We Are 6 Months From Global Food Shortages Because Farmers Are Facing A Quadruple Whammy Crisis
Now, keep in mind a few things:
- I think this article is somewhat, "overpumped"
- I live on a family farm in SK, and believe me, this IS a real deal. Our family farm seeding around 2000 ac is costing over a 1/4 Million to plant, and that's somewhat skimping on fertilizer, not incl fuel or repairs, or parts(if you can find them).........let that sink in for a moment. Keep in mind crop prices have been in the toilet for the last couple years. Personally I expect a lot of farms to fail, shortly, especially the, "big one's" who rent land and lease equipment". Cough, monette, cough.
- If you pay attention you know the seriousness of the drought in the US. Some large geographical area's crops are not being planted as there's no point. I'm not talking about one or two states. Don't believe me stop using the g word search engine and do some research.
- Our reliance on reliable crops has led us into a false sense of security; the theory has been, the prairies are crap, poland, ukraine, au or russia will fill the gap. You need to comprehend that the current system doesn't plan for massive failure, and that's what may well be happening.
Anyway, scoff all you like, and keep those elbow's up, lol.
We have never faced anything quite like this. Diesel fuel and fertilizer have become far more expensive as a result of the conflict in the Middle East, and extreme weather is playing havoc with crops all over the planet. Here in the United States, we just experienced the driest first three months of a year in recorded history. No, that isn’t an exaggeration. Now a “Super El Niño” is coming, and that means that drought conditions are going to get even worse in many areas of the world. The “Super El Niño” of 1877-1878 resulted in widespread droughts that killed more than 50 million people, and now we are being warned that the upcoming “Super El Niño” could be even worse. Our farmers have never faced a “perfect storm” of this magnitude, and global food production is going to be way down in the months ahead.
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization is publicly warning that a severe global food crisis could strike about 6 months from now if something really dramatic does not happen…
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I don’t know what national governments around the world are supposed to do.
They can’t create fertilizer out of thin air.
Thanks to the closure of the Strait of Hormuz by Iran, millions of farmers all over the northern hemisphere didn’t get the fertilizer that they needed for the spring planting season.
UNDP Administrator Alexander De Croo is telling us that as a result “many places in the world will have problems of food shortage” once harvest season arrives…
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Even if fertilizer is available, many farmers simply cannot afford it.
In fact, one recent survey discovered that 70 percent of U.S. farmers could not afford to buy all of the fertilizer that they needed for the spring planting season because it has become so expensive.
Meanwhile, diesel has become painfully expensive as well.
Virtually all farm equipment runs on diesel, and as I write this article the average price of a gallon of diesel in the U.S. is sitting at about five and a half dollars.
But in California, the average price of a gallon of diesel has reached nearly seven and a half dollars…
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You may not care about what is happening in California, but you should because California produces more fruit and more vegetables than any other state by a very wide margin.
Drought is another major problem that U.S. farmers are dealing with.
In West Texas, the cracks in the ground caused by endless drought are big enough to swallow an entire human hand…
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Coming into this year, the southwestern portion of the nation was experiencing the worst multi-year drought in at least 1,200 years.
And then the first three months of this year were the driest first three months of a year for the entire country ever recorded.
As a result, it is being projected that the winter wheat harvest will be a disaster…
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This year, only 22 million acres of winter wheat will be harvested, and the abandonment rate is above 32 percent…
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Just think about those numbers for a moment.
Our farmers simply gave up on nearly a third of this year’s winter wheat crop.
Wow.
Looking ahead, we are being told that the number of acres of wheat that U.S. farmers are planting in the spring will be the fewest “since record keeping began in 1919”…
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In 1919, there were 104 million people living in the United States.
Today, there are more than 340 million people living in the United States.
It doesn’t take a math genius to figure out that we are headed for trouble.
And now a “Super El Niño” is looming…
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One expert is warning that there is approximately a 50 percent chance that this “Super El Niño” will be the most powerful ever recorded…
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In a previous article, I discussed the fact that the “Super El Niño” of 1877-1878 caused widespread global famines that resulted in the deaths of 50 million people.
So how many will die during the “Super El Niño” that will begin later this year?
According to the UN, the number of people around the world there were experiencing acute hunger was already at an all-time record high even before the war with Iran started.
Now global hunger is spiking, and when people get really hungry they get really desperate.
For example, just check out what is going on in Afghanistan…
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This should break your heart.
One extremely hungry man in Afghanistan says that he is willing to sell his own daughters just so that he will have enough money to buy food…
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This is what is already happening.
Six months from now, the level of desperation around the world will be so much worse.
We need the Strait of Hormuz to be reopened as soon as possible, but that simply is not going to happen.
The Iranians are never going to give President Trump what he wants, and they are preparing for the next phase of the war…
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The next chapter of this war is not going to look like the last chapter.
The IRGC is openly telling us that they are ready to attack “in places you cannot even imagine”…
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The Iranians know that they cannot win the war by fighting symmetrically.
So they are going to use asymmetric tools to get the job done.
And some of those asymmetric tools will not be conventional.
When fighting erupts again, I expect things to get really crazy.
What this means is that the Strait of Hormuz is going to remain closed for a long time, and that is really bad news for farmers all over the globe.