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."
Freeze dried foods and powdered milk is my next focus area. Plus stock piling water.
Be sure you can power those freezers.
Make sure you have the fuel and water you need for cooking.
It isn’t BS.
China supplies a majority of the fertilizer.
My local butcher said that beef on the hoof is $3/lb- the highest it has ever been and it soaring to $5 in the next few weeks which will more than double the price of beef.
In case you haven’t been to the grocery store lately, there are a lot of empty shelves and have been for a long time.
Wait, I thought the midwestern US was the breadbasket of the world ....
Oh, wait.
Well said..may our flag wave until our king returns us to Eden
https://rumble.com/vwd2iv-requiem-for-ukraine-and-the-world.html
https://rumble.com/vwuncj-the-hard-truth.html
“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....”
If not already, rotate the gas and add one oz. per gallon of gas stabilizer. It will keep the gas fresh for up to two years. I like Seafoam Brand as both a fuel system cleaner and stabilizer.
Just make sure you have arms to protect all that.
Trump would be on this
The Biden horror is in place. The charlatans in the white house have no connection to common America - comfortably smug they have gamed the system and will steal the next election and their power is enshrined
Sounds like me and Mr sneakers. Two full freezers and lots of rice, pasta, dry potatoes, canned meats and tuna, seeds, etc. Mr S already started some seeds. This year in the garden, we are going to plant only the stuff we know we really want and will eat. No experimenting with stuff this year. Bought a dehydrator and will be drying frozen vegetables.
I got tired or adding stabilizer and rotating gasoline each year.
I bought a hybrid (gasoline/propane) generator and converted to propane. Last year I used propane that I bought for Y2K...it lasts forever.
I live in hurricane alley.
The US can outproduce anyone if the government would just get out of the way.
During the Depression of the 1930s we had so much food that FDR ordered tens of thousands of beef and hogs destroyed to get the price up.
Yet people were starving because there was no jobs to earn money to buy beef. Yet the government refused to give the slaughtered beef and hogs to the poor. Those meat animals had to be buried.
The following link is for Nebraska at that time. It was the same all over the US.
https://livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/crops_17.html
That was during the old school market driven times. With gubmint regulations, price controls, regulated allotments, the classic demand and supply model is broken.
I have been to the store ‘’Cowgirl’’. Nearly everyday and while the shelves are stocked beef prices are through the roof.
There’s all you want; if you want to pay through the nose.
After everything this pack of shifty weasels have been lying though their corroded teeth about I’m not buying ANY of the bs.
None of it.
My son works at a Food City meat department and he is saying they are still being short loaded 60% on meat and chicken of any kind is scarce.
And now this story of birds dying in the mid-west
Hope we can still eat them
Russia May Ban Wheat, Rye, Barley And Corn Exports Until June 30
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4046624/posts
House brand pasta has already been scarce, recently.
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Not just house brands. I’ve been seeing those shelves cleaned regularly at 2 Walmarts and my local regional chain. Last time was a couple of weeks ago in a Walmart of a town of 25k. My husband does a lot of the shopping and it struck him to see maybe 3 boxes of small elbows on a long, 1/3 of the aisle, 5-tier shelving unit.I think a lot of folks opt for pasta, rice & beans with canned soup for storage.
I have nearly 40# of rice and 10 or more of beans.
We have only so much room and it is full up, dry and frozen. We discussed a 3rd freezer, but are still undecided. We have about 15 cu feet of freezer space and I rotate regularly. I could take out the 10 pound bag of flour since it’s been in long enough to kill off anything and I need that room for a batch of soup next week & also need to plan for Fall harvest of veggies. Dehydrating/powdering is going to be my main method this year.I can do a lot with a little meat, rice and powdered veggies, if necessary.
2 old people do not eat a whole lot. If I was still feeding a working man &/or teens & kids, I’d likely go for the 3rd freezer.
We all do what we can.
Pray.
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