Archive for the 'Food' Category
“Will Famine Emerge by Year End? Yes.”
April 8th, 2022Via: Peak Prosperity:
Manure Supplies Run Short as Fertilizer Prices Soar
April 6th, 2022Just pull up to a Biden press conference and haul off as much as you need. Via: Reuters: For nearly two decades, Abe Sandquist has used every marketing tool he can think of to sell the back end of a cow. Poop, after all, needs to go somewhere. The Midwestern entrepreneur has worked hard to […]
UK Sleepwalking Into Food Crisis As Fresh Produce Set To Vanish From Supermarkets
April 1st, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: The National Farmers’ Union has warned the UK is sleepwalking into a food security crisis. Soaring energy and fertilizer costs have led to an unprecedented situation where growers’ margins have collapsed, forcing many to halt growing operations. Reuters says because of the inclement weather in the UK. Farmers grow cumbers, plant peppers, aubergines, […]
Biden Casually Says Food Shortage “Going To Be Real” As Necessary “Price” Of Anti-Russia Sanctions
March 24th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: Nothing to see here… only the President of the United States speaking at an emergency summit of NATO heads making somewhat overly casual sounding references regarding likely massive energy and food shortages… “It’s going to be real,” Biden said at a news conference in Brussels. “The price of the sanctions is not just […]
Ukraine’s Farmers Stalled, Fueling Fears of Global Food Shortages
March 11th, 2022Via: Reuters: The Russian invasion of Ukraine threatens millions of tiny spring-time sprouts that should emerge from stalks of dormant winter wheat in the coming weeks. If the farmers can’t feed those crops soon, far fewer of the so-called tillers will spout, jeopardizing a national wheat harvest on which millions in the developing world depend. […]
Ukraine Bans Wheat & Grain Exports Vital To Global Food Supply, Citing Citizens Under Siege
March 9th, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: Ukraine, known as the “breadbasket of Europe” given it’s long been among the world’s top ten wheat exporters and supplied over $6 billion in agricultural products to the European Union in 2020, has issued an emergency order Wednesday banning the export of grains and other products. The ban includes the export of wheat, […]
Food Prices Jump 20.7%, Hit Record High in Feb
March 5th, 2022Via: Reuters: World food prices hit a record high in February, led by a surge in vegetable oils and dairy products, to post a 20.7% increase year-on-year, the U.N. food agency said on Friday.
“Breadbasket Of World” Choked Off By Russian Invasion As Wheat Prices Soar
March 1st, 2022Via: ZeroHedge: Ukraine has earned the nickname “breadbasket of Europe” for its rich dark soil, vast wheat fields, and other farm goods. The Russian invasion has cut off the world from cheap and abundant wheat supplies. Ukraine and Russia are vital to the global food supply, accounting for more than a quarter of global wheat […]
‘Grocery Cartels’ Control What Americans Eat, Where They Shop for Food
December 1st, 2021*snort* You haven’t seen a grocery cartel until you’ve come to New Zealand. Via: The Defender: “Grocery cartels” comprised of corporate monopolies controlling most of what Americans eat and drink — and the supermarkets in which they shop — have created a false illusion of consumer choice in a system that’s also draining local communities […]
North American Fertilizer Shortage
November 25th, 2021Via: Guardian: A global shortage of nitrogen fertilizer is driving prices to record levels, prompting North America’s farmers to delay purchases and raising the risk of a spring scramble to apply the crop nutrient before planting season. Farmers apply nitrogen to boost yields of corn, canola and wheat, and higher fertilizer costs could translate into […]
