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Food shortages as the energy crisis grows and supply chains break?
Food shortages as the energy crisis grows and supply chains break? Preface. This is a long preface followed by two articles about how supply chains and complex tractors may be affected by energy shortages and consequent supply chain failures in the future.Which we’re already seeing as massive numbers of ships sit offshore waiting to be […]
“Fertilizer Is Out Of Control” – US Farmers Ditch Corn For Soy To Save On Costs
“Fertilizer Is Out Of Control” – US Farmers Ditch Corn For Soy To Save On Costs Fertilizer prices are at record highs following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine puts massive pressure on American farmers to transition to crops that need less fertilizer. A Bloomberg survey found that farmers will plant 2 million more acres of soybeans and about […]
Farmers on the Brink
Farmers on the Brink “Farming looks mighty easy when your plow is a pencil and you’re a thousand miles from the corn field.” – Dwight D. Eisenhower It was a spooky time to be out at sea off the US East Coast on Halloween in 1991. A strong storm system over the maritime provinces in […]
Food shortages as the energy crisis grows and supply chains break?
Food shortages as the energy crisis grows and supply chains break? Preface. This is a long preface followed by two articles about how supply chains and complex tractors may be affected by energy shortages and consequent supply chain failures in the future.Which we’re already seeing as massive numbers of ships sit offshore waiting to be […]
Product shortage at Okanagan grocery stores, due to highway closures
Product shortage at Okanagan grocery stores, due to highway closures Save On Foods was without produce Tuesday morning It’s been a busy two days at FreshCo in Kelowna. Customers are stocking up on various products after access between the Lower Mainland and the rest of B.C. was cut off due to floods and mudslides. As […]
Marti’s Corner – 37
Marti’s Corner – 37 * Here is the email I got from USU Extension this week: PLAN Meet with your family or household and discuss the disasters that are most likely to occur. Review basic actions for each situation and decide on a family meeting place. Decide how you’ll contact each other if separated. PREPARE […]
Before They Were An Inconvenience, But Now The Shortages Are Really Beginning To Sting
Before They Were An Inconvenience, But Now The Shortages Are Really Beginning To Sting Have you noticed that store shelves are starting to get emptier and emptier? During the panic shopping that was sparked by the start of the COVID pandemic in 2020, there were very intense shortages of certain items, but those shortages did […]
“Quite Alarming” – UK Energy Crisis Sparks Fresh Chaos For Food Suppliers
“Quite Alarming” – UK Energy Crisis Sparks Fresh Chaos For Food Suppliers Last week Fertilizer producer CF Industries Holdings Inc suspended operations at two UK plants because of soaring natural gas prices. As a result, these fertilizer plants that make carbon dioxide as a byproduct are in sudden shortages and are rippling through the UK food sector, […]
UK Supermarket Boss Says Shortages at Worst Level He Has Seen
A truck driver makes a milk delivery to a supermarket in London on Aug. 3, 2021. (Tolga Akmen / AFP via Getty Images) UK Supermarket Boss Says Shortages at Worst Level He Has Seen A leading supermarket boss has warned that current UK food shortages are at a “worse level” than he has ever seen. The food supply chain has […]
‘Preppers’ Quietly Stock Up for the ‘Perfect Storm’
Travis Maddox, a prepper and producer of “The Prepared Homestead” on YouTube, feeds his turkeys and chickens. (Courtesy Travis Maddox) US FEATURES ‘Preppers’ Quietly Stock Up for the ‘Perfect Storm’ A crippling ice storm that left Travis Maddox and thousands of other Missouri residents without power in 2007 had an “almost apocalyptic feel to it.” […]
World’s Food Supplies In Jeopardy Amid Climate Disasters
World’s Food Supplies In Jeopardy Amid Climate Disasters Devastating floods in Germany, China, Turkey, and India. Scorching hot weather in the Western U.S. and Canada. Worst frost in two decades across Brazil. These recent weather phenomena are rapidly intensifying and threaten further food inflation already at decade highs. We documented last week Brazil had some of the […]
What To Expect Next in the Coming Food Shortage
What To Expect Next in the Coming Food Shortage “Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.” – Thomas Jefferson. It used to be that when a drought, flood, or frost occurred, we could see clearly the shortages that it would create. As a […]
The Next 6 Months: What To Expect
The Next 6 Months: What To Expect The price of corn is up thirty-two percent in the first quarter of this year. Beef is up seventeen percent. The price of chicken is up twenty-five percent in just the last two months. You have probably noticed the price of gasoline up forty-one percent as well. Still, […]
UK: Food Shortages ‘Inevitable’ – “The real food crisis for food supplies starts now.”
UK: Food Shortages ‘Inevitable’ – “The real food crisis for food supplies starts now.” Industry experts are warning that food shortages are “inevitable” in the UK as crops rot without reaching retail. Imports of beef from the EU are to be cut 85% under Brexit, leaving Brits asking “Where’s the beef?” and seeing absurdly high […]
Prepare for Planned Starvation
Prepare for Planned Starvation
