{"id":46087,"date":"2019-05-13T12:41:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-13T17:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46087"},"modified":"2019-05-13T12:41:27","modified_gmt":"2019-05-13T17:41:27","slug":"are-we-heading-into-a-food-shortage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=46087","title":{"rendered":"Are we Heading into a Food Shortage?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/markets-by-sector\/agriculture\/are-we-heading-into-a-food-shortage\/\">Are we Heading into a Food Shortage?<\/a>\u00a0<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Wheat-Crop-Flooded.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Wheat-Crop-Flooded.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87567\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>COMMENT:<\/strong>&nbsp;Mr. Armstrong, I find it really distasteful that you laid out events well in advance and then everyone copies you without ever giving you credit. There are articles now appearing about the coming food shortage. The degree of plagiarism is unbelievable. It must be dishearting. I certainly begin to distrust these people and organizations for they certainly even know who you are.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>LMS<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>REPLY<\/strong>: That is life. They are trying to sell something so they have to pretend to do the research to make money by getting people to read. The flooding wiped out stockpiles. Now the planting season is already behind on schedule because of the weather. As I have warned, the computer has been forecasting colder winters and shorter-summers. The planting season will decline and thus the danger of a serious food shortage as we head into 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Agrics-Bankruptcy.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>I previously wrote about the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/markets-by-sector\/agriculture\/farmers-going-bankrupt-prelude-to-a-boom\/\"><strong>soaring bankruptcies<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;among farmers and combine this with the flooding that continues, I believe the computer will be on point. I also wrote about how this year, the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/markets-by-sector\/agriculture\/russias-wheat-crop-fails\/\"><strong>Russian wheat crop failed<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;has failed because of the bitter cold with even April coming in as the coldest in more than 140 years. To make matters worse, our computer warns that the weather will not improve. The next 4 years will put even more financial pressure farmers. Even in Australia, the drought is sending the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.armstrongeconomics.com\/international-news\/australia-oceania\/australia-drought-sends-kangaroos-invading-cities\/\"><strong>&nbsp;\u201croos\u201d<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;invading the cities and they like to feed precisely during Rush Hour.&nbsp; The drought is so bad in&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/Farmers in South Australia have been forced to feed sheep with onions that were rejected for commercial sale due to a shortage of feed.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Australia<\/strong><\/a>, that animals are dying for lack of feed crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CRNCSH-Q-5-12-2019.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/d33wjekvz3zs1a.cloudfront.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/CRNCSH-Q-5-12-2019.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-87568\"\/><\/a><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are we Heading into a Food Shortage?\u00a0 COMMENT:&nbsp;Mr. Armstrong, I find it really distasteful that you laid out events well in advance and then everyone copies you without ever giving you credit. There are articles now appearing about the coming food shortage. The degree of plagiarism is unbelievable. It must be dishearting. I certainly begin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[20,25855,220,299,1001,1912],"class_list":["post-46087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-survival-2","tag-agriculture","tag-crop-failures","tag-drought","tag-farming","tag-flooding","tag-food-production"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46088,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46087\/revisions\/46088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}