Posted on 10/13/2011 10:39:48 AM PDT by Kartographer
Remember hearing something about a drought across parts of the US this year? If you buy anything with peanuts, you’re about to see the effects of a low harvest caused by the drought. Get ready for some high food prices, they are on their way.
Normally I do not subscribe to the doom-and-gloom predictions, but I am seeing it first hand.
Drought
Farmers here in Texas are losing crops, and having to sell their cattle because grass is not growing. Texas and Louisiana agreed to allow wide loads of hay to be transported between the 2 states. Here in Jasper County Texas, I see trailers loaded down with rolls of hay going through the city on a regular basis. Importing hay from Louisiana is one of the few options cattlemen have right now.
Because of farmers selling off their cattle herds, the price of beef might be artificially low right now. If the sale of cattle starts to slow down, we might see the price of beef jump.
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Odd. NYS had one of the best apple crops on record this year. Big and sweet apples with a bumper crop, even though a few farmers lost some apples to a freak hail storm earlier this summer.
The east coast had an amazing amount of rain. Texas and Arizona are blowing away and drying up fast.
Can’t do a whole lot, but we’re doing what we can to be prepared. Our small garden yielded enough variety that we have canned, frozen and dried food. Hopefully, the power doesn’t go down, as my freezer is full. I just froze chicken soup and butternut squash soup. If we can’t eat it in one sitting, the rest gets frozen. My husband learned how to make sauerkraut, and canned that, and then he took the last of the green tomatoes and made sweet pickles. We normally would have let the little ones die on the vine. We have apples in the dehydrator right now. We don’t have enough food for a year, but we are at least stocked for a couple of months. We need to focus on First Aid and heat.
And coffee.
LOTS of coffee!
Large containers of Peter Pan at Sam's Club still at the old price as of yesterday.
They're 6 pound containers and I think the price was $7.98.
In the local stores near me the small 16.3 oz. jars of name brand are $2.59 and up.
The generics are just slightly less.
We have used the large containers after more than 3 years on the shelf (sealed of course) and the peanut butter was still good.
I think we will stretch that record this time around.
That’s bad. If something is happening to the shrimp, what other fish are being affected?
Check out the YouTube videos by Patriot Nurse. I think you may find them helpful.
Thanks Lurker, I’ll do that!
Please add me to your preppers ping list.
Thank you.
Definitely, especially for crops.
Oh BS!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks! First Aid is something many overlook.
Our local grocery store is running a special on peanut butter this week to clear the shelves for the higher priced product. You would think they would just raise the price on what’s already there. The price is not on the jar anyway.
One thing I've been noticing in recent years is that east coast storm patterns currently move from south to north. Go to weather.com, click on the weather map, and hit play, then zoom out so you see the whole east coast. All that rain we've been seeing appears to be from water vapor from the Gulf and Atlantic making its way north. Texas has Mexico to its south.
I seem to remember a time when storms tracked mainly west to east rather than south to north (actually more like southwest to northeast)
Well, they still do. In the northeast, we get both, but there does seem to be a significant uptick in the east coast storms.
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