Posted on 04/30/2022 2:13:17 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
Ukraine has limited exports of sunflower oil, wheat, oats and cattle in an attempt to protect its war-torn economy. Russia has banned sales of fertilizer, sugar and grains to other nations.
Indonesia, which produces more than half the world’s palm oil, has halted outgoing shipments. Turkey has stopped exports of butter, beef, lamb, goats, maize and vegetable oils.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has unleashed a new wave of protectionism as governments, desperate to secure food and other commodities for their citizens amid shortages and rising prices, erect new barriers to stop exports at their borders.
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The measures are often well intended. But like the panic-buying that stripped grocery store shelves at various moments of the pandemic, the current wave of protectionism will only compound the problems that governments are trying to mitigate, trade experts warn.
Export restrictions are making grains, oils, meat and fertilizer — already at record prices — more expensive and even harder to come by. That is placing an even greater burden on the world’s poor, who are paying an ever-larger share of their income for food, increasing the risk of social unrest in poorer countries struggling with food insecurity.
Since the beginning of the year, countries have imposed a total of 47 export curbs on food and fertilizers — with 43 of those put in place since the invasion of Ukraine in late February, according to tracking by Simon Evenett, a professor of international trade and economic development at the University of St. Gallen.
“Before the invasion, there’s a very small number of attempts to try and restrict exports of food and fertilizers,” Evenett said. “After the invasion you see a huge uptick.”
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I get what you’re saying. I use sugar because I’m a sugar junkie basically I use it for blooming yeast to make bread‘s and Tea and things like that. While everybody else here at the house thinks I’m Looney Tunes for trying to stash food they all look at the beans and lentils etc. like I’m crazy and They’re “We’re not gonna eat that stuff” look on their face we’ll see how hungry they get...
Then there’s the water argument from them. Until one day a on a Memorial Weekend the well pump died. I had been stashing water in plastic 1.75L bottles and they had been asking “why” was I doing it ? The second day the 1.75’s were gone and We started to hauling water from the new Dog Park too flush the toilet. Then it started to sink in...
Don’t forgot SALT. Something essential and something you can’t make. I also stock a lot of tea since that is very important to me and coffee (I buy the freeze-dried bricks at Aldi) for hubby.
the water company out here-a small one that is really just a big communal well-has had problems for a couple years now-especially in Winter when their lines froze all the way to the wellhead-we were all out of water for weeks-but there are a couple of places to buy water-even in large volume- bring your own containers in your truck bed or trailer-within a few miles, because it is a common problem out here-we are all used to it, most of us keep 50-100 gallons of water on hand-or have a neighbor who has their own well we can get water from, and we can capture rainwater to flush toilets-but I can just imagine the shock of your family when there was suddenly no running water-the same thing happened to my now-grown cub during the really bad winter 2 years ago-her city-raised husband was going hysterical, but she knew what to do, having lived off grid with her dad and i as a child...
I just never developed a taste for sweet stuff-I was raised in a remote area in a family of ranchers/ naturalists, and I have always followed that lifestyle-my 1st hubby was a naturalist, too-from a similar background-we lived off-grid in a remote area like this one for a couple of years when our cub was little, we were just out of college and we didn’t have much money-It was one of the happiest times of my life-I’m working toward going Galt/off grid as soon as business picks up enough to afford enough acreage for livestock.
At least more people would notice.
I always keep plenty of salt-it will be needed if TSHTF-it has a lot of uses besides food prep and preservation -if you want to tan anything, you need salt for most methods...
Under primitive, emergency, or even just unfavorable conditions it is a lot easier to turn rice into something edible than it is for flour.
Boil water, add rice. It doesn't even have to be safe drinking water -- just boil it for a while longer. No electricity, only fire.
The bricks last a long time.
I would never buy some huge bag of flour like that but just was using that as an example of how a bulk wheat product was still fairly inexpensive. I love rice. I think a huge 40 lb bag of calrose was in the $30’s.
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" Ukraine has limited exports of sunflower oil, wheat, oats and cattle in an attempt to protect its war-torn economy.
Russia has banned sales of fertilizer, sugar and grains to other nations."
"Indonesia, which produces more than half the world’s palm oil, has halted outgoing shipments.
Turkey has stopped exports of butter, beef, lamb, goats, maize and vegetable oils."
"Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has unleashed a new wave of protectionism as governments, desperate to secure food and other commodities for their citizens
amid shortages and rising prices, erect new barriers to stop exports at their borders. "
(My Comment): These embargoes and the involvements of individual governments limiting exports is nothing new,
however these government controls are being used to control the economies, the national food supplies, as well as to control the populations.
Remember that all these controls began years ago under the regime and direction of the Socialist WEF (World Economic Forum),
and are designed for wold-wide economic and political domination, unlimited international migration, and elimination of all national sovereignty.
These socialist goals are being accomplished by wars, rumors of wars, food scarcity, civil unrest, timely release of viral plagues and insect pestilence,
as well as through corrupt government officials who no longer represent their populations.
According to the USDA, we are a major importer of fertilizer:
“The United States is a major importer and dependent on foreign fertilizer and is the second or third top importer for each of the three major components of fertilizer. The top producers of the major components of fertilizer include China, Russia, Canada and Morocco, with Belarus also providing a significant share of potash.”
The high prices of oil and natural gas (thanks in part to JRB, Jr.) will still make a rough go of it with fertilizer in this country, even though we’re not dependent on imports.
Well I was being sarcastic. It’s been completely nonstop at breakneck speed, especially in the last 10 to 15 years.
Now it’s degrading by the hour
Aside from salt, potassium is critically important.
Swanson vitamins sell potassium chloride in bottles as a single ingredient powder.
Most potassium supplements are only 99 mg cause the government restricts it to that. They are afraid of people OD- ing on it I guess.
But the powder allows for a higher dose than taking a dozen pills to get what you need. You can make your own electrolyte solution with that and salt.
I agree. They went scorched earth before the 2020 election. The evil they have slung has been fast and furious since then.
I agree in general, with your general premise that America will see decline in food productivity based on limitations and embargoes of fertilizers.
Nonetheless, world-wide the availability and especially, the cost of food will steadily increase thanks to the 'Globalist Economy' that our leaders have encouraged and embraced.
We are in competition with the rest of the world, especially in the time of food shortages.
Continuous supply chain disruption is something that we have never been faced with as a nation, except for the decade of the "Dust Bowl" era of the 30's.
How did the nation and technology respond ?
It gave us reliable and safer automotive transportation built upon cheap 'fossil fuels', thus establishing the reliable supply chain that we used to consider normal.
There is nothing 'normal' about this food security shortage, nor supply chain crisis, being brought on by governments and corporations.
It is purposely contrived, and aggravated by inflation.
“Nonetheless, world-wide the availability and especially, the cost of food will steadily increase thanks to the ‘Globalist Economy’ that our leaders have encouraged and embraced. “
Do you want to revise and extend that? The availability of food worldwide will increase??
“governments, desperate to secure food and other commodities for their citizens amid shortages and rising prices”
Except for our government!
".. the cost of food will steadily increase thanks to the ‘Globalist Economy’.."
More competition for fewer food resources
Exactly true !
Buyden even shows up late for his press conferences (!)
The major complaint regarding supplies sent to Ukraine
is that supplies are ' too little, and too late'
At least now were are sending something more useful than bandages and sleeping bags
as was done during the Obungler regime.
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