Authored by Michael Snyder via TheMostImportantNews.com,
The information that I am about to share with you is extremely alarming, but I have always endeavored to never sugarcoat things for my readers. Right now, there are shortages of certain items in grocery stores across the United States, and food supplies have gotten very tight all over the globe. I have repeatedly warned that this is just the beginning, but I didn’t realize how dire things have already gotten until I received an email from a farming insider that I have corresponded with over the years. I asked him if I could publicly share some of the information that he was sharing with me, and he said that would be okay as long as I kept his name out of it.
According to this farming insider, dramatically increased costs for fertilizer will make it impossible for many farmers to profitably plant corn this year. The following is an excerpt from an email that he recently sent me…
“Things for 2022 are interesting (and scary). Input costs for things like fertilizer, liquid nitrogen and seeds are like triple and quadruple the old prices. It will not be profitable to plant this year. Let me repeat, the economics will NOT work. Our plan, is to drop about 700 acres of corn off and convert to soybeans (they use less fertilizer, and we also have chicken manure from that operation). Guess what? We are not the only ones with those plans. Already there is a shortage of soybean seeds, so we will see how that will work out. The way I see it, there will be a major grain shortage later in the year, especially with corn. I mean, we are small with that. What about these people in the midwest who have like 10,000 acres of corn? This will not be good.”
Once I received that message, I wrote him back with some questions that I had.
In response, he expanded on his comments in a subsequent email…
As for the farming, I see it getting bad. Things like fertilizer and liquid nitrogen have tripled and quadrupled in price. Yes commodity prices are up, but that certainly wont cover the new increased input costs. We are in NC, so while certainly not like the midwest, we still grow grain. The midwest of course will have these same higher input costs as well.
Corn for example, typically takes about 600 pounds of fertilizer per acre, plus 50 gallons of liquid nitrogen. Times that by many acres and thats a lot of money. Soybeans take much less. The plan for us, and most others around here, is to drastically cut corn acres and switch to soybeans. Problem is, there is apparently a soybean seed shortage because others have this plan as well. We were lucky enough to pre buy enough to do it. However, most people, especially younger farmers, or farmers where that is all they do, probably don’t have the money to front like that.
The way I see it, a corn shortage will come. I guess there could possibly be a glut of soybeans, but remember that could depend on the seed being available. I guess there are other alternatives, maybe milo, oats, or barley. Of course the corn market is much larger. Think animal feed and ethanol. I mean for animals, soybeans are used too, but its a mix. What happens to the animal producers who depend on reasonably priced corn? I just don’t see how it can end well. I mean, even if we end up with plenty of soybeans, even a glut, then you have a busted market for that. I don’t know. There just isnt much history to base any of this on. I just see it hurting both grain farmers, and animal farmers, and also translating to more shortages and price increases for consumers who buy the end products.
I was stunned when I first read that.
Corn is one of the foundational pillars of our food supply.
If you go to the grocery store and start reading through the ingredients of various products, you will quickly discover that corn is in just about everything in one form or another.
So what is our country going to look like if a severe corn shortage actually happens?
I don’t even want to think about that.
Of course fertilizer prices are not just going through the roof here in the United States.
In South America, high fertilizer prices are going to dramatically affect coffee production…
Christina Ribeiro do Valle, who comes from a long line of coffee growers in Brazil, is this year paying three times what she paid last year for the fertilizer she needs. Coupled with a recent drought that hit her crop hard, it means Ms. do Valle, 75, will produce a fraction of her Ribeiro do Valle brand of coffee, some of which is exported.
There is also a shortage of fertilizer. “This year, you pay, then put your name on a waiting list, and the supplier delivers it when he has it,” she said.
If you love to drink coffee in the morning, you will soon be paying much more for that privilege.
Over in Africa, fertilizer prices could result in “30 million metric tons less food produced”…
Fertilizer demand in sub-Saharan Africa could fall 30% in 2022, according to the International Fertilizer Development Center, a global nonprofit organization. That would translate to 30 million metric tons less food produced, which the center says is equivalent to the food needs of 100 million people.
“Lower fertilizer use will inevitably weigh on food production and quality, affecting food availability, rural incomes and the livelihoods of the poor,” said Josef Schmidhuber, deputy director of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s trade and markets division.
Where in the world are we going to get enough food to replace “the food needs of 100 million people”?
This is beyond serious.
Basically, the stage is being set for the sort of historic global crisis that I have been relentlessly warning about.
Many Americans had assumed that even if the rest of the world was suffering that we would be immune.
But now there are widespread shortages all over the nation, and the Wall Street Journal just published a major article entitled “U.S. Food Supply Is Under Pressure, From Plants To Store Shelves”.
This is really happening.
In Washington D.C., residents are being instructed to “just buy what you need and leave some for others”…
“If you’re hitting the grocery store to prepare for winter weather, please just buy what you need and leave some for others! You may have noticed empty shelves in some stores due to national supply chain issues, but there is no need to buy more than you normally would.”
What would have been unimaginable just a few years ago is now making headlines on a daily basis.
Of course it isn’t just our food supply that is under threat. As Victor Davis Hansen has aptly noted, our country is now in the process of undergoing a “systems collapse”…
In modern times, as in ancient Rome, several nations have suffered a “systems collapse.” The term describes the sudden inability of once-prosperous populations to continue with what had ensured the good life as they knew it.
Abruptly, the population cannot buy, or even find, once plentiful necessities. They feel their streets are unsafe. Laws go unenforced or are enforced inequitably. Every day things stop working. The government turns from reliable to capricious if not hostile.
A lot of people are going to be caught off guard by the pace of change.
Things are shifting so rapidly that it really is hard to keep up with it all unless you are paying very close attention.
Now that you have been exposed to the information in this article, please don’t go back to sleep.
This is not a drill.
We really are heading into a nightmare scenario, and I strongly urge you to act accordingly.
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I’m not saying it’s genocide, but it’s genocide.
Whistleblower Doctor Allegations: No Excess Mortality Prior To Jab Rollout, Fauci Worse Than Adolf
“NOBODY SHOULD EVER AGAIN TRUST ANYTHING THE HOSPITALISTS SAY”
Dr James A. Thorpe MD obstetric gynecologist
https://www.redvoicemedia.com/video/2022/01/whistleblower-doctor-allegations-no-excess-mortality-prior-to-jab-rollout-fauci-worse-than-adolf/
” The vaccines don’t stop the virus, argues the prominent virologist, they do the opposite — they “feed the virus,” and facilitate its development into stronger and more transmittable variants. These new virus variants will be more resistant to vaccination and may cause more health implications than their “original” versions.”
Luc Montagnier French virologist and recipient of the 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
JC reminded his “class” on Gigaohm Biological the other day that he and other biologists had recognized some of the codons from the HIV projects they’d worked on as being in the Covid-19 vaccine code they’d seen.
All one has to do is listen to Fauci’s comments about how wonderful it would be if the pharmaceutical companies knew what sort of vaccines they needed to make each year and governments could guarantee their use.
That has been his goal for decades. Why have we allowed these corrupt old fucks to build their own empires with our tax dollars?
I wish I could vote this “up” by a 1k times.
Once more, the issue lies not in the number of mouths to feed or the amount of food required, but in the methods used.
No complex society can survive if 100% of its population is dependent on 1.3% of the population to provide them with their daily bread. It was an insane proposition, propped up by artificial inputs, completely dependent upon fixed costs. It makes the plate spinning guy on the Ed Sullivan Show look like an amateur.
People who want to survive what is coming have got to begin at least some portion of their own food production and becomes serious about it immediately. It is the height of irresponsibility to believe that our most basic human requirements can be outsourced forever. Human beings were never meant to live in an infantile state relying on others their entire lives in order to fill their bellies. Food is not a consumer good even if it happens to be for sale- look at government tracking of its price, for example, completely left off inflation charts to keep track of its rise.
And we don’t need to eat that much corn in all of its processed forms, just saying.
We should’ve listened to TJ.
Proud to say I’m related to that great man, TJ (one of my relatives married his sister, Mary, which makes him MY Uncle Tom).
My grandfather’s aunt Leslie was married to Herbert Hoover’s second cousin from Iowa.
Homer
That always makes me laugh.
Monoculture is retarded on every level that matters.
You’re right that it’s a problem of scale. But rather than expanding out, we expanded up. Quantity over quality and all that.
M-snto’s scheme to cause a problem, then provide the solution, then get the gov’t to subsidize the scam and endorse their monopoly is just another example of the corporate fascist state we live under.
There is no real consumer demand for GMO corn and soy. Unlike onions and potatoes you don’t see racks of soybeans at the supermarket, much less the farmer’s market. Now coffee is a different story…
“Now coffee is a different story ”
The 3 pound can of coffee at Costco was $9-$10 for the last several years. Now $14.
Without coffee, then my ammo supply gets depleted, then what?!!!
Enjoy the Longpork while it lasts.
This is exactly why they spent decades creating the industrial scale agricultural system we have in place now, that is inextricably tied to massive external inputs of fuel and chemicals to be sustained, so that they could pull the rug out from under it whenever they wanted.
“Control Food and you Control People”
I invested in crop cover seeds, brassica; turnips and daikon. I can eat the turnips, the cows can eat the turnips and radishes. Corn? Well, corn is dandy up to a point but I don’t eat dent corn and I don’t grind corn. That may change. Note that if you feed cover crop you need to give the animals hay.
Grains require processing, hulling, threshing and grinding. in order for humans to eat them. What can you grow as an alternative? I’m looking into amaranth and or quinoa.
I feed birdseed to the wild birds and that has shot up in price, from seven to almost ten dollars for a 20lb. bag. Ditto for scratch grains which I sometimes use as a substitute. You can also feed cheap cat food to birds but that’s getting harder to find as well.
I do believe we are living in interesting times.
Plant thick skinned winter squash that you eat green like summer squash and matures in the Fall to fruit that stores 6 months up to 24 months in the case of Hopi Grey. Ref Seed Treasures in Angora Mn.
After trying several varieties, we’re back to growing Butternut squash. When green it’s better than summer squash with a nutty taste, and it’s resistant to squash vine borers! Also a good keeper.
If you non-gardeners/ non-farmers decide to start a garden (which is a wise move), get your seeds NOW.
I have commercial farm accounts with several seed and farm supply companies across America. (I am a small-scale farmer in Carolina).
In the late winter / early spring of 2020, I had one HELL of a time aquiring relatively SMALL amounts of seed (especially kitchen garden stuff) from my local seed suppliers because everyone and their brother made a run on these companies. I’m talking things like lettuces, rocket, etc. I didn’t see it coming and didn’t get my hands on some of those things until 2021.
Other seed companies in Blue States (looking at you, Johnnies and Vermont Bean and Seed Co’s) took my orders, took my money, and then either failed to deliver or else delivered extremely late. One of those two companies sent me Irish Potatoes (ordered in January) in JUNE. That’s too damn late for Irish seed potatoes in my climate. The other just held on to my money until December 2020 and said “sorry, here’s your money back”, eleven months later.
Both fucked up my crop rotations. Actually, my failure to see it coming fucked up my crop rotations. In 2021, we quadrupled our sweet potato production and said sin loi to Irish potatoes forever.
My point is, if you wait until March to get seeds or live plants, you’re likely to be tail-end Charlie and may fail to get your hands on what you want to cultivate.
There’s a misconception that older seeds aren’t viable. Test by sprouting, you may be pleasantly surprised. I have also grabbed bags of supermarket beans, black-eyed peas for the most part and sprouted those for planting. They give me tender green beans and later, hard beans. Look into cover crop seeds, turnips and daikon, those don’t usually sell out and they’re cheaper than nursery seeds.
GROUNDHOG DAIKON RADISH
Grow beans from supermarket beans….
https://homeguides.sfgate.com/store-bought-beans-grow-plant-them-57747.html
Grow garlic from supermarket garlic. I’m doing this because nursery garlic is beyond ridiculous in price….ditto for growing potatoes, shallots, onions, etc. Sweet potatoes are easy to grow but the processing is a challenge. I got little bugs in the potatoes when I left them to dry. Never tried eating them straight from the dirt, may give that a shot.
Don’t toss rotten tomatoes, plant them, ditto for sprouted onions, white potatoes and anything else you find growing roots in your vegetable keeper in the fridge.
https://www.gardeningknowhow.com/edible/herbs/garlic/growing-store-bought-garlic.htm
Why depend on seed suppliers???
There is such a thing as saving seed. My wife is a prolific seed saver, of just about everything. For the garden, we let things like radishes, carrots, lettuce etc go to seed and we harvest, thin as the volunteers come up. We buy very little seed. As soon as its warm enough there are things growing in the garden already, hardened and will survive just about anything that comes along.
Well, in my case I don’t have the time or labor to save the seeds of everything that I plant or like to eat. Carrots, beets and lettuces for example… these are kitchen garden things on my farm that have been cheaper to buy as seed than the time and labor required to save seed. That time and labor is used elsewhere on farm where it is better utilized. For $3.29 I can get more carrot seed than we will eat in a season. I’m not in the carrot business. All good until I can’t source seed…
Daikon radishes are part of my forage cover crop rotation, and they are not harvested but rather terminated. Same thing with clover, sun hemp, vetch, winter peas, etc.
Then there is the matter of crop rotation. I have things growing all year round. Almost no annuals except for flowers are allowed to “volunteer” because something else is rotating in behind it. We DO save some seed. Like some brassicas we let bolt, okra, peas, beans, cucurbits, and the like.
Looks like we will be breaking into the long term SHTF food stores before too long. I figure that time will come when a loaf of bread costs $20 and people begin getting violent and hungry. At that point the gate gets closed and the guns come out.
Capitalism, bruh. Free markets are free. Collect some capital and start farming.
We “farm” aka garden and raise some livestock, for ourselves. Ahead of the game and waiting for the crash.
Flash, you are on a roll today. Keep up the good work.
I wonder if producers will ever benefit from price increases, here in clown world.
So far, no.
Muh free market determines the price of produce, not the producers. It’s merely a roll of the loaded dice.
Satan’s Bushel
Garet Garrett
Who dared to buy wheat at this great price?
None of the little gamblers. They were afraid. They sold it rather—sold it because they were afraid.
None of the big gamblers were buying it, either. They, too, were afraid, though for a different reason. The rise in the price of wheat was beginning to have an ominous social aspect. A public cry had been raised against the pit. It was widely believed that the principal Chicago gamblers, having bought the crop at much lower prices from the farmers, were now turning it into gold at the expense of the countries allied against Germany in a war which was about to become our war as well. This was wicked in itself and very repugnant to our sympathies; but at the same time the American bread eater was mulcted in a like manner. So the public believed. And it had been true. But all the big, respectable gamblers were now standing aside, fearful of an experience in the pillory of public opinion if the Government should act suddenly and catch them red-handed in the business of profiteering.
And yet the price of wheat kept rising. Who bought it? Who was the reckless customer that went on buying it, regardless of the price of political consequences. Answer: WAR.
War was that kind of customer. Price was no object. The agents of France and Great Britain added each day millions of bushels to what the wheat pit called “that Eastern account.” The orders originated in New York, where the Allied Buying Commission sat.
But do you remember? This pit stuff is phantom wheat. Armies do not subsist upon imaginary food. Why did they buy that?
For this reason: That to a certain extent and under certain conditions phantom wheat bought in the pit may be converted into actual grain on the railroad track. If the seller of phantom wheat cannot, when called upon, deliver the actual grain he must settle in cash. So the buyer will get either the wheat itself or a profit in money. The Allied Commission was buying both phantom wheat and actual grain at the same time. This is to be remembered. It was running a corner such as had never been dreamed of in the world before—a corner in wheat at Chicago with the Bank of England behind it.
There was yet one other heedless buyer.
On the fourth day Weaver went one step down into the pit and began to buy. On the fifth day he went another step down, still buying. On the sixth day he stood in the center and bought heavily. That was his regular place thereafter; and it came to be that he had a clear space around him, at the very core of the swirl, as it had been in the little wheat pit across the street, a figure for the eye to dwell upon. It came also that he was treated with awe and foreboding, like an event with no place in the probability of things.
Never here, as in that other pit, did he taunt the sellers or appear exulting. Why this was nobody knew. He was grim and silent. He would stand for sometimes an hour, motionless, gazing at the floor, at a distant object, or at Cordelia sitting always in the gallery with her regard upon him. Then of a sudden, with a sweeping look at the faces in the howling ring above him, he would lift his hands in signal and take all of that weighless, impalpable wheat they were willing to hurl down at him. No one ever saw him make a selling gesture. He never sold. And his profits were running wild, for the price knew not how to fall. Always he bought. Always it rose.
A few weeks after Weaver’s advent on the Board of Trade America put her fist in the war.
The price of wheat was then approaching three dollars a bushel. The public cry against the pit increased, and not without reason in morals, for of course if gamblers were manipulating the price of wheat for private greed that now was both unpatriotic and abominable. Dreadwind spoke to Weaver. How could he reconcile what he was doing with any sense of common duty? The old man took thought and answered slowly:
“The pit cannot grow one blade of grass. Neither can it destroy one grain of wheat. There is so much wheat. No more, no less. It is only the price.”
Pigeons are edible.
Just tell your wife and kids hat it’s dove.
I don’t think anything in this article is accurate, except corn and soy are accursed crops and not food.
Good for shrunken testicles and fatty liver. Great population control crops.
it is a micheal snyder article…its about the doom not the facts
I have a list of THREE writers I always skip right over, and he’s numero uno on the list.
What is a “Farming insider” anyway? He always has insiders of some sort.
Snyder is a Chicken Little. But even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Fertilizer in my AO is about theee times the cost it was a year ago.
Better get some chickens and cows to get some good manure.
Snyder is still a fucken cock bag.
ZFG, out.
P.S. pig poo is pretty pontent too.
Bunny poo doesn’t have to compost.
Fuck I hate typing on phones. Three times the cost and potent.
Check this out. Woolworths Darwin, NT Australia.
They’re all blocked.
404 error
Maybe a crop that requires liquid nitrogen is not a reliable food source.
Well, yeah.
Save your pee. All those pee filled mason jars in the garage can be GREAT conversation starters, ditto if you have an open vat or two. You can also vacuum seal the precious, for when you need some aged urine. It’s also a great excuse for a keg party, invite your friends over and then let them recycle that beer into piss. Guys could make a competition out of it and the girls can also practice their aim. Loads of fun while saving the earth and saving money. Remember… our motto is….Pee is free…fertilizer.
When it comes to survival, your’e in(or is it urine) to win.
Move to where there are some fruit and nut trees for heavens sake.
Made me think of this classic:
‘Round-up ready’, especially SOY is killing Us. We are being GMO’d to death on multiple fronts. On A positive note…
Revelation 22:12
“And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.”
Yes but it’s GMO or pesticides; army worms (from moths) and grass hoppers will strip a field of anything in a few days down to just stalks.
My wife takes every spider she finds, out to the garden. No aphids, no beetle, worms and the occasional slug survives. Obviously in a bigger garden or acreage its a bit more of a problem… but neighbours have spiders too… steal’m
Oooh, a new economy job… spider wrangler.
I’ve been laughed at and ridiculed by those around me for several years, but very soon they will be hungry and scared. When they come looking for help from me, I can laugh and ridicule them for not listening. Sorry, I only have enough for me and mine. We might be blood, but I ain’t spill’in mine for you. You can’t be trusted. Sorry.
Ditto Brother, I have been preaching like Jeremiah to the urban useless idiots for 20 years now that when SHTF it’ll be to late for them; the hand writing has been on the wall 20 years for them to see but they refused to get off the couch and farm; but $100 for football games and concerts was fine; $250,000 for a house fine, but $50,000 for land was to much; $50,000 car fine, but $10,000 tractor to much. Like HSF says, a couple of us can’t feed hundreds of couch potato lard ass liberals who think farmers are destroying the environment and big predators are necessary to keep my herd healthy. Lot of them vote against me and even took the poison.
I’m going to speak out of my ass a bit here being a moderately successful “backyard farmer” so to speak…
Our “food” is shit. The soil is depleted and so we subsidize with tons of fertilizer. Rotate crops and fields. Let it lay fallow a season to replenish. Yes, you will not make those big bucks selling to China but you will have better land and quality of production.
We must have a complete stop to govt subsidizing of farming. Govt is most always either the direct problem or a fertilizer for the problem (see what I did there?).
Corn, wheat, sugar in all its forms, do not need to be in all of these products that they are in. Again, our “food” is garbage. Let us accept this paradigm shift, change our perspective and live like it’s 1935, so to speak.
Finally, let us not forget who owns the most farmland in the US. Bill Gates. No coincidences.
OK, so people would eat less food willingly? Sell that scheme to your liberal friends. Now they will have to; let’s see how they like it.
Corn and soybeans? Do we need SO much of these two things? For our BS economic system? Yes. For the actual Health of people? Hell no.
not exactly related but close enough–
an article from the fee regarding farm subsidies & the lack of true free markets in the agricultural industry–
I’m gonna call a local yokel here who farms several hundred acres down in the Bootheel Bottom lands. Since he’s a former Orville Redenbacher Popcorn farmer turned regular corn farmer for the enormous subsidies, I’m thinking he will be able to at least confirm or deny some of the rumors.
I’ll let y’all know what the feller tells me.
Edit: Talked to my buddy for a while about whether this will lead to a real biblical style famine because he says the fertilizer and seed costs are only a tiny part of the problems farmers face this year.
They rely on truckdrivers for deliveries, too. Or they maintain a small fleet needing drivers.
Either way, the impact this will have on the growing season this year could be catastrophic to the markets. I mean your local supermarkets.
Harold said fertilizer costs are more than double last year and don’t even ask about the seed prices.
He offered to bring a small herd of his cattle to rotate around our land. I told him I think that is a win-win for them and us. His son and grandson will fence them and keep them fed and we will get all the manure and half the hay.
Sounds like a winner, doesn’t it?
If they are calves, they will be taking some nitrogen off your land as they grow; he would owe you some steaks then to make it all balance back out for you. There is no free lunch if the calves are growing per se.
You plan on grazing and haying the same land in the same season?
No. That would be stupid.
We own 40 acres with 27 acres open fields. Three water sources well placed by God.
Good neighbors help build electric fences to graze their rodeo longhorns.
This is gonna be fun watching the grandkids rope calves!