The Great Reset, Phase II: Mass-starvation
This is really bad.
Joe did that!
You’ll enjoy your tube of cricket paste or else.
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).
All according to plan.
Like during the great depression, we are burning half of our corn in cars!
Progress - they used locomotives then.
My farm doesn’t use much in the way of inputs, but the farms around mine do. I worry for my neighbors.
More people are going to die because of lockdowns and mandates than this fancy Wuhan flu.
Reading the comments so far, I think many miss the point of the article :
If farmers are having to stop farming in OTHER countries, then that is a direct impact on the US food supply, because the US is a net importer of food ; it does not matter what US agricultural policies are for farms in the US.
The Haber Process breaking N2 bonds and then recombining into NH4 takes lots of energy.
You can’t do it with solar, wind or good intentions power.
““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.”
Farming is a business. Like any business, there are unforeseen circumstances - some you may be able to overcome, some may seal your demise.
High Debt limits options and flexibility of many a business.
Debt, I suspect, is what will cause most farms to fail in the final analysis.
“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......
10 acre farm. Who knew?