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Post by dirtdiva on Apr 21, 2022 4:30:19 GMT 10
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Post by spatial on Apr 21, 2022 5:18:03 GMT 10
I am getting lots of news feeds of global disruption to food supplies, especially fertiliser crop loses in Russia and Ukraine, countries now stockpiling food and refusing export. Drought in US and China while Australia and southern Africa floods. The perfect storm of events is how many are describing it. UN food program predictions that they will have to take food from hungry people to give to the starving. It is like a dam wall showing cracks then suddenly breaks, we are all living on last season food crop, things are about to go crazy. theeconomiccollapseblog.com/things-are-bad-now-but-you-aint-seen-nothing-yet/
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Post by spatial on Apr 21, 2022 5:23:27 GMT 10
My next door neighbour runs fertiliser to farmers was saying last year prices was $900 a tonne now $1,500 a tonne and diesel prices sky-rocketed it is going to hurt farming processing and distribution. Farm labour in Australia is also a major headache for producers.
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Post by dirtdiva on Apr 21, 2022 7:02:59 GMT 10
I am getting lots of news feeds of global disruption to food supplies, especially fertiliser crop loses in Russia and Ukraine, countries now stockpiling food and refusing export. Drought in US and China while Australia and southern Africa floods. The perfect storm of events is how many are describing it. UN food program predictions that they will have to take food from hungry people to give to the starving. It is like a dam wall showing cracks then suddenly breaks, we are all living on last season food crop, things are about to go crazy. theeconomiccollapseblog.com/things-are-bad-now-but-you-aint-seen-nothing-yet/Spatial I am afraid you are probably correct. With all the articles listed above I did not list high fuel costs and the major drought right now in parts of the U.S. Water shortages worsening in some areas that use the Platte and Colorado River. Along with drought comes the increased chances of wildfires that inevitably coincide with drought. And let us not forget that we still have spring tornado season to look forward to. And just about the time those crops come in then the fall Hurricane season kicks off. That is a lot of shat in the "could bite you in the butt" column...
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Post by Tim Horton on Apr 21, 2022 12:22:35 GMT 10
Up here with higher transportation costs to start with.. Shortages, prices and all seems to be a set up for a rough year to come..
Water in the Colorado river system has been a "problem" among users for 100 or more years it seems.. For us the Frasier and other smaller river systems in the lower main land will likely be a point of contention....
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Post by Joey on Apr 21, 2022 15:33:06 GMT 10
China certainly didn't help our farmers when they locked up their Urea for themselves, but that can also be pushed back on big business here shutting down our factories in favour of cheap China import urea as well as government green tape on the manufacturing sector. The same can be said for the fuel issue, reg/green tape and company greed have us closing down our refineries to become almost reliant on fuel imports which one small hiccup can bring the entire country to a standstill.
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Post by spatial on Apr 21, 2022 15:57:04 GMT 10
News feeds about food shortages coming in fast: Chinese farmers now short of inputs to start farming.. Food Crisis Chinacrisiswatch.substack.com/p/the-coming-removal-of-the-mandate?s=rA third of farmers in Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Liaoning report they can’t get the necessary inputs to begin farming. This report from the CCP administrations in those regions comes mere weeks before farmers were due to start planting, meaning they would at best miss the best time to plant - driving down yields - and at worst not be able to plant at all. The later seems likely, given the recent fertilizer shortage brought about by Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The war in Ukraine will have a further impact for China, due to their reliance on roughly 2 million tons of corn from Ukraine each year, most of which is used as livestock feed for China's pig farms. This disruption in corn to Chinese pig farmers comes as demand is increasing after three years of severe cuts due to African Swine Fever resulting in mass culling. Though its entirely possible China isn’t out of the woods yet. Chinese pig farmers are reportedly losing $75 per hog slaughtered, as opposed to a profit of $175 per hog last year. This is extremely significant for Chinese nutritional health, as pork makes up over 60% of the average Chinese meat consumption at ~54 pounds per person per year
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Post by Beno on Apr 21, 2022 17:09:26 GMT 10
Japanese encephalitis is impacting pigs in the Riverina and parts of qld. The meat is still edible but the disease causes stillbirths and abnormalities. Production on affected farms is way down, up to 60%.
People can also be affected and so far the death rate is 25%. 3 out of 11 have died. I believe the risk of transmission by mozzies is relatively low. fFeral pigs have been found to be infected in the NT.
Things are definitely feeling squeezy.
Go buy some more rice.
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Post by dirtdiva on Apr 21, 2022 23:16:36 GMT 10
News feeds about food shortages coming in fast: Chinese farmers now short of inputs to start farming.. Food Crisis Chinacrisiswatch.substack.com/p/the-coming-removal-of-the-mandate?s=rA third of farmers in Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Liaoning report they can’t get the necessary inputs to begin farming. This report from the CCP administrations in those regions comes mere weeks before farmers were due to start planting, meaning they would at best miss the best time to plant - driving down yields - and at worst not be able to plant at all. The later seems likely, given the recent fertilizer shortage brought about by Putin's invasion of Ukraine. The war in Ukraine will have a further impact for China, due to their reliance on roughly 2 million tons of corn from Ukraine each year, most of which is used as livestock feed for China's pig farms. This disruption in corn to Chinese pig farmers comes as demand is increasing after three years of severe cuts due to African Swine Fever resulting in mass culling. Though its entirely possible China isn’t out of the woods yet. Chinese pig farmers are reportedly losing $75 per hog slaughtered, as opposed to a profit of $175 per hog last year. This is extremely significant for Chinese nutritional health, as pork makes up over 60% of the average Chinese meat consumption at ~54 pounds per person per year According to the U S Dept. of Agriculture ( April 12 2022 ) Private exporters reported the sale of 1.02 million tonnes of U.S. corn for delivery to China, almost a repeat of the 1.08 million tonnes of corn sold to China one week earlier. (USDA) americasfarmreport.com/farm-report/white-house-starts-rural-infrastructure-tour-loaded-with-dollar-signs/
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Post by Tim Horton on Apr 22, 2022 5:57:38 GMT 10
person per year According to the U S Dept. of Agriculture ( April 12 2022 ) Private exporters reported the sale of 1.02 million tonnes of U.S. corn for delivery to China, almost a repeat of the 1.08 million tonnes of corn sold to China one week earlier. (USDA)
americasfarmreport.com/farm-report/white-house-starts-rural-infrastructure-tour-loaded-with-dollar-signs/ --- --- My friend in Nebraska US saying by this time of year they usually have 60% of corn acres planted.. This year they have less than 10% planted.. It is not going to be a an easy year it seems..
To a point.. I don't feel sorry for China as the stunts they pulled by not a year or 2 before covid by refusing to buy contracted grain and canola oil from Canada over ...fill in the blank.. political mouthing off reasons... It indeed was a blow for our farmers and ag business, but let China suffer..
My 5 cents of opinion..
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Post by norseman on Apr 22, 2022 6:35:27 GMT 10
The Chinese will just start eating their kids again like they did in the old days. At least they demonstrated some scruples by swapping their kids with the next door neighbour's so they didn't have eating their own kin sitting on their conscience!
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Post by tactile on Apr 22, 2022 16:04:17 GMT 10
Grain, Beef & Milk prices are pretty good at the moment, farmers (the ones I know anyway) are pretty happy (imagine that!), not sure how the end consumers gonna go though...
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Post by frostbite on Apr 22, 2022 16:46:01 GMT 10
The supermarket chains are still putting a drought surcharge on milk, even though half the country is flooded.
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Post by ausprep130 on Apr 22, 2022 17:45:12 GMT 10
The supermarket chains are still putting a drought surcharge on milk, even though half the country is flooded. Shhh. . . . Don't mention it to them. Otherwise they'll remove the drought relief surcharge and replace it with a bigger flood relief surcharge.
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Post by rastus on Apr 22, 2022 18:22:40 GMT 10
There is perhaps a joke to be made somewhere about Bill Gates buying up all that farmland... and then agriculture being turned off and on again like a blue screening PC.
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Post by spatial on Apr 23, 2022 0:00:42 GMT 10
More weirdness for the conspiracy theory guys. Had at least 3 news feeds on the issue. A List Of 16 Major Fires That Have Occurred At Key Food Industry Facilities In The U.S. Since The Start Of 2022 theeconomiccollapseblog.com/a-list-of-16-major-fires-that-have-occurred-at-key-food-industry-facilities-in-the-u-s-since-the-start-of-2022/Can anyone explain why absolutely massive fires just keep erupting again and again at critical facilities all over America? The tragic destruction by fire of the headquarters of Azure Standard in Oregon shocked millions of people, and since that news broke quite a few readers have been reaching out to me about the long string of unusual blazes that we have been witnessing from coast to coast in recent months.
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Post by Beno on Apr 23, 2022 6:55:24 GMT 10
More weirdness for the conspiracy theory guys. Had at least 3 news feeds on the issue. A List Of 16 Major Fires That Have Occurred At Key Food Industry Facilities In The U.S. Since The Start Of 2022 theeconomiccollapseblog.com/a-list-of-16-major-fires-that-have-occurred-at-key-food-industry-facilities-in-the-u-s-since-the-start-of-2022/Can anyone explain why absolutely massive fires just keep erupting again and again at critical facilities all over America? The tragic destruction by fire of the headquarters of Azure Standard in Oregon shocked millions of people, and since that news broke quite a few readers have been reaching out to me about the long string of unusual blazes that we have been witnessing from coast to coast in recent months. 5th column at play? So far i have not heard anything similar hear. It’s not just at food storage facilities either. i read a urea plant went up too.
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Post by tactile on Apr 23, 2022 16:22:11 GMT 10
Few funny fires at Military manufacturing facilities in Russia in the last few days too? Maybe WW3 is going on in the background?
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Post by Joey on Apr 23, 2022 19:20:23 GMT 10
And not to forget, a light plane has just crashed into the General Mills processing factory in Georgia USA yesterday putting it out of action, and another night plane crashed into the Gemstate food processing factory in Idaho on April 14th www.facebook.com/watch?v=971310833575501
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Post by spatial on Apr 23, 2022 19:29:35 GMT 10
Chinas water situation getting desperate. www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/china-verge-major-food-crisis-part-2-waterAt a minimum, a civilization requires 1,700 cubic meters of water per person per year to be considered water secure..... Beijing is currently sitting at 100 cubic meters of fresh water per person per year. Barely seven times the necessary minimum for a person to remain healthy, with the rest stretched thin and endlessly recycled as it eventually becomes useless for any purpose which brings it into contact with humans in any way.....
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