Posted on 04/14/2020 5:43:43 AM PDT by Java4Jay
For many farmers, it’s more cost-effective to let crops rot in the fields. They can’t afford to harvest it if there is no market for it, and food banks can’t cover the full cost of labor.
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where are the states????
Our good President needs to put a fix to this right away. Some crops are ready for harvest.
That is called a supply chain breakdown.
If you can’t process and transport milk, it doesn’t matter how many milking cows you got.
Or the consumer demand for it.
Georgia and Florida are two other states in the news for plowing under good crops.
All FReepers!
The time is now to prepare for food shortages in the Summer and Fall.
If you don’t have a garden in yet, NOW IS THE TIME!
If you don’t have a store of canned food yet, NOW IS THE TIME!
If you don’t have a supply shelf stable dried food yet, NOW IS THE TIME!
Get these things while you can. It is one thing to live without toilet paper... You can’t live without food.
You’re looking at the stark reality of how supply chains work, and how charities like food banks often are on shaky ground by (unwittingly) taking their benefactors for granted.
From the article:
“They can’t afford to harvest it if there is no market for it,”
Not sure where “supply chain breakdown” came from.
Correct. Also, sales to restaurants are down so much that farmers are just throwing the milk and produce away.
Related is to use food (corn) to make petrol while others in the world are starving. Stop this madness.
Makes no sense. Large dairy farms are mechanized. Truckers are still hauling goods. People can still go to the grocery store.
Careful. Some over excited Freepers will start attacking you, claiming you are "Inciting Hysteria!"
Between production and distribution, you must have a need for the product.
>> “But who is going to pick it?” she asked.
Gosh, that’s confusing - who could possibly do that? Certainly not the “We’s be hongry” folks lining up for the free food.
It sounds like the latter days of Rome.
2. Truckers transport those X gallons of milk to commercial dairies.
3. Dairies deliver those X gallons of processed milk to restaurants.
4. Restaurants donate their unused portion — say, 10% of X — to food banks.
Look again at that process and see what happens. The only reason the food banks can even exist is that they’re getting a small portion of the milk supply for free. If the restaurants are shut down and they don’t buy the milk in the first place, then there’s no reason for the farmer to ship it to the dairy and for the dairy to produce it. The farm, in effect, becomes the equivalent of a Ford or Honda plant that produces 1,000 cars per week that can’t be sent to dealerships because nobody is buying cars.
People are going to start getting hungry for chicken, pork, and beef with all the processing plants shutting down.
Last month there was no local monthly pork sale because the stores couldn’t get any pork.
It looks like there won’t be one this month either.
There just wasn’t enough food to feed the 215 families who showed up. It was twice the number of families that needed food a week earlier, she said.
But that same week, on a farm just 20 minutes away, at least two fields of fresh lettuce were disced back into the ground, left to rot as the restaurants that buy the produce struggle to stay afloat.
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