{"id":62902,"date":"2022-06-16T06:07:36","date_gmt":"2022-06-16T11:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62902"},"modified":"2022-06-16T06:07:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T11:07:36","slug":"we-are-teetering-on-the-edge-food-shortage-worries-mount-as-pa-farms-crushed-by-record-diesel-prices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=62902","title":{"rendered":"“We Are Teetering On The Edge”: Food Shortage Worries Mount As PA Farms “Crushed” By Record Diesel Prices"},"content":{"rendered":"
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“We Are Teetering On The Edge”: Food Shortage Worries Mount As PA Farms “Crushed” By Record Diesel Prices<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/header>\n
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There’s nothing like the sweet smell of Building Back Better…<\/em><\/p>\n

Pennsylvania farmers are being “crushed” by the record cost of diesel – so much so, that questions about a food crisis are starting to loom,\u00a0the\u00a0Morning Call reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n

One farmer in Lehigh County is quoted as saying:\u00a0\u201cI\u2019ve got a tractor hooked up to my corn planter out here, no diesel fuel, and I can\u2019t afford to get any.\u201d<\/p>\n

That farmer was airing his gripes to\u00a0Kyle Kotzmoyer,\u00a0a legislative affairs specialist for the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau. Kotzmoyer then turned around and testified to state lawmakers:\u00a0\u201cWe have reached that point to where it is very close to being a sinking ship. We are teetering on the edge right now.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The situation looks as though it will continue to push food prices higher, after the government reported that\u00a0food prices in May were 10.1% higher than last year.<\/p>\n

Kotzmoyer lamented the possibility of a food shortage:\u00a0\u201cOne, if they can\u2019t afford to put it in the ground. Or, two, if they can\u2019t afford to take it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

The PA average for diesel is now $6.19 per gallon, up about 75% from a year ago<\/strong>, the report notes. It is a\u00a0\u201chuge, huge expense\u201d for farmers, Kotzmoyer told state legislators.<\/p>\n

One farmer who works on about 3,500 acres burns through about 2,000 gallons of diesel per month, he said.\u00a0\u201cIf the farmers cannot get crops out of the ground, then there is not food on the shelves.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“We Are Teetering On The Edge”: Food Shortage Worries Mount As PA Farms “Crushed” By Record Diesel Prices There’s nothing like the sweet smell of Building Back Better… Pennsylvania farmers are being “crushed” by the record cost of diesel – so much so, that questions about a food crisis are starting to loom,\u00a0the\u00a0Morning Call reported. […]<\/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":[2,3,7],"tags":[32971,299,1912,13351,827,4318],"class_list":["post-62902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-energy-2","category-survival-2","tag-diesel-prices","tag-farming","tag-food-production","tag-price-inflation","tag-united-states","tag-zerohedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62902","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=62902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62903,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62902\/revisions\/62903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}