Posted on 03/23/2022 11:02:15 AM PDT by EBH
Our food chain is very delicate & it's ALL interconnected! This issue may NOW be resolving itself by March 23rd?-but this whole conversation sheds more light to how dependent we really are! See ya on the farm & thanks for watching! 😊
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Long-term consequences in the next 30-90 days if farmers cannot plant.
Reopen the closed Potash mines around Carlsbad NM!
Then what?
Back to the basics, beans and rice. salt and pepper if you can get it.
Butt, butt, butt the environment. And what about the caverns?
Tim Pool’s take.
Our government is pretty d$#% stupid. Never thinking two seconds ahead and possible consequences. Or they do and they want it that way.😡
I’d say they are anything but stupid.
As a kid I remember hearing that the pilgrims at the Plymouth colony used fish as fertilizer.
Americans get all the fertilizer they need for the House and Senate.
Trust the unions never to let a crisis go to waste.
It’s all making us “doomsday” preppers looking rather prescient, eh?
Growing up on the banks of the Tittabawassee River near Midland, Michigan, any carp that we caught were buried in our garden as fertilizer. Particularly planted at the base of the raspberry bushes, dead carp worked really well ... about the only good use that a carp has.
I am hearing more and more about the coming food crisis. Honestly, when the NYT is mentioning it...it is time to pay attention and prepare.
Small home gardener here. But as long as I am able I started ordering from the LDS. Yes, you read that right. LDS. Why? They sell to folks in the #10 cans for long-term storage. And it is way less than the widely publicized ‘emergency food.’ I can cook quite well, forage too. So I do not need the fancy stuff, just the good old basics. LOL.
Throwing back some can goods too. This sideways slide is turning into a slope that’s all downhill.
I would say so. I prepped for a 3 month scenario, not I am pushing to get to a year. Patera is already saying to start depression era style rationing too.
It is going to get very bad for a long time and ....
man...this is hard to watch in slow motion.
Yep.
We were all prepping for nuclear war, but it’s turning out to be nuclear stupid.
The US is capable of making all the fertilizer inputs we need. Here’s my understanding. In general, the prime ingredient is natural gas, which we have in abundance. The reason the US imports at all is there’s a cost advantage as the capability wasn’t necessary in the US and we didn’t always have this incredible abundance of natural gas. Therefore, we didn’t need to produce fertilizer and building the capacity wasn’t worth it at the present price. But as the global supply chain collapses, that will change. Not overnight. But the US will be fine. There is currently a lot of farmlands that are being held out of production on purpose to keep the prices high. (Yes, you read that correctly. Thank our government which is deathly afraid of “deflation.”)
Russia is the world’s number one supplier of grains and fertilizer. Their primary market for grains is the Middle East and for fertilizer is China. Russia has stopped all grain exports, as has Ukraine. (For different reasons, obviously.) There’s no planting going on in Ukraine, which is the world’s number five supplier...also to the Middle East. The last time there was a food crisis in the Middle East we had “The Arab Spring.” (Russian crops failed for two years in a row...fires and locusts.)
The huge impact is going to be to the Middle East and to China. As there’s one global market those purchasers will drive up the world price. Invest in Archer Daniel’s Midland...
bkmk
In Mao’s China, all human waste was collected to be sent to the collective farms.
I also heard that in present-day North Korea, everyone is given a quote of human waste they must produce. Since most people are malnourished, most people can’t meet the quota, so a lot of fakery goes on.
I guess we all live se weight.
1. Find someone who produces fresh eggs. Hint: It’s usually a residence just outside of city jurisdiction and they will have a”Fresh Eggs” sign posted outside.
2. Bring a 5-gallon bucket. $8 from Lowes.
3. Politely ask for about 1.5 - 2 inches of chicken manure.
4. Take it home and fill, stir, then let sit for 2 hours.
Congrats, your have your fertilizer. It’s called “Chicken Tea.” You’re welcome.
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