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Farm grade diesel shortage could threaten new crops
Farm grade diesel shortage could threaten new crops DOVER, Fla. — A tax-free diesel fuel shortage for farmers in Central Florida is threatening crops and could send prices for agriculture commodities skyrocketing by early next year. Farmers are reporting a shortage of diesel fuel from suppliers at the port, which is leading them to fuel […]
The Food Crisis Of 2023 Is Going To Be Far Worse Than Most People Would Dare To Imagine
The Food Crisis Of 2023 Is Going To Be Far Worse Than Most People Would Dare To Imagine I am trying to sound the alarm about this as loudly as I can. The global food crisis just continues to intensify, and things are going to get really bad in 2023. As you will see below, […]
Look Before you Eat
Look Before you Eat Preface. This post is a book review of Be Wilson’s Swindled. From Poison Sweets to Counterfeit Coffee – The Dark History of the Food Cheats. With likely world peak oil production in 2018, the price of food will rise relentlessly, since fossil fuels are used to fertilize, plant, harvest, distribute, package, cook, and refrigerate […]
Food security – life is changing
Food security – life is changing It seems hard to comprehend, living as we do in the twenty first century, that food security would ever be something we would need to concern ourselves with. But it’s a thing now. It’s a sign of the times when a cargo ship full of grain sailing across the […]
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 4
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 4 How Much Food Can You Fit? It’s a long article. I’m trying to distract you with cute Corgi pictures. A Word on Self-Sufficiency Let’s talk about the big question of the year: “How much do I grow to feed my family for the year?” It gets […]
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 3
The Year in Which I Grow Our Food Pt. 3 Planning to Plant the Plot Deer Tongue and Romaine lettuces When do we plant? Vegetable gardens in this country are largely seen as a “summer thing”, and I believe this is because the crops people associate with vegetable gardens are mainly summer growing. These are […]
Global Food Supply Crises May Worsen Due to Poor US Harvest
Farmer harvests corn in Princeton, Ind., on Oct. 11, 2021. (Scott Olson/Getty Images) Global Food Supply Crises May Worsen Due to Poor US Harvest U.S. agriculture has been facing a poor harvest this year, aggravating the global food supply crisis, industry executives have said. The supply of food worldwide has been tight, since Russia’s war in Ukraine cut […]
Europe’s Natural Gas Shortage Could Trigger A Food Crisis
Europe’s Natural Gas Shortage Could Trigger A Food Crisis Energy crises impact nearly every aspect of our lives, and that is particularly true of food markets, with food production next year expected to be severely threatened. About 70 percent of the cost of fertilizer production is solely the price of natural gas, and as the […]
Why are farmers in the Netherlands protesting?
Why are farmers in the Netherlands protesting? Blamed for much of the climate crisis, biodiversity decline, water pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, farmers and farming are at the centre of a worldwide debate which is only gaining heat. This argument has come to a head in the Netherlands, where farmers have been involved in high-conflict […]
Wave Of European Ammonia Plant Closures To Exacerbate Food Crisis
Wave Of European Ammonia Plant Closures To Exacerbate Food Crisis A wave of European ammonia-plant shutdowns due to soaring natural gas prices has resulted in a devastating fertilizer crunch, worsening by the week, with as much as 70% of production offline. “Ammonia prices, though volatile, rose 15% in 3Q and could climb higher as Europe’s […]
Water Worries and Drought Tolerant Plants
Image by author Water Worries and Drought Tolerant Plants A Summer Update from Shipka This summer has been incredibly hot and dry, and even some of the older and more established trees have looked under strain. With increasing periods of hot and dry weather and pressure on both the mains water supply and our perennial […]
European Corn Yields Expected To Plunge Amid Worst Drought In 500 Years
European Corn Yields Expected To Plunge Amid Worst Drought In 500 Years Besides the news of record high electricity prices, a troubling new crop failure report about Europe’s upcoming harvest was published Monday. The bloc’s Monitoring Agricultural Resources forecasted corn yields could drop by nearly a fifth due to a devastating drought, according to Bloomberg. Before […]
A Horrifying Drought Is Causing Widespread Crop Failures Throughout The United States And Europe
A Horrifying Drought Is Causing Widespread Crop Failures Throughout The United States And Europe We really are reaching a major crisis point. Thanks to soaring fertilizer prices, insane weather patterns and the war in Ukraine, global food supplies have been getting tighter and tighter. So we really needed a banner year for agricultural production in both […]
We Should Aspire to be Peasants
We Should Aspire to be Peasants Painting by Johann Ludwig Ernst Morgenstern – Public Domain Rising food prices — as the USDA has forecast for 2022 — may seem like a good thing for farmers. After all, who wouldn’t like to see some more cash? Farmers, like everyone else, have been through a lot lately. Years of stagnant […]
