Authored by Mac Slavo via SHTFplan.com,
Trouble is brewing for farmers in the United States located in the “corn belt.” Corn is fed to the animals much of the country consumes, so without it, we are staring a food crisis right in the face.
Corn planting is already behind on schedule. The weather in the United States has made farming difficult as of late, while bankruptcies soar and flooding continues. As the weather in four of the top six states for corn production couples with the skyrocketing number of bankruptcies of American farmers, we could be on the precipice of a food crisis. And to make matters worse, none of the weather is expected to improve, putting even more financial pressure on the already stressed farmers according to the latest Crop Progress report is issued Monday by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), according to an AccuWeather analysis.
The four states significantly behind on schedule are Illinois, Minnesota, Indiana, and South Dakota; and they are expected to remain that way, according to AccuWeathermeteorologists who have been analyzing the data. Those four states combined to produce nearly 40% of the corn in the U.S. If the weather continues a wet pattern through late May, consumer prices could go up this summer. Iowa and Nebraska, the other two states among the top six corn producers, are also behind, albeit, only slightly behind, according to data from the USDA.
“The question will be how much farther it will fall behind the pace,” said AccuWeathersenior meteorologist Jason Nicholls. “It’s about a week behind schedule right now. If it were to go to a week and a half or two weeks, that’s big news. Most of the problems are because of consistent rains, plus there is also rain in the forecast,” Nicholls said. “Of the two key producing states, Iowa isn’t too bad, but Illinois is way off schedule.”
By this time of year, 43% of corn crops would already be planted in Illinois, according to the five-year average provided by the USDA. However, just 9% has been planted so far. Iowa averages 26% of crops planted at this point, and 21% has been planted so far.
Three of the other top corn producers are lagging behind this season so far. Minnesota (2% of corn crops planted by now compared to its five-year average of 24%), Indiana (2% compared to 17%) and South Dakota (0% compared to 17%) are also well off pace. –AccuWeather
“We think one of the weeks in late May will end up being drier, maybe at the end of the month,” Nicholls added. “But the week of May 6-12 looks pretty wet and May 13-19 doesn’t look good either.”
This could be the beginning of what amounts to a food crisis. Although most don’t see a “run on the grocery stores” happening, we’ll see higher prices at the pump (corn is used for ethanol) and less choice at our stores with a higher price tag on those things available.
If you can, now would be a great time to learn to grow your own food or raise your own meet. Obviously, not everyone can own a cow, but if you can grow some vegetables, you’ll be slightly ahead of those who cannot if the food crisis smacks us all upside the heads.
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Just call off the ethanol mandates. Stupid fucking idea anyway. Here in MN, it’s not just that it’s been rainy, it’s that it’s been cold. We’ve only broken above the 60’s a few times this “spring”. So not a lot of evaporation. Makes you wish global warming were real.
This corn is gmo corn only fit for feeding cows and making corn syrup, which of course is the main ingredient in about everything you eat. This corn actually kills you, slowly but surely. It is a waste of land, machinery, fertilizer, and oil. The people that grow this crap are not farmers in a historical sense, but no better than any welfare abuser.
If you feed it to cows you eat it in the beef.
Corn is not a natural food for cows as you well know, but mcdonalds has to have something cheap and fast to fatten up that beef to add to the pink slime.
On a side note, there is an Indian Mound near by and in the museum it had where after the introduction of corn to the local Native population by the Creek Indians there was a noticable more tooth loss/decay in the skeletons than when the same people had a more local nut/food diet.
Well not so fast….. Go to your search engine and key in “how much corn is in storage…..”
The perspective changes…. I am well into keeping things in trim but I do not value the BOOGAAAAH BOOGAAAAH BOOGAAAAH BOOGAAAAH BOOGAAAAH The sky is falling an there is a hole in the dam right below where the wolf is sitting. I didn’t look up how long that would last us if that were all there was to be had…. Probably till next growing season at least.
How much of that corn was in storage in flooded areas?
What’s important to me is how much corn (and other grains and staples and seeds) I have in storage.
I drove by the storage bins in the lowlands the other day and took pictures. Oh. My. God.
That’s when I decided it was time to start looking at the South Dakotas for rainfall. People forget around here that the Missouri River does not start in Missouri. The time it washed all the levees from Cape Giradeau to Cairo into Louisiana (hyperbole alert) they’d plumb forgot about flood warnings. The BIG flood hit in June, after all the rain had stopped here.
But, not up in South Dakota. I hope it stops raining there too.
Artic ice melt = jet stream stalling as it becomes weaker and erratic. Hence, prolonged wet / dry periods. Mother Nature bats last.
and cleanup too….
Here I thought we’d have to give away surplus due to China.
Perfect . We can use it ourselves.
Indeed, eliminate the ethanol bullshit and there will be plenty to go around. Get rid of the sugar tariffs/subsidies, and let foreign sugar take the place of HFCS, and there will be even more to go around. Get GOVERNMENT the hell out of the marketplace and prosperity will abound.
MrLiberty, I agree! If they just HAVE to add something to gas, add fuel from industrial hemp oil.
SamFox
The beginning of the solar minimum. It will get colder. AZ seems to be wetter. The price of grain will make an impact in your life soon.
AZ is not only wetter in my part of the state, but it’s a lot cooler, not hotter. It’s almost mid May & I still have to wear a full set of jammies & socks when I go to bed. Spring has taken longer to ‘spring up’ & get warm in the last 4 years. This the 4th, is taking even longer.
SamFox
I have been driving thru Kansas for days and the flooding is immense. Back through tomorrow, I will post picks if I can figure out how.
Please post those pictures. Thanks!
Yes… please. I”m tracking that water level too. The National Guard are already packing sandbags here.
“Corn planting is already behind on schedule. The weather in the United States has made farming difficult as of late…”
There is no excuse for that level of writing to find it’s way into publication. Pure idiocracy.
I’m starving already
What is worse, I read it the way it should have been written and didn’t notice until you pointed it out.
There’s enough money for Israel’s war-making using American resources though. Nothing else is a crisis as long as that beast is fed.
Corn is bad for you. It is not even food. It causes diabetes. 95% is GMO anyway.
same for canola
Then there is the destruction of most land race corn in Mexico because of Monsatanno.
SamFox
“…prices could go up.”
Corn fear porn.
I have some fresh popped!
Great video, Mary Christine.
I recently read a book titled “Twilight of Abundance”, subtitled “Why Life in the 21st Century will be Nasty, Brutish, and Short”. Somebody on this forum recommended it. Now reading the book for the second time. Miss a lot the first time I read a book.
Recommend that you get a copy and read it. Your library can get a copy for you on inter-library loan. You only pay the $2.50 shipping to you and the $2.50 shipping back.
Also reading “Cold Times, Preparing for the Mini Ice Age”. The information and presentation nearly scared the shit out of me. Fortunately for me, I am one of the pucker people. There are two kinds of people in this world, divided by their reaction to intense fear: some people pucker up, and some unfortunates loosen up, so that they shit all over themselves. I consider it a real blessing to be a pucker person.
We Shall Live in Interesting Times,
I saw your post after I posted below.
All kidding aside…I have read ‘Cold Times’ and three other books and I have gone long on sprouts.
Sprouts reminds me of the time I went long on gold and silver in 99…that’s one reason I can buy all the sprouts I want. Buying sprouts now may be one of the reasons I can eat one day during 1 – 7 in my other post.
I have gone long (25 years – starting in 2008 to recently) on all kinds of stored food and I have no plans to live anywhere near the expiration date.
A lot of my ‘pucker factor’ is for the two generations under me.
I’m giving away #10 cans of LDS beans as parting gifts. I’m working on heirloom seed storage.
LDS = Latter Day Saints?
Been into sprouts since the 70’s. Amazing easy to grow foods…ANYWHERE!
Even in an urban apartment in the Rotten Apple with Golden Horde Zombies filling the lobby and stairs growling and waving their useless EBT cards in the air. You can grow sprouts while stacking the furniture in front of the door during:
1. A Solar Minimum
2. The 4th Turning
3. TSHTF
4. The Tribulation
5. Civil War 2.
6. All of the above
7. Or your just hungry and want inexpensive super nutritious food you can grow on your own.
If I told you how many buckets of sprouts I have stored I’d have to kill you…and I live on a farm.
I love my meat and I love my sprouts. Carbs….not so much…they make thicker (I’m already a ‘husky’ aging fire plug, but… dogs love me).
How to EASILY Sprout Beans & Seeds in a Jar
Check this out too;
https://www.trueleafmarket.com/collections/micro-greens-planting-seed?msclkid=27df263588e91ac58edd7ae2c217ff79&utm_source=bing&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=Microgreens&utm_term=non-gmo+microgreens+seed&utm_content=Non-GMO+Microgreens+Seeds
MicroGreens can also be grown at home on your kitchen counter; they have an intense flavor and high nutritional value that exceeds that of sprouts and baby greens. Being harvested so early in their growth cycle, they create very tender, flavorful stems and leaves, which are superb in salads, on hors d’oeuvres, on sandwiches, or as a powerful additive garnish. As a bonus, many MicroGreens can be easily grown from seed and ready for eating within a week. If you are just getting started, you might want to check out one of our MicroGreen starter kits or other MicroGreen supplies.
DUNG….I saw you looking down her blouse in that last segment…yea…Mygirl saw it too…and don’t tell her you were looking at her cross.
(Just kidding…not trying to start any SPROUT SHIT here…but you two are entertaining).
Dude,
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Donkey,
I got your six!
I have to check me emails. ?
Mark, you’re always teaching me something. I just read your email. I got your 6 right back at ya.
Mark,
Was it you who grows garlic? If so, do you have any tips? Am trying it for the first time and would rather have a harvest than a learning experience (haha). Thanks so much.
niebo,
It wasn’t, but I remember the posts and they were good.
Hopefully whoever posted them will come back. It is on my garden wish list.
However, as a side bar I take odorless garlic in pill form every day, and I keep 5 or 6 bottles in the over the counter pill stash.
My wife cooks with it every chance she gets.
I’m 69 and two years ago I was experiencing high blood pressure (never, ever had a problem before) and my doctor wanted me to start a daily dose of some frigg’in pill with 11 side effects. (Like I need more ‘side effects’ with the kinks already in my hose???)
I lost 5-7 pounds, stopped using the salt shaker, and brought in Mrs. Dash or used nothing…plus took odorless garlic daily.
Got a list off the internet of foods to avoid in relation to high blood pressure and foods to eat and loosely followed it. (Was surprised pistachios reduces BP, I love’em and now they are my go to snack).
Took the top number down from 165 to 150 down to 130 to 140 and kept it there.
Now… he wants me to go down to 125. I laughed and said: “Sure Doc, just prescribe me a time machine to the 60’s…I’ll go back to the future and do it”.
I have not tried the odorless but eat/cook with a fair amount of raw and, well, I don’t have to worry about vampires and have only been bitten by one mosquito this year so far, so there is that benefit. I did not know that it also helped reduce bp, that’s a great bonus for something that tastes so good. Thanks so much!!
As some say… “It’s good shit mun.”
USE GARLIC FOR HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE RELIEF
Taking garlic has an abundance of health benefits. You can especially use garlic for high blood pressure symptoms.
OK…that’s it…who in the TBP world down voted an innocent garlic recommendation????
With back up documentation.
I’m calling you out you humorless snot!!!
Chard daggers nose to nose!
Garlic is also a natural antibiotic, so definitely worth growing and having powdered garlic in the BOB.
Garlic actually keeps your blood pressure in normal range, whether you have high BP or low BP.
Try any herbal tea with hibiscus flower in it. One or two cups per day. Any of the Celestial Seasoning teas that have the word “Zinger” in the name. All of the “Zinger” teas are foul tasting, but the “Lemon Zinger” is the most tolerable. There are 20 tea bags in a pack, and a pack costs between $2.50 and $3.75, depending on where you buy it.
Hibiscus flower has been tested in trials and is reputed to lower blood pressure about 20 percent.
According to what I read, the human body needs salt, but taking refined salt disturbs the proper ratio of minerals in the blood serum. Again according to what I read, sea salt contains sodium, magnesium, and calcium in a ration very close to what the human blood should contain.
You are very correct, We Shall Live, based on my own reading and research. Pink Himalayan salt is one of the best, filled with minerals your body needs.
Garlic is good stuff. Softnecks are wonderful for my neck of the woods and they are the bane of fruit tree pests. Can’t go wrong growing them understory and spraying beneficial nematodes beforehand for great results.
Great heirloom varieties from Filaree Garlic Farm. St. Helens is delicious!
Only tricky part about it with permaculture techniques is to keep it away from white rot. While apple trees love mycelium, I had to learn the hard way that garlic does not like hugelkultur unless the logs have had a chance to “marinate” a bit.
I’ve never found out the difference between soft-neck and hard-neck garlic. Many recommend soft-neck but I don’t know why.
Hardneck looks cooler, is more cold-hardy, and is really (from what I hear) what the gourmet chefs target. Softneck does better down South, stores for longer, and heirloom varieties are IMHO just as delicious as anything hardneck. Then again I’m not vying for Top Chef…I just want tasty morsels that serve multiple purposes.
Thanks for that explanation. I’m in the South so now I now why it’s recommended.
Dont know where you are, but plant in fall for a spring crop. Once the greens die pull them up and enjoy. In NH at least. Down here in VA now, can I move here? it is awesome!!
South Ky. Yes, Virginia is awesome, and yes, the south would be glad to have you.
Sorry, he’s needed up here in the Granite State. There’s only a few of us left.
niebo and HSF, thanks, truly, it means alot, wow.
One more thing on harvesting garlic. Do not try to harvest it after a good rain or wet period. You will just pull the vegetation away from the bulb and leave the bulb in the ground not to be found. The ones left will regrow, but much smaller. Still taste great though.
Also, when scapes come up in late spring/early summer (curly stalks bearing the flower) cut them off before they blossom, while they are still pointy. Then the plant’s energy will not be used in flowering and in theory remain with the bulbs. Use the scapes in soups, stir fries, make pesto with them, etc.
we grow the cold hardy hardneck garlic. Not much to it except making sure you’ve got some wood ash in the soil, a nice straw bed to keep down weeds, and planting on Columbus Day, traditional up here. We’re about two weeks away from harvesting the scapes and then when they straighten up we pull the garlic, dry them, bunch them and hang them in the barn to harden. Bing, bang, boom. Nothing better for viruses and respiratory infections and of course it makes sure no insects mess with you when you;re working outside.
You want any other kind of details, email me.
My Aunt Martha called it rocambole.
https://www.gourmetgarlicgardens.com/rocambole.html
I think the TBP member who posted about growing garlic is Articles of Confederation.
Yes it is good stuff. I believe the only thing I can’t eat under my fruit trees are the daffodils, LOL. Crazy thing is I have had to use a lot less kaolin clay/Surround as well, now that the guilds are settling in. We shall see once the damn tent caterpillars are in season here, though.
YAH BUT… this depends on reliable industrial ag. supplies of LOTS of seed annually, seed which ain’t that cheap even today, much less tomorrow. I have not heard of any sprout-eaters planting out stock to guarantee their own future seed supplies (pounds and pounds’ worth per year), as opposed to relying on the same fragile supply systems subject to just as many potential disruptions as any other commercial food product.
I’ve seen ten thousand sites talking about how to grow the things.. haven’t come across a site yet that talks about how to propagate them and put large amounts of seed by on a recurring basis.
Purchasing a bunch of seed is no doubt a good stop-gap, but not a long-term response. Really the most sustainable ag. would seem to me to be perennial-based.
Also, in a SHTF situation, there are a lot of other free ways to get edible greens. What you are going to be needing the most are fats, protein and (maybe) carb calories.
The whole micro-green / fresh salad craze is just the latest confirmation that humans are actively compelled to create the maximum amount of energy waste. There is no way any of these lettuces, etc. have a positive energy (caloric) return. I have serious doubts as to any of the annuals I sow indoors and baby until I can set them out. I feel I really am just doing it as a LARP.
Bubbles..
It doesn’t take much land to grow spring wheat and barley, red beans and raddish if you’re just after sprouting seeds and next year’s planting. Raddish because they have a nice tangy bite. 5 gallon pails from an heirloom seed co. Will go a long way. Don’t believe that nonsense about having to plow a foot deep. Just rototil and broadcast with a handheld spreader real thick to crowd out weeds. Buy a cycle like the one on the commie flag and a corrundum sharpening stick from tractor supply. It’ll be work but so what. Keep your ground tilled ahead of time in case this is the year it happens and there’s no more gas. Look for Gene Lodgsons books and articles he did for the old Mother Earth News on small scale grain growing.
“Just rototill..” With what gasoline? Rented one of those beasts and got 1/10th of a 20’x20′ plot for potatoes done before it conked out and wouldn’t restart. Lugging it around nearly gave me a hernia.
Tilling ain’t so good for the soil life, either, I hear.
Yes, planting with a pointy stick is pretty much the speed I am talking about!!
Bubbles..
Did you read what I said about before there is no more gas. Get a spade. Who told you rototilling is bad for soil health. Hunger is bad for your health. Get a better tiller than what you rented. You sound like someone who just wants to fukkkin argue. Going forward? Do you really think we are going to have anything to hunt after 6 months?
I have one of these Italian jobs:
No, there won’t be anything to hunt. I’m not *only* arguing.. I’m just trying to come to terms realistically with what can be relied upon over the long term, as a mental exercise.
Rototilling destroys soil-dwelling critters, micro-organisms and mycelia which bring nutrients to plant roots. You can get a short burst of some nutrients as these things die off when exposed to sunlight, UV, air and so forth. Tilling the soil is why even the most primitive forms of agriculture eventually desertify an area.
https://www.themodernhomestead.us/article/Excessive+Tillage.html
Look up anything to do with “soil food web”.
Even the USDA is getting on board, with no-till seed drills (extremely expensive for small operations. ‘tho).
Chubby,
I till but I also:
1. Use free manure from a neighbor
2. Use leaf compost I have trucked in once a year. The spot they dump it on I till then I leave 3 or four inches and that’s how I have extended my garden. I also wheelbarrow it in to the established garden.
3. Let my 8 to 10 chickens in the garden when not growing, early Nov. to spring planting. They cause some disruption of soil life as noted in the article below but only in the top couple of inches. The damage they do cause is quickly repaired, because the chicken shit boosts soil life.
4. (This is from the article below and I do it as well).
Use permanent beds and paths. A key strategy for protecting soil structure is to grow in wide permanent beds and restrict foot traffic to the pathways avoiding compaction in the growing areas and to plant as closely as possible in the beds. Close planting shades the soil surface, which benefits both soil life and plants by conserving moisture and moderating temperature extremes.
You raise some good points. You’ll like this if you haven’t already read it:
https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/8-steps-to-make-better-garden-soil-zmaz07jjzsel
That all sounds great. Wish I had some of those resources.. working on it….
agree!
Rabbit poop is better than chicken poop, in my opinion.
Mark, I see you use (edit) leaf compost. I read a book that said dried leaves, shredded and aged, is the best medium for growing plants. Is that your assessment as well? I’ve been thinking about using this method in my square-foot garden, which is all I have at this point.
I’ve also been told that growing garlic around the edge of your garden will help keep the critters out. Do you agree with that?
Vixen Vic,
Yes.
Sorry, I just picked this up, family illness out of town.
Bubbles..
Is it tilling or bad practices that ruin the soil. The farms we lived on in central Jersey were tilled for 200 years and were still renowned for the finest tasting tomatoes and sweet corn we grew for the N.Y. and Philly markets. In the late 50’s they were forced by economics to move to chemical based agribusiness operations and the soil was quickly depleted of everything that made it so special. Now it’s pure monocropping. BTW, USDA moving to no till is based on heavy doses of herbicides. It has nothing to do with what’s good for the land.
New Jersey’s great advantage was that it was the terminal moraine of the last glaciation. All of the topsoils that the glaciers scraped off of the northern arboreal forests were deposited on top of the Atlantic coastal plain, that vast well drained bed of sand that served as the perfect matrix for the deposits. New Jersey used to mine topsoil for sale it had it was so deep.
Any tilling that goes beneath the living layer of tilth disturbs the microbial lifeforms that make up most of the beneficial strata. If you are constantly adding composted manure, carbon in the form of woodchips or other decaying matter, then the opposite is true.
It is almost never solely a single practice that causes harms, it is the long term, multiple abuses of the soil that render it sterile.
HSF and Bubbles…
I was typing on my cellphone so didn’t get into details. You are both correct about tilling if we aren’t replenishing and rotating.
I was just north of 6 flags Great Misadventure and by some miracle our little farm and the others on our side of the road are still there. All the others are nothing but Yuppie Eye Pollution. Odly, a classmate runs the 12 acre truck farm right next to ours as an organic produce farm with roadside stand for all the N.Y. retirees across the road.
We had 1,000 layers with replacements bringing it to 1,500 chickens supplying manure. It’s a hot manure so we traded bushell for bushell with the Dairy across the road. Everyone had mixed farms there and manured along with planting Rye in the fall to plow under before planting. Our locale also grew some of the finest potatoes anywhere. We kept a 3 titted jersey for milk like almost everyone else. A few hogs etc. In spring when they were plowing next to school the sweet smell of that soil gave us kids spring fever so bad the teachers had their hands full.
We left when I was 12 and when I went back in the 70’s I was shocked to see the Agribusiness farming takeover and the fact that the soil had no smell at all in spring shocked me. Rachael Carson’s silent spring came to mind.
We farmed organically out of necessity, or economics. When the big chicken farms and Agri Dairies took over we all went out of business. Free Range Eggs weren’t selling in the 60’s. Dad sold out and moved us to the city where he promptly died and I became a two bit gang banger to keep me and my sisters safe and life went to hell for us all. So it wasn’t just soil that was killed back then. Along came Free Sex and Free War with LBJ’s Guns n Butter welfare and here we are in a country as sterile and devoid of inner life as the soil we corrupted.
Sorry for the rant. Just got off an a tangent.
Right here in the midst of it all you pop in and flat out say it.
“We left when I was 12 and when I went back in the 70’s I was shocked to see the Agribusiness farming takeover and the fact that the soil had no smell at all in spring shocked me. Rachael Carson’s silent spring came to mind.
We farmed organically out of necessity, or economics. When the big chicken farms and Agri Dairies took over we all went out of business. Free Range Eggs weren’t selling in the 60’s. Dad sold out and moved us to the city where he promptly died and I became a two bit gang banger to keep me and my sisters safe and life went to hell for us all. So it wasn’t just soil that was killed back then. Along came Free Sex and Free War with LBJ’s Guns n Butter welfare and here we are in a country as sterile and devoid of inner life as the soil we corrupted.”
My father refused to play ball with any of it. I saw a man who stood up against it all and survived to laugh in the fucking turtle’s face.
As I will.
Fleabaggs, I renew my invitation to you should TEOTWAWKI arrive and you got nowhere else to go.
I’ll appoint one of the “others” to keep an eye on you.
I just finished chatting with two local leaders of the communities wherein I was trained up in the way of the Lord. They both were in the first high school class of segregated students in 1964 here who realize what happened in the farming INDUSTRY.
Folks, when things become an INDUSTRY, they become corporate. Corporate is NOT a good thing.
And, by the way? The Flat Stucky escort brigade from my hometown says they are blowing the Mississippi River Bridges to keep you assholes OUT.
So, if they get Flat Stucky to New Hampshire from the Alamo, Admin will get his “cut.” But it might be at the expense of you monkeys here who think a cured raccoon pelt smells bad.
Great rant.
If the soil starts out rich and deep, you may not notice the decline but, with tillage, it’s happening. Those other bad modern practices only add to the problem.
Only a couple of civilizations managed not to destroy their land base *before* pesticides and herbicides had even been developed, I think: China, because of assiduous humanure replenishment, and Egypt, because of the natural replenishment of soil brought yearly by the Nile river.
You are right about the USDA apparently using this new understanding in ambiguous ways (encouraging more herbicides). Industrial ag. will collapse, anyway, because of energy constraints, sooner rather than later (10 fossil-fuel calories estimated to produce one food calorie in the industrial system).
Chubby,
I have a 1992 Murray I bought used in 2012 and have had one minor repair I did myself.
It has tilled 7 60′ X 40′ gardens I rake into mound rows.
So far one of the best machines I have ever owned.
Chubby,
When TSHTF here are 6 HIGH PROTEIN SPROUTS that you can have in your stash, hand, preps, home, and then in your empty stomach…with no YAH BUT…
All due respect… your last paragraph is wrong. I’m not talking about ‘lettuces’.
Like I said I have been sprouting (off and on) since the 70’s.
After the Petulant One was reelected to finish U.S. off I put a couple of hundred pounds of sprouts away and may do more if given the time.
Sprouting is fun, easy, cheap, nutritious…and one day could make all the difference in-between an empty belly and a full one.
As far as”
“Also, in a SHTF situation, there are a lot of other free ways to get edible greens”.
Here is a way to have PROTEIN growing in your condo while the starving EBT Zombies have their faces pressed against the glass on your sliding French Doors.
On those “free ways” to get food…May the FORCE be with you!
HIGH PROTEIN SPROUTS
The seeds from which various sprouts start life determine the nutritional content of the finished sprouts. High-protein legumes yield high-protein sprouts, while radish and alfalfa seeds produce sprouts high in antioxidants but low in protein. Look for sprouts at your local grocer or health food store, or start your own from seeds or dried legumes. The average person needs at least 50 grams of protein each day. A cup of sprouts from legumes or wheat provides you with about 15 to 20 percent of your protein intake for the day.
1. DRIED PEAS
The sprouts that emerge from dried peas, also known as split peas, provide 10.6 grams of protein per half cup. Sprouts from dried peas are high in vitamin C and in B-complex vitamins, including folate. They are also a good source of several minerals, including iron, magnesium, phosphorus, copper and manganese. At 150 calories per serving, the sprouts have less than 1 gram of fat, with just a trace of the unhealthy kind.
2. SOYBEAN
A 1-cup serving of fresh soybean sprouts provides 9 grams of protein. The 85-calorie serving is also high in folate, vitamin C, thiamin and manganese. Soybean sprouts are higher in saturated fat than most other sprouts; the serving takes up 4.69 percent of the recommended daily value for total fat and 0.7 percent of the DV for saturated fat.
3. WHEAT
Germinating your sprouts from wheat seeds yields a product that contributes 8 grams of protein in each 1-cup serving. Wheat sprouts are also higher in calories than legume seeds, at 214 calories per cup. You’ll also get healthy doses of the nutrients for which wheat is known, including B-complex vitamins, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus and selenium.
4. LENTIL
Lentil sprouts provide 6.9 grams of protein per cup. At 82 calories a cup, lentils provide about one-fifth of the folate, manganese and vitamin C you need each day. Lentil sprouts also provide iron, zinc, copper, potassium, phosphorus and B-vitamins in addition to folate.
5. KIDNEY BEANS
You’ll get 7.7 grams of protein from each 1-cup of fresh kidney bean sprouts. The 53-calorie serving is especially high in vitamin C, offering about 120 percent of the DV for vitamin C in each serving. The sprouts also contribute high amounts of B-complex vitamins, including folate, as well as iron, potassium, copper and manganese.
6. NAVY BEANS
Sprouts germinated from navy beans provide about 6.4 grams of protein per serving. You’ll also get about one-third of the folate and vitamin C you need for the day from the 70-calorie serving. Navy beans are also high in other B vitamins, as well as iron, magnesium, phosphorus, copper and manganese. The serving has 70 calories and less than 1 gram fat.
REFERENCES & RESOURCES
• Harvard Medical School: Healthy Harvest
• U.S. Food and Drug Administration: Calculate the Percent Daily Value for the Appropriate Nutrients
• USDA National Nutrient Database: Dried Pea Sprouts(NDB No: 11316)
• USDA National Nutrient Database: Soybean Sprouts (NDB No: 11452)
• USDA National Nutrient Database: Wheat Sprouts (NDB No: 20087)
• USDA National Nutrient Database: Lentil Sprouts (NDB No: 11248 )
• USDA National Nutrient Database: Kidney Bean Sprouts (NDB No: 11029)
• USDA National Nutrient Database: Navy Bean Sprouts (NDB No: 11046)
Sprouts are not the answer for all calories in SHTF, no one food type is, but they are part of a wise multifaceted food prep plan…and you are underestimating their: ease of growth, safety in growing, protein, and full belly nutritional potential.
Mark…
Just in case you have a bunch of old pinto beans that just never seem to finish cooking no matter how much fuel you waste trying, they will still sprout and have a crunchy texture similar to walnuts. I used up 2 pails that way left over from the Y2K scare.
Flea,
Couldn’t old beans simply be crushed/pulverized and made into a paste for consumption?
Sure, but that’s a lot of calories to burn doing that in TSHTF and fuel or not wanting to make a fire if you are staying low makes it an attractive option. The smell of beans cooking for hours will get you attacked.
Make them into refried beans and then dry and can them in flakes like the Mormons used to do (I sent two cans to HSF… one for EC and one to open and eat or look at.) They really do store well that way and they can be eaten as snacks.
The LDS refried beans are really bland, but I seriously think I’ve come up with a reasonable seasoned version.
One big problem… if you get the munchies and eat a big bunch of refried bean chips, you will need extra rolls of toilet paper.
You see why I am giving away a lot of my stored beans. Trading that B for TP. Haha
Flea,
I actually made my first freeze dried purchase in the end of Reagan’s first term from a Mormon company in Utah. My daughter was 7 and we were living in Robert Lee West Texas, outside San Angelo. Wanted to have some food insurance.
I opened the buckets after Y2K was over and ate every bit of it. It was all basic staples.
That’s one of the reasons I’m into freeze drying.
Ok, well thanks for that info. I think it is all well and good for helping through a bottleneck period. I just don’t see it working for people as a repeatable strategy going forward, is my point… What do you do when your pails of bought seeds are empty?
“What do you do when your pails of bought seeds are empty?”
Fart, burp and shit…
Then get back to work in the greenhouse, garden, cold frames, fruit and nut tree orchard, berry bushes, grape arbors, chicken coop, rabbit cages, goat pen, root cellar, freezer dryer, fish pond, canning…oh yea and check the turtle traps…if they are full…it’s time for turtle soup…and make it SNAPPY!
Well, now you’re talkin’… 😉
Cannabis hemp seeds are one of the best sources for sprouts. Industrial Hemp =no THC.
You can get them very inexpensively here–
https://viablehempseedco.com/products
I got some last year. Very healthy. I got the shorter Polish Hemp seeds there. If you want to make your own seeds, Ruderalis is easy to grow in a window as the Polish hemp seeds are from the Cannabis Ruderalis part of the cannabis family. Again, no THC.
You can also get a much larger yield from Viable’s other hemp seeds, though they take longer to grow & get very tall. The Ruderalis variety grows much faster, are adapted to cooler temps & shorter days, but stay comparatively small.
If you don’t want to make your own seeds, any of their hemp varieties will do for sprouts. Even the dna THC laden seeds make excellent sprouts & won’t gethca ‘high’. Those however are VERY expensive.
As a bonus, flour can be made from the roots of any cannabis varieties that is also nearly THC free.
SamFox
Interesting…thanks for posting that Sam…
My recent experience with having 22 year-old hernia mesh removed has made me not only a FAN of sprouts and breads made from ancient grains but a devoted follower of the Amish way with fermented food.
Fortunately, I knew that when you are in Rome you do as Romans do, so when I drove to purchase a gallon of maple syrup in Missouri and “met” the Amish family who makes syrup here? My odd assortment of scarves and grasp of how to talk to people came in handy.
As did my story of what Corn Sugar did to my intestines during this Hernia Mesh Removal Ordeal of mine. She also knows the EVIL of corn sugar and invited me to come back when the family was not eating “Dinner.” It was a bit after noon.
(NO LAWYERS NEED TO CALL ME YOU FUCKING LOSER AMBULANCE CHASING BASTARDS… I am a service connected honorably discharged AF Veteran and when an idiot on this blog cuts off the head of a raccoon pelt named Maggie and shits in it, Admin will get 500 dollars and I’ll be a rich fucking woman in the Ozarks.)
Why did you have the hernia mesh removed?
I had a double hernia about 20 years ago and the surgeon at the VA hospital put in a plastic mesh. In the first few years, I would get a fever and pain occasionally when I moved too aggressively and ripped the scar tissue that forms over the mesh, but in the last few years, no problems.
Dude, if dogs love you, I love you too. (in a man kinda way). And I gotta get back into sprouting. Question, can you save seeds to sprout later?
Answer: “Yes.”
BUT…temperature and dampness are critical.
I have sprouts in buckets under a bed in an underground combo tornado shelter, root cellar, ammo bunker. It stays 55ish and I run a dehumidifier. For shelf life that is ideal.
I bought them over a few years and I can’t remember the brands but they were all in individual Mylar bags and most came in their own bucket…some I put up. I gave a bucket of sprouts to my daughter and son- in-law and grandson.
My long term foods are all freeze dried, but now I have a freeze dryer. They aren’t cheap, but talk about food insurance.
Here is what Wally World is offering, not bad. Could give you a good re-start. But, there are lot of sites selling sprouting kits. Plenty of you tubes too.
12 Lb Sprouting Seed Assortment – 1 Lb Ea. of Organic Sprout Seeds – Alfalfa, Radish, Clover, Lentil, Mung Bean, Garbanzo Beans, Green Pea, Bean Salad Mix, Protein Powerhouse Mix, More
https://www.walmart.com/ip/12-Lb-Sprouting-Seed-Assortment-1-Lb-Ea-Organic-Sprout-Seeds-Alfalfa-Radish-Clover-Lentil-Mung-Bean-Garbanzo-Beans-Green-Pea-Bean-Salad-Mix-Protein-P/820983228?
You mean during the part where she jiggles while massaging and pat-drying your beans?
Didn’t watch it.
Haaaaaaaa….
She and her BFF spend time in Costa Rica. Much time in bikinis. Don’t say I never help out.
The article missed the boat.
I’m not as concerned about corn as I am meat. Midwest flooding killed an estimated 1 million calves in Nebraska alone. Hog and poultry totals weren’t reported when I quit reading about it, but one farmer had lost 700 hogs. Add to that China’s 150 – 200 million hog loss to swine flu. Adding insult to injury, we’re exporting to them at record pace. Bottom line? Expect higher food prices . . . maybe much higher.
China Swine Flu Update & Pork Skyrockets in Trade Volume (809)
Friday, May 10, 2019 6:58
China pork production down 35% and USA pork exports to China all-time record. Swine flu numbers across China and one million pounds of seized pork from China in New Jersey was contaminated. Delays in spring planting across USA and crop declines in China along with food inflation causing unrest in major Chinese cities.
https://beforeitsnews.com/v3/survival/2019/2730219.html
‘As many as one million’ calves lost in Nebraska flooding
700 hogs drowned at one farm
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/03/21/us/floods-nebraska-iowa-agriculture-farm-loss/index.html
I think your right.
Since agro-tech has managed to “force” corn into nearly everything we eat (and a lot of things we don’t) in one way or another, it won’t just be meat that increases in price (of course, we were looking at an increase already because of all the cows that died in the same floods):
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-biorefinery-cargill-factbox/factbox-corn-plant-and-products-made-from-corn-idUSTRE68S4Y220100929
Old article but gives a quick breakdown of where we use corn. . .
I won’t eat GMO corn, corn syrup, or corn-fed, factory-farmed animals. They’re all conduits for glyphosates which destroys the soil biome and gut health in humans. They contribute useless calories that add fat quick.
Goats and cattle didn’t evolve with corn in their diets and it creates an inflammatory response even if the corn is non-GMO. Inflammation is a common precursor to a lot of ailments. A study on goats, which can eat anything.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4093065/
The ethanol idiocy isn’t going away – it’s a 3rd rail for right and left. Our (Federal) subsidy of its negative ROI is a voter/base issue backed up by lots of agricultural industry lobbyists. None of them care about the health of the soil, plants, animals or you. Or that it’s bad for every engine that burns it. I buy fuel without ethanol for my lawn mower, chain saw, ect.
As do I, since it’s cheaper than a carb rebuild and less headache, too.
I have been trying to avoid gmo anything for several years for the reason you mentioned – bad gut health. Rarely eat bread, pasta, cereals of any kind, corn anything that I don’t grow or buy from someone I know, but the hardest to give up was beer . . . not kidding. Glyphosate is in everything anymore, and it’s disturbing the damage it can and does do to the human machine, which is much worse than just kill a few bacteria:
https://youtu.be/3j503MTyWpY?t=831
“I know, but the hardest to give up was beer . . . not kidding. Glyphosate is in everything anymore, and it’s disturbing the damage it can and does do to the human machine, which is much worse than just kill a few bacteria”
Say it an’t so!!!!! I don’t drink a lot of beer…too much pissing…but a couple of cold beers late afternoon in the summer…with a cigar…that’s living.
How about red wine and vodka?
Hate to say it, but . . . :
https://uspirg.org/sites/pirg/files/reports/WEB_CAP_Glyphosate-pesticide-beer-and-wine_REPORT_022619.pdf
As for vodka, nobody has done specific testing but here’s an article regarding organic vodkas (domestic only):
https://earth911.com/living-well-being/organic-vodka/
and another about what to look for/avoid in regards to “hard” booze:
My personal fave, but, hey, I’m Polish:
http://www.deutschfamily.com/the-deutsch-family-our-brands/luksusowa-vodka-facts/
This was an invaluable post!
Hahaha glad to help, esp. with vodka!!!
Casey’s usually has alcohol free regular gasoline in most of their stations. That’s what I put in my pickup. A gas station about 20 miles away has alcohol free high test for a few pennies more per gallon. I buy that for my chainsaw and lawnmower. An interesting alternative for small engines is 115-octane racing fuel at about $9.00 per gallon or aviation gas available at small airfields. Don’t know what av gas costs.
You can make better beer than you can buy . Use organic rye, millet, rice, or some of the other organic grains. Finding sources for organic grains is time consuming but well worth the time.
After the collapse that is coming, the SHTF event, being able to make and sell whiskey and being able to grow tobacco and cure it may make the difference between life and death. I plan to learn how to make whiskey and also plan to get some good tobacco seeds from Kentucky or North Carolina where they grow the good stuff. People will be willing to trade almost any kind of food or tool for whiskey and tobacco.
Av gas is less than $4 a gallon up here, that’s all we use in our equipment for obvious reasons. If people haven’t figured out what ethanol does to stuff yet then they aren’t paying attention.
Yup, evans expess mart in sunapee. I fill a few 5 gallon cans every time I go by. My chainsaw purs on the stuff, boat too. Had to rebuild the carb on my splitter a few weeks ago because of the ethanol crap, pain in the ass.
I had to replace 3 cylinders in the 372XP in a two year period and I was the only one to make the mix and use the saw. It finally occurred to me that it didn’t matter if you used ‘fresh gas’ because every drop you pump comes out of the same holding tank. every shipment gets pumped into the remains of the last one and all that degraded ethanol at the bottom that had turned to water was emulsified when the new gas was added. There is no ‘new gas’ available anywhere if there’s ethanol in the mix because the holding tanks are never emptied out, so progressively over time there is more and more decomposed ethanol in that tank. Aviation fuel or the pure gas you can but in cans is your only option if you want to extend the life of your engines.
Not much discussion about the plight many farmers are in. One of the little understood reasons is that community banks have been hammered as a result of goobermint’s continuing screwups in search of a fix for the Great Recession. TBTF banks are doing quite nicely, thank you.
Where do farmers get their credit? Community banks.
The Census says that there are roughly three quarters of a million farmers left in the US and close to 18 million government workers. That explains a lot more than the problem of weather.
I have some photos of some land in southern Illinois and Missouri which is considered to be a loss for the year… thanks to the Federal Crop Insurance program put in place, hmmm… when did that go into effect. Was it the Clinton years?
Not only banks are too big to fail. Some of these Corporate Farmers down here practically have their seed crop delivered in armored trucks. And, you’d better not get caught growing any of their patented seeds without permission, either.
Yikes.
Yes. It is still raining here most of the time and the rivers and small creeks are burgeoning in the bottoms. I detoured three times to get from Sikeston to Poplar Bluff the other day. If you look at a map you will see I indeed covered some miles with that pelt before he headed to see where Davy Crockett made a stand, supposedly, at a little gift shop in San Antonio called the Alamo.
The folks around here get it. They are waking up the community for me. I’m handing them a can of beans of unspecified color for their trouble.
No corn.
I am reliably informed that each sack of that GMO corn seed costs about $250, but one sack only has enough seed to plant 4 acres.
There is essentially only one supplier of GMO seed since Bayer/Monsanto/Syngenta has bought all the old seed companies, like DeKalb, etc.
Once you know that, armored cars make sense.
And… just so you know. If you visit any big industrial corn grower in the region, nobody says nothing bad about corn around here. Nothing.
And watch your mouth about soybeans while you are at it.
Happy Mother’s Day, MG.
I’m bookmarking this so I can download and print the great info you all put out here.
All it’s done is rain with a break here and there. The fields are soaked and it looks like a lot if them are still unplanted.
Oh and it’s way colder than normal.
Got me thinking. The last Fourth Turning it was dust and now it is water. . .