https://thefederalist.com/2022...threatens-the-world/
If Ukraine supplies so much Wheat and fertilizer, and they can't plant or produce, and our bumbling POTUS
won't open up more land, and more energy, what do you think? I bought a three month supply from My Patriot
six months ago. Maybe stock up some more. Maybe more canned goods and rice,beans?

Get non-perishable staples and plant as big a garden as you can handle and have the space for. There’s no telling where political stupidity will put us by the time some adults get back in charge.

I have been baking my own bread for about a year now. I use King Arthur bread flour. I buy 10lb bags at BJs wholesale club.
Last two trips to Bjs they had no King Arthur flour.

Looked at my local Publix for King Arthur and all they had was 5lb bags and the price had almost doubled since the last time I had purchased some from them late last year.

Luckily I can order from BJs on line and my wife found the 10lb bags. I purchased two 10lb bags. Within a week of receiving them the price had gone up.

A friend who also bakes his own bread told me the suppler he gets his grains from ( he mills his own flour and buys in bulk) was limiting how much people would be able to purchase due to shortages.

People in this country have no idea what a food shortage really is. When you start to see food lines, people fighting over food (think toilet paper shortage) we are in BIG BIG trouble, and whoever is sitting in the White House, no mater what party they are from.

I think you need to stack it deeper than three months whatever method you use. Freeze dried is great if you can afford it but beans, rice, and cans will work and don't forget water and a way to filter it. Self-sufficiency is best though. And by all means don't forget..........

I find this whole Ukraine=food shortage complete bs. it is the cover story for many things. It isn't even as big as Texas. I am mostly ignoring all of it. What is going on has little to do with any of it

Ice Age Farmer has been reporting on this for quite a while.

https://www.bitchute.com/video/85CxNYe1ijIa/




For those interested, here is a link to his Bitchute and Odysee pages.

https://www.bitchute.com/iceagefarmer/

https://odysee.com/@iceagefarmer

Ukraine isn't inspecting our poultry grow out operations and condemning a million birds for one avian flu case. Considering the grow out cycle of a chicken is about 60 days its generally low impact on the market.

Some estimates of food supply forecast a 15% decline in availability. Next time in public, look around - Americans could stand a 15% weight loss. We can weather it out. It's largely more of the same scamdemic pressure being used for political purposes.

Compare our dietary excesses to a 3rd world country like Somalia, a 15% reduction in junk food would do us good. Add inflationary pressure and a lot will pare their shopping 15% to essentials anyway. In the 60's a chip maker had a rack in the grocery store - now the store has 45 feet of chips, another aisle of cookies, another aisle of ice cream, I could go on. Grocery stores are double the size of the supermarkets then, but not double the nutritional value.

I'm recovering from surgical dental extractions, can't eat that stuff right now, so maybe it's just sour grapes on my part. Then again, I found a pair of jeans I can squeeze back into. Looking at the sizing racks at a DAV or Salvation recyle store, I used to buy Small, then moved to Medium, now Large. The racks have moved up, too. S/M is on rack, L a half rack, XL a full rack, XXL another.

This might actually do a lot of people some good. Being Infantry, tho I tend to approach challenges with an "embrace the suck" attitude.

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Originally posted by Schmelby:
https://thefederalist.com/2022...threatens-the-world/
If Ukraine supplies so much Wheat and fertilizer, and they can't plant or produce, and our bumbling POTUS
won't open up more land, and more energy, what do you think? I bought a three month supply from My Patriot
six months ago. Maybe stock up some more. Maybe more canned goods and rice,beans?

Have no fear. Lots of artificial meat companies have conveniently started up in the last few years.
You'll love it.

https://vegfaqs.com/lab-grown-meat-companies/

My question for the last year has been whether this is mostly fear porn and we'll just see higher food prices, or if common grocery items will become unavailable.

Local farmers are seeing very high prices for chemicals and fertilizers. The state and feds are killing off chickens in midwest states after using PCR tests to 'find' birdflu. One egg producer in Iowa responded by closing the plant and saying they don't intend to re-open.

Prices for many grocery items have gone up 20% to 100% for many items at local Aldi stores in the last six months, but most items are available.

What's your bet for the rest of the year? Can food producers handle all this and recover, or is it time to make half the back yard a garden to grow more of our own food?

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Originally posted by bryan11:

is it time to make half the back yard a garden to grow more of our own food?

I was eight years old when WW2 ended. I remember the Victory Gardens.

Rural and suburban folks had room for vegetable gardens, but I was a city dweller. There were small pieces of land in the city, divided into smaller sections. A family could have a small section for a Victory Garden. I remember the neighbors watching over it, to guard agains poachers.

Bird flu? Thought I died from that already. All this shortage crap is just setting us up for huge price increases which is what is really coming. Then everyone can blame it on the shortages and not Biden. I have at least a years worth of protein in the freezer. Pantry is stocked deep with canned and dry goods and just started seed pods with tomatoes, and other garden goods. I'm accustomed to open fire cooking and I can hunt and fish. I don't participate in shortages.

As a meat manufacturer, I've seen a lot of shit since March 2020.

I had 42 employees that month and went down to 7. Cut 2nd shift completely. PPP loan helped and I brought back 40 when I resumed full production.

In that time until now, I've had meat shortages and prices have gone up substantially. At one time there were people to slaughter cows, pigs, chickens, etc but barely anyone to further process. Labor shortage and Covid played parts.

The American farmer now has been priced to death with everything they need to stay afloat. Grain farmers also.

Right now I'm not really seeing any shortages in meat but the trucking industry is hurting it also. Diesel is sky high and trucking companies are dropping loads to go after higher paying opportunities. I've had several truck loads of meat dropped and that includes pick up too. I ship to California, Oregon, Nebraska, Tennessee, Florida, New York and a few more states.

This year is going to be interesting for sure.

Kinda interesting (or convenient for some) that we've skipped from Covid, to the war in Ukraine, to pending food shortages, to a potential WWIII. It seems a crisis is always just around the corner. Its almost as if some group is attempting to keep this country constantly distracted, on edge, and in total chaos causing most people to look to government to do more to keep everyone safe and fix things. Thank goodness I don't have much tinfoil in the house.

We just started kidding season here on the farm this week. I also have lots of the Kings Deer in the field out back. We raise 50 meat chickens and have 3 dozen layers. We get a hog from a neighbor every year. We turned a bedroom into a pantry years ago, We buy flour in 50# bags and store it in buckets. Same with sugar. We have a garden and orchard plus forage wild fruit and berries to preserve. My wife cans lots of stuff.

We could probably go a year without going to the store if need be.

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
Kinda interesting (or convenient for some) that we've skipped from Covid, to the war in Ukraine, to pending food shortages, to a potential WWIII. It seems a crisis is always just around the corner. Its almost as if some group is attempting to keep this country constantly distracted, on edge, and in total chaos causing most people to look to government to do more to keep everyone safe and fix things. Thank goodness I don't have much tinfoil in the house.

Government and media holding hands.
Government wants you to rely on them, the media just wants viewers.
Chaos sells just as good as sex and death.

I have a year round spring fed creek and a big berky filter. Been telling myself to take a sample of the water to the county for a test but haven’t done it yet. Worst case I can boil and filter. The deer and possums and other critters don’t seem to mind it. Of course this being hurricane zone and hotter than blazes most of the year, I keep extra cases of bottled water on hand anyway and always have plenty cold in the spare fridge.

Was at Walmart last night and they had fresh boneless skinless chicken breasts for 1.99 pound. We eat chicken pork or beef usually 3-5 nights a week and go vegetarian/pasta the other nights. They haven’t had it in months ( or had it and sold out but I usually do about 3x a week). Publix and Winn Dixie have it consistently but for at least 2x that price and nearly 4x for organic at publix. We usually keep a healthy amount of canned goods and rice/ beans dry goods on hand and as long as the power hoods up we’ll be ok. Plus a small garden and some egg laying hens. Same Walmart has been perpetually out of spaghetti and other pastas for months. It’s available elsewhere but I’m a cheap bastard and try to buy bulk and as cheap as possible.

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We have a garden and orchard plus forage wild fruit and berries to preserve. My wife cans lots of stuff.

We could probably go a year without going to the store if need be.

That's the way my grandma ran her pantry.

As for the unending multiple crisis verging on catastrophe, check out "Hegelian Dialect". Old political trick.

And just where are those news clips of endless US wheatlands & the horrors of over plowing while feeding the world?

BD and JM nailed it about the politicians and media.

It's made worse by people blindly repeating it as idle chit chat about prices for food, gasoline, etc.

I like Bill Murray's response in Groundhogs Day to idle weather chit chat. I do something similar on gasoline prices (i.e. it's a commodity and the price you're saying is higher than any future price. If you believe what you're saying you should invest).

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Originally posted by Appliance Brad:
We just started kidding season here on the farm this week. I also have lots of the Kings Deer in the field out back. We raise 50 meat chickens and have 3 dozen layers. We get a hog from a neighbor every year. We turned a bedroom into a pantry years ago, We buy flour in 50# bags and store it in buckets. Same with sugar. We have a garden and orchard plus forage wild fruit and berries to preserve. My wife cans lots of stuff.

We could probably go a year without going to the store if need be.

THAT IS AWESOME! Good old fashioned self-sufficiency, and combined with a bit of neighborly cooperation...Downright American!!

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Originally posted by bigdeal:
Kinda interesting (or convenient for some) that we've skipped from Covid, to the war in Ukraine, to pending food shortages, to a potential WWIII. It seems a crisis is always just around the corner.

Glenn Beck has been hammering on this for 10+ years now. It’s ALL on purpose.

These globalist/leftist shitheads are intent on flooding the zone with crisis after crisis so that people cry out for help from their governments who are all too happy to “help” via further loss of liberty and economic freedom.