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Post by spatial on May 22, 2022 7:14:24 GMT 10
Article on global food shortage and that we are already in a crisis are coming thick and fast from around the glob. ‘We’re in a crisis’: Farmers sound alarm over coming food shortagewww.newsnationnow.com/on-balance-with-leland-vittert/were-in-a-crisis-farmers-sound-alarm-over-coming-food-shortage/NewsNation's Leland Vittert asked one American farmer: "How close are we to the next food crisis?"The answer: "We are in a crisis right now as far as the food chain goes with the farmer in this country," John Boyd Jr., the President of the National Black Farmers Association, said. Boyd points out some farmers are unable to plant because of adverse weather conditions. He said farmers in the Northern Plains haven't been able to get tractors in the fields because of soggy conditions, and the war in Ukraine has knocked out an entire region of food production. He warned, "We're going to see a lot of empty shelves and a lot more high food prices." In his forty-year career as a farmer, Boyd said he never imagined he would be "paying $5.63 for a gallon of diesel fuel, $900 a ton for fertilizer, and all-time high prices for soybean seeds." All of the prices he mentioned are at record highs, pressuring farmers' margins. e said the American people need to wake up to the crisis in the farming industry, adding, "farming isn't Republican or Democratic, it's food, the land is neutral … this is the time the American people need to support the American farmer and put pressure on the Biden administration to put things in place to help farmers."
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Post by rastus on May 24, 2022 17:36:17 GMT 10
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Post by Joey on May 25, 2022 9:20:06 GMT 10
The new labor gumbyment has already confirmed that they will be putting a ban on the live export of sheep very soon, so that's now putting a restriction on overseas food markets that they previously went to for the sake of some wokeness. Sure, it might lead to a bunch of new jobs created in the abattoirs here to process the sheep before they go offshore, but abattoirs are also bleeding staff at the moment and can't seem to find staff.
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Post by dirtdiva on May 30, 2022 1:42:43 GMT 10
US Drought Report US
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Post by dirtdiva on Jun 1, 2022 22:18:02 GMT 10
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Post by Beno on Jun 2, 2022 9:19:08 GMT 10
Relentless. Probably cyberattacks causing equipment to overheat or short out.
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Post by ausprep130 on Jun 2, 2022 9:23:35 GMT 10
Relentless. Probably cyberattacks causing equipment to overheat or short out. Or insurance scams due to rising financial stress
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Post by frostbite on Jun 2, 2022 11:24:41 GMT 10
Let's blame the Russians.
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spatial
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Post by spatial on Jun 16, 2022 18:14:28 GMT 10
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Post by Beno on Jun 16, 2022 18:20:03 GMT 10
I just heard a smithfield plant is shuttering. the plant is the biggest processor of pork in the US and will leave a heap of farmers in the lurch. hmm food crisis and they decide to shut down curiouser and curiouser.
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Post by ausprep130 on Jun 16, 2022 19:45:10 GMT 10
I just heard a smithfield plant is shuttering. the plant is the biggest processor of pork in the US and will leave a heap of farmers in the lurch. hmm food crisis and they decide to shut down curiouser and curiouser. It's also Chinese owned. There's speculation the rest of the plants will close over the coming months/years.
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Post by dirtdiva on Jun 16, 2022 22:26:21 GMT 10
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Post by Tim Horton on Jun 18, 2022 5:14:17 GMT 10
Prop 12 was a ballot initiative passed in 2018 by California voters that requires farmers to give hens, sows, and veal calves certain space requirements. --- --- Sounds like agenda people there got there way again.... 000 000 The state law imposes a sales ban on non-compliant products, including eggs, pork, and veal from out-of-state. --- --- So it appears if the product isn't raised, processed by Kalifornia rules, it can't be sold in Kalifornia ?? Regardless of where it is produced ??
Good... Let there shelves go bare...
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Post by bug on Jun 18, 2022 10:28:35 GMT 10
Prop 12 was a ballot initiative passed in 2018 by California voters that requires farmers to give hens, sows, and veal calves certain space requirements. --- --- Sounds like agenda people there got there way again.... 000 000 The state law imposes a sales ban on non-compliant products, including eggs, pork, and veal from out-of-state. --- --- So it appears if the product isn't raised, processed by Kalifornia rules, it can't be sold in Kalifornia ?? Regardless of where it is produced ?? Good... Let there shelves go bare... Good. The conditions that pigs are raised under are disgusting and cruel. Those who won't allow even a tiny amount of space for the animals to move need to be closed down. In any case, the most ethical form of meat is what you go out and hunt yourself.
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Post by spatial on Jun 22, 2022 13:06:29 GMT 10
Disaster In The Heartland: Wheat Crops In Kansas Are Failing On A Massive Scale, Solar flare warningtheeconomiccollapseblog.com/disaster-in-the-heartland-wheat-crops-in-kansas-are-failing-on-a-massive-scale/"At this point, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is telling us that 41 percent of all wheat in Kansas is in “poor” or “very poor” condition..... To the west in Colorado, projections say nearly one-third of wheat fields won’t produce enough to bother harvesting. In Texas, around three-quarters of the crop will likely be abandoned." "And we are being warned that it could “potentially send an M-class solar flare” directly at us… “Yesterday, sunspot AR3038 was big. Today, it’s enormous,” reads the SpaceWeather.com website. “The fast-growing sunspot has doubled in size in only 24 hours.” The magnetic field associated with the sunspot means it could potentially send an M-class solar flare at Earth—the second-strongest type. However, it is not known whether this will be the case.
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Post by bug on Jun 24, 2022 12:27:30 GMT 10
Of all the high-probability things that can knock us over at short notice, solar flare wins hands down. Up until about the 1940s our society wasn't reliant enough on tech for it to be a massive problem, but we are way past that point now.
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Post by Beno on Jun 24, 2022 19:01:15 GMT 10
Yes but our power grids have evolved since the 40’s too.
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Post by SA Hunter on Jun 24, 2022 20:41:09 GMT 10
Yes but our power grids have evolved since the 40’s too. You don't live in SA!!!
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Post by spatial on Jun 25, 2022 10:10:17 GMT 10
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Post by malewithatail on Jun 25, 2022 10:59:27 GMT 10
I have been collecting and restoring equipment from as far back as ww2. such as generators with mechanical air gap regulators, no electronics to screw up with an emp/cme, and communications equipment and test equipment that uses valves, once again, emp/cme proof. Its only a matter of time folks until one hots us.
Ignorance is temporary, stupidity is permanent.
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