Posted on 03/13/2022 9:19:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Two weeks after the Russia-Ukraine crisis began, the world is quickly moving toward a food crisis that could affect millions of people. A spillover of the crisis could soon spark agricultural mayhem in the US.
The curtailment of agricultural exports from Russia and Ukraine will have dramatic knock-on effects on global food supplies. Both countries are known as the 'breadbasket of the world' and are responsible for a quarter of the international wheat trade, about a fifth of corn, and 12% of all calories traded globally. Another major problem is access to fertilizers, as Russia has banned exports of the nutrients.
It's not whether or not there will be a food crisis. It's how big that crisis will be.
We've already noted a handful of emerging market countries to monitor as the Russian invasion is choking off grain exports to them and causing prices to rise, which may result in social unrest. Even in the Western world, agricultural markets have not been immune, and higher prices have stung consumers.
A tweet from Douglas Karr, the founder of the businesses blog Martech Zone, made the point the "media isn't even warning you" a food crisis in America is emerging.
Karr said he spoke with numerous folks in the food industry who said farmers in the South and Midwest are having trouble procuring fertilizer to grow crops ahead of planting season. He said farmers in the "Midwest are switching," likely referring to crops that need fewer nutrients because they "can't get nitrogen nor fertilizer."
Convo with farm today:
- Meat processors booked out a year because stockpiling beef.
- Farmers in South can’t get fertilizer for crops now.
- Farmers in Midwest are switching, can’t get nitrogen nor fertilizer.
Buckle up, folks! The media isn’t even warning you. #economy — Douglas Karr (@douglaskarr) March 11, 2022
Even before Russia invaded Ukraine, the global food system was strained. Snarled supply chains and adverse weather conditions in top growing regions of the world resulted in low crop yields and rising prices. The supply shock of Ukraine will amplify the crisis as the UN warned global food prices could jump 8%-20% from here (prices are already at record highs).
Responding to Karr's viral tweet, some people said they were buying a freezer to panic hoard food supplies as the worst food crisis has yet to come.
"Likely getting a 2nd chest freezer soon and stuffing it with meats/frozen vegetables/etc. Also, it looks like "preppers" who were dismissed or made fun of last decade are about to be set on being right," one person said.
Another person said, "Read this and then understand why in the last 6 months several publications have been grooming us to accept eating bugs. All of this was planned. Buy a 2nd freezer, and stock it. Soon."
Biden’s weakness and idiotic ‘green energy’ policies are screwing up the entire world.
I don't know what else to do....got quite bit of pasta and a huge container of rice...tuna, canned veggies, salt, sugar, some flour....
I've got seeds and been composting over the winter....
Firearms & Ammo
Hope you have a backup electrical power system.
Serious generator capacity (preferably nat gas powered)
Dont forget the BREAD of LIFE...
Once I was young, and now I am old. Yet I have never seen the godly abandoned or their children begging for bread. (PSALM 37:25)
My local grocery can barely keep certain commodities on the shelf chicken for example
I go dry an canned, just worried about rodents pests, and waterproofing but think I am safe as long as no fire or earthquake
Bulls**t.
Who ever is pushing this garbage needs to stop.
What liars “journalists “ are.
Nobody claimed they were buying freezers to “panic hoard food supplies”.
Sounds like you are all set.
The price of wheat goes up , farmers grow more , end of crisis.
well that’s the rub....our generator is gas powered...we have about 12 gas cans full and if we only run our freezers and refrig we’ll be okay...we have a gas furnace and stove top plus a wood stove....
Include me while sending out the party invites. When is it again?
The way my wife goes through rice, I’d have to buy 3 or 4 50 gallon bins...
House brand pasta has already been scarce, recently.
When fertilizer is in short supply?
Eventually fertilizer production / supply will catch up, but, in time for this year's growing season?
There’s no good(!) reason the US itself should run low on food, but, prices are already going crazy, and, export volume could well fall sharply. Many net import countries could be in trouble.
(!) Could Biden make it worse? Do I even need to ask?
When I was a kid in Chicago, we went through the worst snowstorm Chicago has ever seen. The whole neighborhood ran out of food.
All the dads shoveled a way-out of the neighborhood and pulling sleds, set out to resupply the neighborhood with food.
My family has been food hoarders ever since.
bttt
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