Authored by Michael Snyder via The Economic Collapse blog,
If you think that things are bad now, just wait until we get into the second half of this year. Global food supplies have already gotten very tight, but it is the food that won’t be produced during this current growing season in the northern hemisphere that will be the real problem. Worldwide fertilizer prices have doubled or tripled, the war in Ukraine has greatly reduced exports from one of the key breadbaskets of the world, a nightmarish bird flu pandemic is wiping out millions of chickens and turkeys, and bizarre weather patterns are absolutely hammering agricultural production all over the planet. I have often used the phrase “a perfect storm” to describe what we are facing, but even that phrase really doesn’t seem to do justice to the crisis that we will be dealing with in the months ahead.
The following are 18 signs that food shortages will get a lot worse as we head into the second half of 2022…
#1 The largest fertilizer company on the entire planet is publicly warning that severe supply disruptions “could last well beyond 2022”…
The world’s largest fertilizer company warned supply disruptions could extend into 2023. A bulk of the world’s supply has been taken offline due to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia. This has sparked soaring prices and shortages of crop nutrients in top growing areas worldwide; an early indication of a global food crisis could be in the beginning innings.
Bloomberg reports Canada-based Nutrien Ltd.’s CEO Ken Seitz told investors on Tuesday during a conference call that he expects to increase potash production following supply disruptions in Russia and Ukraine (both major fertilizer suppliers). Seitz expects disruptions “could last well beyond 2022.”
#2 The world fertilizer price index has skyrocketed to absurd heights that have never been seen before.
#3 It is being reported that global grain reserves have dropped to “extremely low” levels…
“Global grains stocks remain extremely low, an issue that has become amplified because of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
“We think it will take at least 2-3 years to replenish global grains stocks,” Illinois-based CF Industries Holdings Inc.’s president and chief executive officer Tony Will said in a statement in Wednesday’s earnings report.
#4 Due to the war, agricultural exports from Ukraine have been completely paralyzed…
Nearly 25 million tonnes of grains are stuck in Ukraine and unable to leave the country due to infrastructure challenges and blocked Black Sea ports including Mariupol, a U.N. food agency official said on Friday.
The blockages are seen as a factor behind high food prices which hit a record high in March in the wake of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, before easing slightly in April, the FAO said on Friday.
#5 The out-of-stock rate for baby formula in the United States has now reached 40 percent…
The out-of-stock rate for baby formula hovered between 2% and 8% in the first half of 2021, but began rising sharply last July. Between November 2021 and early April 2022, the out-of-stock rate jumped to 31%, data from Datasembly showed.
That rate increased another 9 percentage points in just three weeks in April, and now stands at 40%, the statistics show. In six states — Iowa, South Dakota, North Dakota, Missouri, Texas and Tennessee — more than half of baby formula was completely sold out during the week starting April 24, Datasembly said.
#6 In six U.S. states, the out-of-stock rate for baby formula has actually risen to 50 percent or greater.
#7 Searches for the phrase “how to make homemade formula for babies” on Google have spiked 120 percent.
#8 We are being told that this is a “perfect storm” as shelves become increasingly bare at food banks all around the nation.
#9 In Canada, more than 1.7 million chickens and turkeys have already been lost in recent months due to the global bird flu pandemic.
#10 In the United States, more than 37 million chickens and turkeys have already been wiped out due to the global bird flu pandemic.
#11 The two largest reservoirs in California, Shasta Lake and Lake Oroville, have both fallen to “critically low levels”.
#12 Some communities in southern California won’t be able to make it through the coming summer months without “significantly cutting back” on their water usage.
#13 Many of the largest lakes around the world are currently in the process of disappearing because they are rapidly drying up.
#14 Wildfires continue to absolutely devastate agricultural land all across the western half of the United States. This weekend, it was New Mexico’s turn to be hit the hardest…
After a few days of calm that allowed some families who had fled wildfires raging in northeast New Mexico to return to their homes, dangerous winds picked up again Sunday, threatening to spread spot fires and complicate work for firefighters.
More than 1,500 firefighters were on the fire lines at the biggest blaze east and northeast of Santa Fe, which grew another 8 square miles (20 square kilometers) overnight to an area more than twice as large as the city of Philadelphia.
#15 We are being told that steak prices in the United States will “keep rising” in the days ahead.
#16 Due to hail and frost, the Spanish apricot crop is going to be way below expectations…
In Spain, the latest forecasts suggest production will not reach 60,000 tonnes, compared with 110,000 tonnes in 2019 and 100,000 tonnes in 2020 and 90,000 tonnes in 2021.
In Murcia, where around two-thirds of Spain’s apricot production is located, farmers in the Mula River and northwest regions have been forced to write off the entire season following a severe hailstorm on Monday which not only resulted in the loss of the fruit, but also caused widespread damage to trees.
#17 Overall, Spanish fruit production is expected to drop to the lowest level in 40 years.
#18 Kansas Senator Roger Marshall is openly warning that a horrifying worldwide famine is coming…
The war in Ukraine will lead to a worldwide famine in the next two years, warned Sen. Roger Marshall (R-Ky.), who serves on the Senate Agriculture Committee, warned on Tuesday.
“You know I’m a big agriculture guy. Twelve, 15 percent of the agriculture products – corn and wheat, sunflower oil – come through that Black Sea, so— and fertilizers come from that area as well, so there actually is going to be a famine one to two years from now. I think two years from now will be even worse,” he told Fox Business’s “Mornings with Maria Bartiromo” on Tuesday.
The alarm bells are ringing.
Are you listening?
In all of the years that I have been writing, I have never seen anything even close to this, and this crisis is only going to intensify as the months roll along.
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Typical Snyder article. He’s not wrong. Just early… Chip
You mean the purveyor of doom porn?
He is probably right on this one but, as you imply, Michael Snyder, Hal Turner, Bo Polny, and Dave Hodges have been warning of the end for over 10 years. Many dates/events have come, and gone, over the years that they predicted. Personally, it gets tiring to hear the boy that cried wolf.
150 some house republicans voted to send Ukraine $40 billion in aid. GAME-SET-MATCH! The United States is fucking OVER!!!! There is no turning back. Prepare accordingly… Chip
They clearly do not even care what their constituents think. I do not believe there are that many people who even pay attention to the news enough to get brainwashed by it.
I wonder if there are “campaign finance laws” that prevent representatives from polling their constituents directly.
I don’t believe in elections, but I wonder how ignorant the puppets are.
I for one will never vote again… Chip
There are many households where TV and cable news are on
all the time. People are afraid they’ll miss something so they
even install a TV in the bedrooms.
I know. We have one main “conservative” size flat screen in the den. And one old 13″ TV in the bedroom we rarely watch. Both are connected to free TV. Glad I don’t have that freaking cable news stuff anymore. Not affordable anyway.
Hello
The R-L parody is finished, DC has a uniparty and those old farts
are pretty much thieves, plus taking bribes, also subject to blackmail
via Epstein and his Islands type operations. Just a quick example…
there is much more.
Found this comment somewhere and saved for posterity sake:
These days I no longer use terms like left and right to evaluate political views.
There are two kinds of folks:
Those who are brainwashed by the official mass media/government propaganda.
Those who are not.
The first group are a clear and present danger to themselves and everyone else. They would support witch-burning if they were told to do so.
Yes and no. We saw the writing on the wall for crises for
more than a decade, and a big one is now reality. Scarce
food can spiral out of control.
Yeah the UN-common sense show. 2-3 years ago the russians and chinese were in Mexico and Canada about to invade. I guess they changed plans and went home.
So go away then.
do you thin the food and fertilizer issues are just early? dunno man, sounds kinda here-and-now to me.
As I said, he may finally be right — this time, and I think things are going south quickly. However, he has said many, many things over the years that were imminent only to fade into obscurity.
Pull your tits out gals and feed your offspring!
grow apricots on the dry lake bottoms…. problem solved
I use to read some of Snyder. Too much doomsday. Interesting then , just too much now.
This I can agree regardless if it’s chem trails, global warming or perhaps too many thousand empty beverage cans along the roads in this area.
From year to year I observe the natural surroundings. Some years certain wild flowers grow more prolifically than others. Clover blossoms are not as big this spring yet still seeded well. I’ve noticed many deciduous trees developing lower leaf growth that would be normal yet upper branches more sparsely developing new leaves. That is not normal. I have a sycamore tree that the upper 2/3 of the tree is still in bud. Not “normal”. And for several years some crepe myrtles that develop lower leaves but same sparse growth in the top portion of the tree. Feb. ’21 saw one day of sub zero temps that killed some shrubs although they have come back.
So, billions are going to die after all?
on a long enough time line ….
I think so, but that idea is horrible. There are nations without food
crops to sustain the population. Period.
The potato is telling us it’s Ultra Magnas’s fault. As they are spending 40 billion in Ukraine. 40 billion would buy a lot of beans and rice for the US.
$40B would have built one hell of a “big, beautiful wall,” but somehow the money didn’t exist for Trump to secure OUR country. Now the American Southwest is dealing with drought, but we still need to provide MILLIONS of “low income” ILLEGAL ALIENS with FREE WATER!!!
“40 billion would buy a lot of beans and rice for the US”
not if the beans and rice don’t exist ….
which, by the way, is the argument against gold/silver being money during grid down ….
????
$ 40 billion to Ukraine? Horrific. The supporters are flirting with
a WWIII and retaliation from Russia. No point in worrying how
much or little our .gov “cares” about US people. They would see us
all dead for their place in the great banquet hall and their chair.
Apart from bankrupting the people consider the poison contaminating
pretty much everything in our environment, on purpose.
So, We know the horsemen have already left their “stable”.
“You will hear of wars and rumors of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed – until all the ice cream machines at McDonalds are out of order – even out where the white people live. Then shit’s getting real, so get thyself to Aldi and buy up all the oatmeal.”
Mickey D’s ice cream machines are too complicated with electronics to be worked on by normal techs. Dairy Queen always has ice cream, you just cannot find a DQ
You always can in Texas.
I’ve got one a mile from here.
Not very many in W TN.
There is no bird flu beyond what has been directed by the WEF.
I will eat any chicken that was walking around 5 minutes before its death.
How do you feel about pussy?
1) Canada has 145 million chickens, and has lost 1.7 million. Alrighty then, guess they will all starve.
2) US has 600 million fowl. Guess they will starve, too.
3) lakes aren’t drying up so much as they are they are being sucked dry.
A day ago there was an article that talked about too many people. Fuck yes there are too many people. Fifty million people in CA largely in a desert is not a problem? Sucking water out of every system in Africa to try to support unfettered population growth is not a problem?
Something has to give, and it will.
Fresh (well, grocery store fresh) okra cost me $6.99 a pound. Seems like there should be a bible verse about that.
Nobody wants to grow okra because it is labor intensive and a real pain to harvest. I hope to get a bunch of it for the freezer this year. Last year it did not do well and we are the last of it Jan 1.
I’m uncertain how the Great Salt Lake in Utah is fairing these days. It seems the issue is much more severe than the area simply being a desert like environment.
Great Salt is so salty, is it used for anything? Wasn’t aware it was. It it dries up, not sure it affects anything at all.
It’s got some shit in it that someone thinks is worth something.