s in hundreds of processed foods and drinks. If someone never eats an ear or kernel of corn, they are still eating corn in some form.
This is but one example of the stupidity and naïveté of our government and media complex. They are stupid and have little practical knowledge of how the world works. Massive, complex issues like food production in their simple minds are like changing the Starbucks drink order. They cant plan, simulate, or think through anything because they are stupid mental midgets.
Is it little wonder we get such horrible results and negative return on our tax $$ with such idiots in positions with authority?
One more …. The Chair of the Council of Economic Advisors uses the word ‘plantings.’
‘Additional plantings?’ Really? What the h is that supposed to mean? Different types of crops? Additional crops? One can tell a lot about intelligence and command of subject matter by word choice.
This bizarre phrasing suggests a low functioning dummy who has moved up the diversity affirmative action activist ladder based on things other than intelligence or abilities.
Which Turgidson? The bombastic Air Force general, portrayed by George C Scott, or the psychotic professor, played by Sam Kinnison in “Back to School”? Say it! Say it! Auuuugh! Auuuugh!
“Plantings” because a field may be planted more than once in a season. The first planting could fail, resulting in a second planting. In my area, it’s one planting unless a second planting from failure. Different parts of the country have longer planting seasons, some long enough to plant more than one crop so yeah, plantings.
Since farmers rotate crops, it’s common for a field to be planted w one crop odd years and another even years; farms often support multiple crops, including corn, soy, wheat, rye, alfalfa, etc.
Michael Bloomberg:
“I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer. It’s a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, add water, up comes the corn.”
Also….make more than $300K.
How does civilizational collapse happen? We allowed people to amass vast amounts of money and called them Billionaires. These billionaires were told that they are ‘special‘ because, after all, they were allowed to amass vast amounts of money. Those Billionaires began to believe their own press and got the idea they actually knew shit. Turns out – they don’t know shit, but with vast amounts of money what they know doesn’t matter because they are free to perpetrate all kinds of shit. Before we knew it, they did some serious shit such as: earth cooling dust shot up into the atmosphere to prevent “global warming”, growing goo in vats and calling it our dinner, and irreversibly altering the genetics of the biome, because – science. And, that’s how a once great civilization collapsed.
He couldn’t teach anyone to be a gardener, let alone a farmer.
I grew up on a farm, 2 of my brothers remained farming…yes, dig a hole with what, put dirt on top how, where are you getting the water and how to get it in the field? Just to answer his stupid comments. Don’t consider when to plant, fertilize, bug spray ( what type of insect infestation do you have) weed control, when do you harvest, get to a grainery, do you have the machinery needed. Oh yes, take a city person who has never even grown a garden, teach them how to farm hundreds and thousands of acres. I could not do it without years of learning, and I worked in the fields as a child and teenager. It’s hard physical work.
We’re in the very best of hands.
What I picked up in this video was the focus and underlying current of the US being able to export enough to fulfill foreign contracts, US aid, and supply ‘humanitarian food’ to other nations and ‘their people in need’. Not any real thought about feeding America first.
One gets the impression that their only concern is feeding ‘others’. So would not be surprised at all if there is a shortage, all our ‘foreign obligations’ will be met while Americans go hungry.
And another point. most farmers buy their seed at year-end for planting in the spring. That is the way they have traditionally set up their finances. The expense at year end offsets the some of the income from the fall sale. But others may roll the dice and wait until spring, but it the price of corn is up versus beans in the spring, well than everyone will be looking for corn seed and basic economics comes into play.
Meanwhile thirty percent of our corn crops are used for ethanol refineries. Non food related.
The production of ethanol for fuel takes more energy to produce it and get it to market than it can deliver. If it weren’t for the considerable government subsidies, ethanol as an automotive fuel would disappear. We also pay for it in higher prices, not only of corn and corn products themselves (not necessary fresh corn, typically that’s locally grown and subject to local market conditions), but in meats, as livestock are typically ‘finished” with corn, especially hogs.
A nation being run by the demented and buffoons. What the hell has happened to the American people?
We turned our backs on God, buried our noses in smart phones, and were easy marks for politicians and “experts.”
And sat aside when public schools refused to teach pupils to read,
claiming that they had insufficient funding and that essential primary instruction is the job of parents and tutors after school hours (when both parents and students are exhausted, ready for bed and likely to fight)
See Newsweek “The Tutoring Age” from back in the 1990s. Only children of parents who can teach, or hire tutors, were going to learn to read, by 1998
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ566647
Immigrant Rudolph Flesch had pointed out in the 1950s that schools were failing to teach children to read. See “Why Johnny Can’t Read”. Flesch taught his grandson to read and shared his technique
(hint: phonics)
Additionally, teaching was scorned as the province of silly women. Women of intelligence were expected to take higher paying types of executive work.
I favor homeschooling. But if we are going to be taxed for public schools, those schools should actually teach essentials. Good public schools are a high community value. And yet —
But I have some growing in my little urban farm. Won’t that help?
The left bugs the hell out of me by using that “urban farm” phrase. It is no such thing and in most cases is barely a garden full of weeds because, “organic”!
Part of the value of home gardening is that it teaches some basic biology and science.
You may have noticed a national lack of skill in that area, lately
Step one: Remove all the ethanol subsidies and get land back into food production.
I’d never trust anyone who’s not farmed himself to be in charge of any agricultural policy.
incompetence or intentional?
BOTH
“But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.”
When the Federal government forces American farmers to grow corn for ethenol or take a subsidy to not grow wheat . . . folks we the people are suffering “a long train of abuse and usurpations” and it’s clearly time for a Convention of States under Article Five of the Constitution.
Twenty five States have passed or in the process to pass COS, Art 5. The other 25 are considering to pass COS, Art 5 legislation. It takes 34 States to convene and 38 to ratify.
Urge your State legislatures to get on board . . . last chance before people resort to 1776 tactics.
Convention of States
https://conventionofstates.com/states-that-have-passed-the-convention-of-states-article-v-application
My 80+ mom and dad have a family farm in southern North Carolina. They lease the farm land out but still live on the farm. They say they’re getting twice the income from their winter wheat crop than they’ve ever gotten. I’m not sure what’s going to be grown on the land this year but it was soybeans last year. It was corn the year before. I’ll keep you updated. We have some serious increases in food prices coming our way. Possibly double what they are now.
How about someone in the press asks if the Federal funding/subsidies will continue for:
1) planned intentional destruction of crops, for whatever reason they’re being destroyed,
2) planned growth of corn specifically for the stupid required gasohol content, and
3) planned “temporary” removal of farmlands from cultivation for the stupid & pointless “carbon sequestration” projects, like the at least 2 across Iowa and several other states.
And, if the stupid required gasohol content will be lowered or waived (or better yet, eradicated)…