The supply chain was an intricate web of vertical and horizontal interdependencies. It has been broken into a million pieces. Institutional memory has been erased throughout.
The industrial age is over, never to return.
The climate change hysterics have succeeded in returning us to the stone age.
Two-thirds of the food production that normally occurs is wiped out for next year.
Unthinkably bad times are inevitable.
Unfortunately, I think you are absolutely correct. We have an economy based on race and equity. Capability and experience do not matter anymore due to PC upper management in major corporations. The ability to accomplish tasks has largely been lost.
You get it.
Unthinkably bad times are inevitable.
Here we are, in October, wheat planting time is a month away. Very low rainfall for 2022. The moisture to plant is not there right now.
Wheat prices are incredibly high. It is a global crop, weather is cyclical (not man made). Cattle prices are down somewhat, pastures are in poor conditions in general.
I'm putting finishing touches on remodel of my house at the farm. It is 75 years old, my grand parents built it in 1946. Some of our land has been in the family in this county since 1889. Most of it is rented to a cousin. We intend to keep it. I'm 74. My father died in March of 2021 at 94. My brother died a few weeks ago.
You may be correct, but I think Texas will go on. DC ("District of Corruption")? Who knows?