Posted on 03/12/2022 8:03:03 PM PST by Mount Athos
With the elites poking at the Russian bear and trying to get us into World War III but in a way where they think none of us gets hurt, we are now facing food shortages.
That could mean possible monthly grocery costs rising by $1,000.
It’s the beginning of crop planting time. Crops need fertilizer. And through the brilliant mechanisms of globalism, guess where we get a lot of our fertilizer?
Russia. They provide two-thirds of the world’s supply.
And they’re temporarily shutting down their fertilizer exports.
So there’s one more log being added to the out-of-control inflation fire.
“We’re going to get hit on every front, on every expense possible,” Oklahoma farmer Ben Neal told Ingraham, “From fertilizers to fuel to labor, insurance – everything in between [including] our packing supplies.”
Neal’s farm operates on a farm-to-market business model, so he has direct fuel costs for transportation. But every farmer essentially faces the same thing – crops need to be transported to processors and final markets and there are increasing fuel costs to power the trucks, trains, barges and ships that make that happen.
But that’s the harvest. Right now there’s the problem of planting the crops in the first place, with their attendant fertilizer.
Already experiencing inflation, Neal predicts fertilizer will drive his costs up by about 25 to 30 percent, “And I think that will soon be reflected at the grocery stores … on top of what we’re already seeing.
Costs further along the supply chain for processing, packaging, transporting, distributing and general retailing may have their own inflation issues which bump prices beyond the 25-30 percent fertilizer cost increases Neal predicts for his farm.
So with costs for fuel and everything else going up, there’s no telling where prices will end up without Russian fertilizer.
(Excerpt) Read more at westernjournal.com ...
It’s possible to eat good, tasty, healthy food for a fraction of the cost of prepared foods.
I imagine that instead of grilling New York strips, you would braise a chuck roast. You probably don’t drink bottled water or soda pop, or if you do you buy the generic two-liter bottles. Crustless quiche is wonderful, healthy, and CHEAP.
It’s quite easy to save money and eat well.
“My weekly grocery bill for a family of four is under $100” That’s total BS. You either can’t count or you are a liar. $1 per person per meal? Yeah, right!
They are always ten steps ahead of us.
Beans and rice, rice and beans.
My lovely Filipina wife is hoarding bags of rice and cases of spam.
We won’t starve.
The price of chuck roast right now is through the roof!!
My weekly grocery bill for a family of four is under $100.
How much, and what kind of beef does this include? For how many meals?
How much chicken? Ham? Turkey? Pork?
How many dozen eggs? Gallons of milk?
Just to be clear....you’re purchasing 3 meals/day, for 7 days, for a family of four? If not...how many meals/week does this 100.00 buy?
They (today’s chuck roasts) are at least double of the chuck roasts I pressure canned just over a year ago.
25# sacks of rice, that is.
I had a package of boneless skinless thighs in my freezer 5 months I went to buy another package same identical thing at Walmart freezer package 4.22 new package 9.12 INSANE!!!!
Obama/Biden and their Democrats have no intention of
fixing anything. They are deliberately causing these problems
because they hate America and believe Americans deserve
to be punished and ground into the dust.
They are probably hoping for Depression type
conditions and soup lines.
The Dem leadership's psychotic devotion to Left-wing
ideology and its imposition on everyone is their only concern.
I will disagree about the take over of our country.
My thought is that an army of irregulars have crossed our borders.
The chinese were caught sneaking in weapons during clinton’s reign of terror. Has it continued?
Im worried that they are just waiting for a signal to begin a “ red dawn “ scenerio
For us retired folks on fixed incomes, this is a disaster.
“My weekly grocery bill for a family of four is under $100”
I don’t believe it, unless you subsist on beans, potatoes and biscuits.
“That’s total BS. You either can’t count or you are a liar. $1 per person per meal? Yeah, right”!
You’re a jerk and a smart ass. And that’s no lie.
Train wreck, depression, or what ever sometimes it becomes
a reset for the economy, nation, continents, world. Life
goes on and adjustments will be made. True some will be
hurt more than others but people will adapt. JMO
US agriculture is fueled by diesel. Higher diesel fuel prices will be reflected with increased food costs. There are not even prototypes of electric tractors or combines nor any practical large electric trucks. If fossil fuels are to be priced out of existence how will we produce food?
Well wait 10 months instead of five and
the price per month will be the same.
A list of Recessions in the USA over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_recessions_in_the_United_States
For us retired folks on fixed incomes, this is a disaster.
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Well it will make/bring change for sure. Hopefully disaster
will be left out.
Mine is Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam,bacon, eggs, sausage Spam, eggs, sausage, bacon and Spam.
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