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America 2023: The year that food got scarce and businesses failed
American Thinker ^ | 7 Apr, 2023 | Andrea Widburg

Posted on 04/08/2023 5:13:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber

The combination of the Biden administration’s anti-human policies and an El Niño year is very unnerving.

A “perfect storm” occurs when disparate disasters happen simultaneously, with each pushing the other to greater heights of destruction. We’re currently seeing a perfect storm in America as the Biden administration’s economic policies crash headlong into the effects of El Niño in all its fury.

As a native Californian who always looked forward to El Niño years because they ended California’s cyclical droughts, I pay a lot of attention to this weather phenomenon. Its effects, while salutary when it comes to California’s droughts, are also disastrous, as California’s floods attest.

El Niño is a cyclically occurring warming phase in the Pacific. It has nothing to do with anthropogenic climate change (“It is believed that El Niño has occurred for thousands of years”), and its effects are always dramatic. In some places, it leads to increased cyclones. In America, it can trigger increased precipitation along the Gulf Coast and the West Coast, while bringing droughts elsewhere.

The most obvious effect of weather disruption is crop disruption, and that’s exactly what’s happening in America. According to a South Dakota news outlet, the winter wheat crop in Kansas, one of America’s major food-producing states, is in trouble:

Spring is typically a good time for rain on winter wheat. However, intense drought conditions in western Kansas continue to hurt winter wheat.

Less than 20 percent of Kansas winter wheat is in good to excellent condition. The U.S. Drought Monitor says only 15 percent of Kansas’ acres are not experiencing any level of drought stress. More than 36 percent of the state reported D4 exceptional drought compared to just a little over one percent last year. D3 extreme drought conditions are hurting 16 percent of the state...

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Food; Society
KEYWORDS: leftism

1 posted on 04/08/2023 5:13:50 AM PDT by MtnClimber
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
PING

The Biden policies. What could go wrong?

2 posted on 04/08/2023 5:14:44 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

The biggest “crop disruption’ is the consumption of 40% of our corn acreage for fuel instead of food.


3 posted on 04/08/2023 5:21:44 AM PDT by hinckley buzzard ( Resist the narrative.)
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To: MtnClimber

When this does happen, I truly hope that things will not be “mostly peaceful” for anyone associated with DemocRATs. They well and truly deserve what what WILL come to them.


4 posted on 04/08/2023 5:23:22 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: hinckley buzzard
The biggest “crop disruption’ is the consumption of 40% of our corn acreage for fuel instead of food.

Bingo! Add to that the government paying some farmers to keep land fallow (to keep from oversupplying the food market and making it hard for farmers to make profit).

Every time a Dim wails about feeding the poor I throw these two government policies in their face and tell them to change their cult government ways if they really want more food for the poor (and cheaper food).

5 posted on 04/08/2023 5:27:26 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: MtnClimber

There is a Global Shortage of Fossil Fuel Fertilizer!

Last year entire countries used up their reserves. We are going to see Billions pushed ibto Netzero Starvation.


6 posted on 04/08/2023 6:08:13 AM PDT by MattMusson (Sometimes the wind bweek.lows too much)
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To: MattMusson
There is a Global Shortage of Fossil Fuel Fertilizer!

It is an orchestrated shortage.

7 posted on 04/08/2023 6:12:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: hinckley buzzard

A top of all above, a lot of land is taken from agriculture for solar cells and windmills!
A lot of land is confiscated to create all kind of parks and wilderness.


8 posted on 04/08/2023 6:51:33 AM PDT by AZJeep
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9 posted on 04/08/2023 7:48:06 AM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=40%>)
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To: MtnClimber; bitt
***The Biden policies. What could go wrong?***

Eventually history will rank Joe Bitem with Mao Zedong for massive societal destruction. I wouldn't be surprised if The Joe sees himself as a heroic Mao.

Of course it appears that The Joe is actually a puppet of Xi Jinping. History may not soon judge him harshly but my Lord will - genocidal loony... how many thousands of bodies lay at his feet already? . . . . Image Joe telling the Lord it is all Donald Trump's fault! 😂🤣😂

10 posted on 04/08/2023 9:04:30 AM PDT by Bob Ireland (The Democrap Party is the enemy of freedom.They use all the seductions and deceits of the Bolshevics)
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To: MtnClimber; 4everontheRight; 4Liberty; 5thGenTexan; 45semi; 101stAirborneVet; 300winmag; ...
Prepper ping – This one got bye me - "America 2023: The year that food got scarce and businesses failed"

”The combination of the Biden administration’s anti-human policies and an El Niño year is very unnerving.

A “perfect storm” occurs when disparate disasters happen simultaneously, with each pushing the other to greater heights of destruction.
We’re currently seeing a perfect storm in America as the Biden administration’s economic policies crash headlong into the effects of El Niño in all its fury. "

"El Niño is a cyclically occurring warming phase in the Pacific.
It has nothing to do with anthropogenic climate change (“It is believed that El Niño has occurred for thousands of years”),
and its effects are always dramatic.
In some places, it leads to increased cyclones. In America, it can trigger increased precipitation along the Gulf Coast and the West Coast, while bringing droughts elsewhere.

The most obvious effect of weather disruption is crop disruption, and that’s exactly what’s happening in America.
According to a South Dakota news outlet, the winter wheat crop in Kansas, one of America’s major food-producing states, is in trouble: “

”Spring is typically a good time for rain on winter wheat. However, intense drought conditions in western Kansas continue to hurt winter wheat.

Less than 20 percent of Kansas winter wheat is in good to excellent condition.
The U.S. Drought Monitor says only 15 percent of Kansas’ acres are not experiencing any level of drought stress.
More than 36 percent of the state reported D4 exceptional drought compared to just a little over one percent last year.
D3 extreme drought conditions are hurting 16 percent of the state...”

(My Comment): - It is one thing to recognize that “El Niño is a cyclically occurring warming phase in the Pacific” which will affect weather, droughts, and flooding.
Drought conditions limited the amount of barge traffic on the Mississippi, thus food stockpiles piled up along its shores.
The three greatest agricultural areas of California which raise produce found in grocery stores remain in flood conditions, and will delay future planting

It is another thing to realize that temperature and climate creates unexpected seasonal agricultural shortages;
however it is another thing when arbitrary (human) decisions by railroads limit the amount of livestock feed and necessary agricultural fertilizers.
Expect grocery store produce to increase in costs , or begin to grow your own commonly used produce to limit your expenses.

Question ?: Please name one administration decision that has benefited the American consumer ?

11 posted on 04/12/2023 7:10:15 AM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt

Of all the years to take a hiatus from gardening . . .


12 posted on 04/12/2023 9:56:49 AM PDT by Ellendra (A single lie on our side does more damage than a thousand lies on their side.)
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To: MattMusson

Remember that previous vaccines may impact your choices when it comes to eating your neighbors or friends. I highly recommend not eating members of the transgender community since the hormones make them taste different.


13 posted on 04/12/2023 4:36:59 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored!)
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