Posted on 04/11/2022 5:02:57 PM PDT by blam
Mine was huge- Africa AND China. Double the guilt.
It’s coming. Stay tuned 2023 for sub Saharan Africa…. I can’t predict the extent here in the US.. perhaps numerous inconveniences but higher prices for certain.
My two cents.
MFO
Agree..There will be difficulties here for those who can not afford the prices. There will be shortages. Think about how many things use wheat. Pizza for goodness sakes. I’ve been reading about the ‘forever chemicals’ shutting down farms. That is concerning because it’s a long term problem. But, soon - those in developing countries will be hit hard.
I just stocked up on spaghetti and noodles just to have on hand. Nothing excessive. Just extra.
Cra cra isn’t it? Neglecting harvests for a disease that kills ..what? 1-2 % tops! Mostly old people at that.
Even more bizarre in a country that has had such history with famine.
My mom would say China too.
I remember reading once that there was starving in India and the USA had sent high-yielding planting seeds...They were so hungry that the minute the seeds arrived they were eaten.
Now...the problem was that the seeds had been pre-coated with some sort of pesticide and many died.
I've been grateful that I'm in the USA since I was a small child.
Mrs MFO and I as well have been in the stocking mode for the past year since Covid. I think Covid and toilet paper will be a walk in the park compared to what some Americans will experience in the ensuing months.
Please, I am not bragging but I have been employed as a Professor and Extension Beef Specialist at a major land grant University in the field of beef cattle nutrition. Escalating costs in energy feedstuffs, mineral, fertilizer and diesel is keeping me up at night with the added twist of drought conditions. I am outwardly concerned for the sustainability of those smaller/medium sized operation’s ability to stay in business.
Time will tell..
MFO
Zububrothers.com is down. hmmmm.
“Zububrothers.com Status
Is zububrothers.com down right now?
It’s not just you! zububrothers.com is down.”
Works for me.
Your link works, but the home page won’t come up. Weird.
And if the smaller operations fail, it will contribute to further shortages?
I didn’t consider that scenario. But, it makes sense.
Can you tell me if the forever chemicals will shut down many operations?
Is the contamination in the soil permanent?
Please tell me how you recommend preparing. On one hand, I’m doing some stocking. On the other hand, I don’t want to over react. How long do you think this will go on / will it be a domino effect?
“Jilin, located in China’s corn belt, is an important processing and production region for the country’s cereals.
The authorities locked down the entire province on March 14.
The lockdown has affected 24 million people and threatened the national food supply. “
“On April 6, Jilin authorities claimed that to safeguard the spring plowing, more than 80 percent of seeding sheds covering 19,768 acres of land were ready,
and over 90 percent of corn and soybean seeds had been delivered. “
”However, online Chinese videos showed farmers from various parts of the country were removed as they plowed the fields by local police for violating lockdowns,
and were subject to either detention or quarantine for 14 days. “
” ..“Seeds and fertilizer are the two main things for spring plowing. But China’s viable grain seeds come in at a high price.”
According to Liu, many Chinese farmers have become victims of the opaque procurement practice in China.
Some even had near-zero harvest because of bad seeds. “
“He explained that the seeds are controlled by foreign entities, and they are very expensive.
“The farmers no longer keep the good seeds from previous harvest like in the old days,” he said. “ (Emphasis mine)
“Over the years, Chinese farmers have suffered economic loss owing to inferior seeds. In one 2019 Chinese media report, a case of inferior seeds cost 205 farmers in Jiangxi Province around $726,000 loss, totaling 800 acres of fields. In 2020, fake seeds led to no harvest in a 279-acre field involving 40 farmers in Inner Mongolia. “
(My comment) : When you are dependent on “bad seed” for your crop production, crop yields will be lower, or totally non-existant.
The article states that the only “good seed” is controlled by “foreign entities”.
Farming is the closest thing to financial gambling with many conditions that remain outside your control ; it is always about timing, weather conditions,
having good seed and fertilizer; when you have a late season planting even good seed will see a lower crop yield,
but you need to be in the field, even if it is just to sow in the crop.
If you don't get into the field even for a small crop , there will be no seed for the next years crop.
The fact that farmers who rely on good seed, can't keep seed over from one year to the next,
suggests that “good seed” may in fact be genetically modified and controlled by external foreign forces.
Didn’t the holodomor start with the government saying they would provide the farmers with seed, then saying the seeds had been delivered when they weren’t?
I recorded the later showing of that Tucker Carlson show so that I could make sure I’d heard everything correctly. I’m not sure when I’ve seen anything so disturbing since 9/11. The wailing and screaming of the Chinese people locked into their apartments, starving....made my blood run cold. And those so called “quarantine camps”. Hundreds of people and one toilet. One would be lucky if they didn’t contract hepatitis, cholera or typhoid.
This is much more of a warning to cosmopolitan Shanghai than anything to do with the China virus.
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