Posted on 01/30/2022 5:24:54 PM PST by RomanSoldier19
From South America’s avocado, corn and coffee farms to Southeast Asia’s plantations of coconuts and oil palms, high fertilizer prices are weighing on farmers across the developing world, making it much costlier to cultivate and forcing many to cut back on production.
That means grocery bills could go up even more in 2022, following a year in which global food prices rose to decade highs. An uptick would exacerbate hunger—already acute in some parts of the world because of pandemic-linked job losses—and thwart efforts by politicians and central bankers to subdue inflation.
“Farms are failing and many people are not growing,” said 61-year-old Rodrigo Fierro, who produces avocados, tangerines and oranges on his 10-acre farm in central Colombia. He has seen fertilizer prices double in recent months, he said.
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The Great Reset, Phase II: Mass-starvation
ok, fertilizer doubled but sale prices doubled also. have to look at the whole system.
This is really bad.
Joe did that!
You’ll enjoy your tube of cricket paste or else.
Fertilizer price increases have out raced the increases in commodity prices. Between herbicide and fertilizer, applying at pre Covid levels puts you under water.
I give it another year before we’re talking dead people.
If food prices are up then we can end the government program that pays farmers to not grow food (ostensibly to artificially inflate food prices to help farmers survive as a business).
I just enjoyed a steak from the beef we butchered in April of ‘20 and have another processed one to pick up next week. We should make it a bit longer.
My wife suggested we not have a garden this year since we have so much still canned and in the freezer. It takes about a bag of fertilizer with the cow manure and chicken litter each year to grow a good garden before it burns up in
the summer heat.
I had intended to fallow the pastures this summer anyway. It is time for that.
This will probably pass but when who knows? Lots of fear porn going around.
All according to plan.
China and gates buying up large amounts of land. agenda 21 now 30 is real and the great reset will bring this about, remember we all laughed at alex jones, as nutty as he is, he was screaming about bildeberg, chem trails, and agenda 21 for many years
Like during the great depression, we are burning half of our corn in cars!
Progress - they used locomotives then.
Why not do just half the garden space? Let half go fallow and then the other half next year.
If you do none and use up your supplies, will you make it until the next harvest?
And do you really think fertilizer prices are going to correct?
Considering the shape the world is in, this is not the year I would consider not gardening at all.
We are fortunate in that the year we bought our house, 2019, the previous owners had already mostly moved and so did not do a garden so the garden plot had its year of rest. The following year, I only planted a little, it was so out of control and weed grown.
Last year we did well and we put in raised beds and really made an effort to condition the soil with anything we can get our hands on. I have two compost bins going and we are scoping out sources for a load of manure.
Just before Christmas I stopped at Wally world and checked out their gardening section. They had some great deals on fertilizer as they were clearing out seasonal items making space for Christmas stuff. I picked up several bags.
My farm doesn’t use much in the way of inputs, but the farms around mine do. I worry for my neighbors.
If you decide not to grow a garden, will you be planting cover crops to rejuvenate the soil? And if so, can I ask which ones you’ve decided on?
More people are going to die because of lockdowns and mandates than this fancy Wuhan flu.
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