Ah, point of order.
He with the food makes the rules.
There are some asian countries that got lots of rice but it’s the US that feeds the world. They would really have to pound the dollar down to out bid Americans for our own wheat.
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One bushel of corn or wheat for ....say......10,000 bbls of oil. Problem solved.
On the upside, if there’s a food shortage are we still paying US farmers not to grow crops?
Even under adverse conditions (cold wet spring forcing very late planting, cool summer, late maturing, flooding during harvest time) the corn crop was predicted to be the second largest ever and the soy bean crop - the largest ever. Haven't heard how that panned out, but I think its close. Haven't tracked the wheat, but its price is quite low now indicating a more than adequate supply.
Gee, if there’s not enough food to go around, perhaps it will be time to show the world who’s the butch, and who’s the b*tch. . .
Nevermind, I forgot Doctor Utopia is running the place right now, he’ll give it all away and force us to pay triple. . .
Oh no another disaster in the making. I guess Al Gore will be out making a new movie and cashing in on the food credits.
Seems like somebody just read Ehrlich and wrote an article about it.
We’ve been hearing this crap since the ‘70s.
end the ethonol mandate for gasoline NOW
Don’t forget the production of ethanol, which has caused a shift of food production from people to fuel.
Thank heavens the US can produce more food than it can consume. (Remember, in the 1930s depression the government bought food and destroyed it because of over production.)
Thank God Rhodesia can feed all of Africa! All that is left is Europe and Asia!
Oh, wait...
ObamaCare provides free treatment for malnutrition.
I dunno. It’s damn hard to find people who have money to buy food but cant do so.
“Specifically, the USDA has declared half the counties in the Midwest to be primary disaster areas, including 274 counties in the last 30 days alone.”
In the last 30 days?! Isn’t this winter? What crop is growing in the winter?
I’m pretty well “crisis-ed out” & don’t find this very believable. But no doubt Obama will find a way to utilize it.
Land and sea shipping business is dying rapidly in the background. When they go under, the fleets are mothballed and unable to be re-activated easily.
All US grain is effectively transported on 2 rail lines.
A failed harvest is the least of our problems (and that is likely given the solar minimum we're in).
Get fat while you can.
We are culling out the dairy herds out here in California. Too much milk. Agriculture in the US is still operating in the realms of weak markets and over production.
Luckily, we’ll all be enslaved by the Goa’uld before the food crisis hits...
Yup. He posted this on MarketSkeptics a few days ago.
I stocked up with abt 20lbs of dried goods, and a bunch more canned stuff today.
Had a yummy lunch (of the type I might eat if the SHTF) of pan fried egg noodles, with home grown Oregano, covered with beef gravy and peppercorns.
So I stock up on food and then the SHTF and all the yokels who spent their money on HDTV and Ipods come up the hill...
Life ain’t fair, I tell ya!!
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I’ve been stockpiling cannes goods and also making sure I have lots of flour onhand. Looks like I might want to get busy and make sure I have more than I do now.
Mr. deCarbonnel of The MarketSkeptic seems to have an agenda. I followed some of the links and he seems to cite a lot of individual farm disaster stories which in total do not really prove his point. Then he is touting investment in Russian land, which may be a good idea for someone with deep pockets, but is surely a crapshoot given the governments’ ability/propensity to confiscate whenever it looks like someone is going to make some money.