Posted on 03/27/2022 9:45:07 AM PDT by blam
You need to be able to slap one of those Biden “I did this” stickers on every invoice you generate. Of course, your fertilizer supplier will need a bunch of those stickers too. I plant a little garden and sweat the amount of time and expense I put into it. Raccoons, deer, or my incompetence might cost me a $100 and 20 hours work. I would never have the nerve to wager what you farmers do every year, especially with totally unforeseen, self inflicted madness like this factored into the odds.
Re: 11 - Am signing up for a CSA with a local farmer that has been doing that for about 40 years. Just don’t have time with work to tend my own garden, plus it supports a local producer and workers. The CSA farmer used to do cash cropping but leases out all non-CSA acreage to a local dairy farmer than milks ~2500 cows.
(Get your supplies early. If you need Propane and Diesel maybe top it up now.)
“Other than that, things are great!”
*BUMP* for further reading after chores...
Yes. 135th ave.
It’s 500 million and from a long term as in century level time scales scientifically they are not wrong. The scientific term is carrying capacity the earth’s long term carrying capacity is around 500 million that’s just cold hard math. Humans will burn trough every liquid technically recoverable hydrocarbon in just under 50 years the numbers are something a 8th grader should be able to do. Coal adds in a century or two much less if 8+ billion try to have western energy consumption rates. There’s no need for drastic black Swan measures just taking the birth ratio to 2 or less for a century world wide would cut the population to the carrying capacity. Western countries already have under 2 for their reproductive ratio that is for every two reproductive partners they have less than two total.children that survive to adulthood. The bare minimum replacement rate is 2.2 the USA has been under 2 for decades, same for Russia, Japan and nearly all of the EU. China just went under 2 with their one child policy working in spades. India and Africa are the ones with 3+ rates and are producing all the useless eaters of the world. Getting them under 2 solves the problem in three or four generations. Most people on this planet will never produce in their lifetimes more benefits for society via productive efforts ,scientific research, or cultural assets than the resources they consume they are by definition unproductive eaters. It’s cold but an absolute fact.
You shouldn’t ramble/babble with run-on blurbs about whatever eccentric horse flop you wanna spew.
Your head is so far up your anus, you can’t even break a paragraph, yet you have the “math” on our extinction. According to you, we were at “peak humanity” ages ago.
You sound like the walkers I’d encounter in NYC years ago.
Back in 1971, we were told that there was only oil for the next 20 years.
We would be out of oil by 1991.
Yet, we still have oil in 2022.
What a miserable life you must lead.
Sitting in the dark calculating how many people must die in order for you to be satisfied.
Bill Gates has it all under control.
The 5% of the population that will survive the Great Reset will be eating his imitation foods laced with gene-modifying vaccines.
Holy . . .
I knew prices were climbing fast, but I didn’t realize it was THAT fast!
My farm doesn’t use “boughten” fertilizers, but the farms around mine do. I worry about them, some are going to be hurting soon.
Manure is about to be worth its weight in gold.
Argh! Herbicide shortage! I should have expected it. Any details?
Don’t rely on others for your food supply.
…First, what is causing the shortage? There are several different factors which are impacting this issue. In no particular order, the reasons for the herbicide shortage include a decline in number of laborers to unload tanker ships at gulf ports, lack of truck transportation from the ports to get the ingredients to U.S. formulation plants or formulated products to the retailers, reduced supplies of some of the inert ingredients of the formulation, shortages of materials to make containers and packaging, and Hurricane Ida that damaged a glyphosate production plant in Luling, LA…
I don’t know many details, and the article above covers what I knew plus a little. There are rumors of a possible pesticide shortage, but I haven’t seen anything concrete yet.
If you can grow a garden, grow as much as you can! Now is probably a good time to research permaculture as well. Permaculture has been lumped together with the leftist eco-cult, but if you can manage to get past that and into the actual science behind it, it can be useful.
You got me thinking and I started looking around. It’s pretty scary. I saw this, which is pre Ukraine. https://www.agweb.com/news/crops/crop-production/bayer-warns-more-glyphosate-shortages-heres-how-severe-situation-could
I bought a 2 1/2 gallon of 50% Glyphosate from Amazon last September for $129. I just checked, $195. Looks more and more like a perfect storm.
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