They'll survive by getting almost double of what they got last year for soybeans.
Posted on 06/16/2022 4:09:59 AM PDT by markomalley
A Lehigh County farmer recently called Kyle Kotzmoyer and said something like “I’ve got a tractor hooked up to my corn planter out here, no diesel fuel, and I can’t afford to get any.”
Kotzmoyer, who recalled the conversation Tuesday, said he responded to the request for advice with a joke.
Kotzmoyer, who recalled the conversation Tuesday, said he responded to the request for advice with a joke.
That’s about all he could do, he said, because the crushing reality of record diesel fuel prices is pushing farmers to the brink and may affect food availability.
“We have reached that point to where it is very close to being a sinking ship,” Kotzmoyer, a legislative affairs specialist for the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, testified to state lawmakers Tuesday. “We are teetering on the edge right now.”
(Excerpt) Read more at mcall.com ...
It’s all going according to plan (see: Cloward-Piven).
Corporate farms are safe. Unlimited monies.
Family owned farms and ranches, not so much. When a 50 lb bag of laying pellets went from $8/ bag to now $25/ bag how can the family enterprise survive.
To begin the “cure”, stop all food deliveries to the district of communists!
Isn’t that part of the plan?
Government picking winners and losers. Taking care of the big corporations No more independent anything.
The Left wants electric everything. Doesn’t matter that it’s unreliable or less efficient. They’re running things, with the help of Republicans, so strangle the oil industry and make refining almost impossible so they can try and force folks into EVs.
No more mean tweets, though.
Bolsheviks gotta Bolshevik!
They'll survive by getting almost double of what they got last year for soybeans.
I know the manager at our local Publix grocery store. She would get mad because the same ppl showed up at 6 am and wait in line for the store to open and then rush in to get TP. Day after day. She thought their garages must be full of it.
She always told me, there was NOT a shortage (at least for this area), but since every hyper reactive moron was buying this up like there was no tomorrow, there was a “shortage”.
Some were so aggressive she set aside an early morning for seniors only to shop one day a week. I think this was a corporate thing, I’m not sure.
There was even a time period they sold more than they normally do - again, because of the hoarders.
Now imagine the panic if enough fear gets cranked up over food.
The solution: the bum gun
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Used all over SE Asia and the middle east.
Some folks think food prices are bad now. The “bad now” prices are for food that was grown before the Ukraine War stuff, pre-Russia sanctions. The extra costs are mostly a reflection of increased transport and some processing costs.
The crops going in the ground now are being planted using much more expensive diesel to run tractors, will be fertilized using much more expensive fertilizer, and harvested with even more expensive diesel.
Livestock prices haven’t really even hit a peak yet, and that’s assuming this current stupidity will end once they realize how bad it is. Beef prices will probably even dip for a moment around early winter as ranchers try to trim their herds to save on costs. Lots of family ranches are going to struggle to avoid selling to mega corporations. Next year at this time, its not going to be unreasonable to expect $8/lb for hamburger, and fewer and fewer companies controlling more and more of the food supply.
Farming while important is only 2% of GDP.
It will be severe panic and there will be blood spilled a lot.TP shortage on steroids. Even worse if the fast food places can’t get supplied.
“Could a food shortage be coming?”
Count on it. Certainly most of the upper level of food quality is going to suffer, priced beyond the reach of most. The lower level of nutrition, things like pasta and bread, are going to impact the nutritional quality in a number of ways, and hunger will once more begin to stalk the land. Growing your own food, in gardens, is simply out of the question for many families, because they have no access to the land to grow those vegetables and graze animals for slaughter, not that those skills are really well developed anyway. This is not like the Depression years of the 1930’s, when most of the population still had roots in an agricultural past, and without those skills, these people are virtually helpless.
Urban “rabbits” once went “meow”. Urban “pigs” once went “woof, woof”.
“It’s all going according to plan (see: Cloward-Piven).”
This is going much farther than Cloward-Piven. They are shooting for complete destruction.
I get it. But when will they rollout and present the replacement system?
“she set aside an early morning for seniors only to shop one day a week”
A lot of stores around here did that—with limits on quantities.
Since I am a senior and a morning person I thought it was great—and the stores were mostly empty with no kids running around—another plus.
That’s like saying: “Energy production, while important, is less than 6% of GDP.”
Do you even think about all the other industries — even all of human civilization — that rely on these?
Slated for March 2023
Supply and demand. As some framers go under others make more money and buy the fallow land. Lather, rinse repeat.
As long as there is plenty of barely, hops and yeast we will be fine.
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