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Only 32 percent of the winter wheat crop in the United States received a “good” or “excellent” rating from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), new reports show. While this represents a slight increase of two points compared to a week ago, the figure is far behind 2021’s 53 percent rating, illustrating just how bad America’s wheat crop is due to persistent drought conditions in many areas. “Winter wheat rated as fair was 32 percent and winter wheat rated poor to very poor was 36 percent,” reported the Longview News-Journal. “Winter wheat headed was 5 percent, 1 point less than...

Our food chain is very delicate & it's ALL interconnected! This issue may NOW be resolving itself by March 23rd?-but this whole conversation sheds more light to how dependent we really are! See ya on the farm & thanks for watching! 😊 14:51 minutes

The pandemic has inspired many people to make big life changes. For Ashley Manning of Charlotte, North Carolina, COVID-19 was an opportunity to leave her job in pharmaceutical sales to become a stay-at-home mom. She even used her extra time at home to launch a small business, “Pretty Things by A.E. Manning.” The self-taught florist has always loved working with flowers and seeing the joy they bring to their recipients. She hoped to make just enough money to justify a babysitter while she worked, but the business turned out to be a bigger hit than she imagined. For years, she...

For centuries, farmers have bred livestock and crops for desirable traits such as faster growth, better taste, and resistance to disease. Now, a new kind of rancher is following in their footsteps: mealworm breeders. Last week, France-based Ÿnsect announced it will spend nearly $5 million on the world’s first large-scale initiative to use state-of-the-art genetics for breeding beetle larvae and other insects that can be used as animal feed, fertilizer—and even food for people. “We’re talking about accelerating the ability to use the genomes of millions of insects” for selective breeding, says insect geneticist Christine Picard of Indiana University–Purdue University...

Brazil, Argentina and Paraguay, the three major agricultural producers in South America, are currently experiencing a prolonged period of drought and low water levels in their main rivers. This is severely impacting harvests, as well as river transport of important summer crops, with maize and soybeans the main casualties. Although conditions may yet improve, the grain harvests of 2021 and 2022 could result in losses that will impact the economies of three countries, though experts say the potential magnitude is still difficult to foresee. For soy, South America’s star grain, projections for possible losses caused by adverse weather in the...

Joe Biden is quickly becoming known as ‘The Inflation President’ as prices rise on just about everything that Americans need to survive, including food. And what’s more, prices are not expected to drop anytime soon because this administration is simply not competent. The Epoch Times reports that due to ever-rising costs on small to mid-sized farms, food prices are set to skyrocket at least through 2022 and likely beyond, meaning wage gains that Americans experienced throughout the Trump administration are quickly dissipating as they pay more at the grocery store, the gas pump and in monthly energy and clothing expenses....

Asking for a friend (truly). A friend of mine's 87 year old Dad* received 2 doses of PFE in early 2021--he is in a senior living facility that required it and he trusted the science. Well since getting jabbed, he has had a number of recent appearing aggressive melanomas--daughter thinks his immune system has been compromised by the vax (and there is data emerging to support that theory). So any new information you have found to mitigate the damaging effects of the gene therapy and/or build up his immune system would be much appreciated. *He has been in good health...

Great point made by Computing Forever in this Millenniyule podcast: The digital identity “vaccine passports” are essentially a new form of citizenship that is required to participate in society — or the new society that is being built around us, at least. However, unlike an apartheid system, where the un-“vaccinated” would be granted access to segregated areas of society and kept separate from the “vaccinated,” we are instead treated as non-citizens and totally removed from society all together. So, the official social credit system (whenever it arrives) will function as an endless citizenship exam for the New World Order, with...

We have told you from the beginning that the true numbers on everything from actual COVID deaths from the virus, to actual numbers of deaths and adverse reactions from the COVID vaccine have been fudged and fraudulent from the get-go. Now an FDA report bears witness to the fact that, over time, none of the vaccines provide any more protection than the unvaccinated have, and significantly increase your risk of strokes and blood clots. Just yesterday, a woman wrote to me asking for prayer for her neighbor who just had his leg amputated after developing blood clots after receiving the...

Millions of people who have refused to get an experimental mRNA vaccine may soon be forced to consume the gene therapy in their food. Researchers at the University of California were awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation developing technology that infuses experimental mRNA Covid-19 vaccines into spinach, lettuce and other edible plants. The team of nanobiotechnology experts is currently working on successfully delivering DNA containing mRNA BioNTech technology into chloroplasts, the part of the plants that instruct its cells’ DNA to replicate the vaccine material. The researchers are tasked with demonstrating the genetically modified plants can produce...

“An apple a day keeps the doctor away.“ 19th Century proverb In the age of COVID, all of us need to watch our health closer than ever before. It’s not so much COVID itself that is my main concern, it’s keeping clear of the official “solutions” (i.e.: vaccines), and keeping out of hospitals, where the “cure” can be much worse than the “disease.” In order to best ensure that we avoid the major obstacles, we need to do something novel to many: take responsibility for our own health. Good health–at its root–is pretty simple. And yet, it remains elusive to...

Just noticed a local farmer with a roadside stand here in upstate NY has removed his prominently placed Marxist signs. He had them up the entire time during President Trump's term: Black Lives Matter, "In Our America Love Trumps Hate, There Is No Such Thing As An Illegal Human..." I noticed his "Endless War" sign any down shortly after realizing that Prez Trump had the most peaceful foreign policy than Demonrat administrations. When the fraudulent 2020 election took place, he immediately put up a hand written sign "You're Fired." This area is mostly conservative so his woke "organic" veg and...

There are many misconceptions about preppers, such as they’re weird hermits who hoard supplies. But nothing could be farther from the truth. Compared to non-preppers, preppers are simply people who take the time to prepare for disasters before anything bad happens. And if you’re a prepper worried about your non-prepper friends, consider teaching them how to prep so they can take care of themselves when disaster strikes. Are you prepared to teach your friends how to prep? Before SHTF, whether it’s a natural disaster or a long-term power outage, preppers probably already have a sizeable stockpile of supplies along with...

On September 11, 2001, the Taliban ruled Afghanistan with an iron fist and harbored terrorists that would kill thousands of Americans and start a 20-year war there and another long war in Iraq, wars in which thousands more Americans would be killed.. On September 11, 2021, thanks to dementia-ridden Joe Biden and his staff of leftist loons, the Taliban once again rule the roost in Kabul, after an enormous expenditure of American blood and treasure, and play host to al-Qaida and a reconstituted ISIS to spread terror, tyranny and death around the world. While the “woke” Chief of Staff Gen....

Sacramento -- The California legislature is set to return to the state Capitol from summer recess next Monday to make final decisions on more than a dozen bills harmful to California communities. The California Family Council opposes 17 bills threatening the unborn, parental rights, freedom of speech and religion, and encourage racism, drug abuse, sex trafficking, and assisted suicide. Earlier in the year, the legislature killed bills promoting religious liberty and providing sex education transparency, and pushed off until next year a bill to protect children from sex abusers. Most of the 17 bills CFC is opposing made it through...

It looks that our favorite billionaire globalist George Soros is pushing Los Angeles mayor Eric Garcetti’s proposal to pay illegal aliens tax-funded money during the COVID-19 pandemic. Garcetti serves on the Leadership Board of the Mayors Migration Council, a Soros-funded global organization that promotes Garcetti’s scheme of paying illegal immigrants cash. Garcetti is collaborating with Patrick Gaspard, the president of George Soros’ Open Society Foundations, on pro-illegal immigration efforts, as well as with Soros’ activism network to make reparations to black people. Eric Garcetti is a member of the Mayors Migration Council Leadership Board along with seven other current global...

Teddy Roosevelt, Richard Nixon and Margaret Thatcher were outstanding environmentalists. But they made great steps forward for conservation without abandoning the essential human need for freedom. Freedom wedded to good government works. Any sort of PC tyranny will always self destruct.

A massive population of grasshoppers is proliferating in the sweltering American west, where a deep drought has made for ideal conditions for grasshopper eggs to hatch and survive into adulthood. “I can only describe grasshoppers in expletives,” said Richard Nicholson, a cattle rancher in Fort Klamath, a small community in southern Oregon, who once recalled seeing grasshopper bands eat 1,000 acres a day and cover the ground like snow. The insects cause innumerable headaches for farmers and ranchers, competing with cattle for tough-to-find wild forage and costing tens of thousands of dollars in lost crops and associated costs. “They are...

An emergency stockpile can greatly increase your chance of survival if SHTF. But creating a stockpile can easily drain your grocery budget if you’re not careful. Luckily, some of the best foods for stockpiling are extremely cheap, so you can buy them in quantities enough to last you several months. Here are some examples of cheap foods to stockpile: Rice – Rice is a staple food worldwide. It is also a versatile ingredient as it can be paired with various foods or cooked with various ingredients. When stored in an airtight container, rice keeps for six months. Rice is also...

The Mississippi Department of Agriculture said farmers are experiencing a total loss for some crops after the flooding conditions swept farmlands. This loss will affect the economy but hopefully not Mississippi’s food production. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” Agriculture Commissioner Andy Gipson said. “It was just torrential. It looked like a tropical storm.” Gipson went to north Mississippi this week to observe the impacted farmlands. “They look like lakes where there was cotton and soybeans. And there are even cornfields that are totally underwater,” he said. Boliver County is one of the hardest-hit areas and those farmers are said...