“As bad as the agricultural outlook is in America, it is far worse in Europe. The dedication to a green energy suicide pact on the continent is colliding with the news Russia will not ship any fossil fuels until the West lifts sanctions. The skyrocketing energy prices have farmers leaving crops in the fields to die.”
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Yup, agriculture is an energy intense industry. The electric company to the north of us on Delmarva requested a 40% increase in their rates, and will probably get most of it. Our coop electric company members voted to allow the coop to set its own rates and it has gone up 17% already. Electricity cost is a major drain on our chicken check…that and propane use to heat the biddies. We haven’t had a raise from Tyson since 2017.
Energy, energy, energy…no chickens or eggs without energy. The poultry companies are crying the blues because it is costing so much more to feed the chickens, and on the Shore, more will have to be brought in. We have had a lot of rain early on and then 4 weeks of no rain and high temperatures that just ended. Pods fell off soybeans and corn failed to produce…depending upon when the seed was planted, and nearly everyone cut back on commercial fertilizer, especially nitrogen.
The crop reports will reflect the shock of the experts, who neglected to pay attention to the drought, the floods, the lack of fertilizer and the heavily increased cost of all chemicals, equipment and parts…if you can get them… and fuel.
This is not a time to ignore warnings of shortages, but most will until it is too late. Normalcy bias at work again. It can happen here. America is changing and the nation is in jeopardy.
Yes, I’ve heard predictions that it’s going to get as bad (or worse) than the Great Depression.
The infuriating thing is, it was completely avoidable, because it’s all due to deliberately harmful leftist “climate change” BULLSHIT.
Thanks, Jeanne, for the information.
It’s going to be really bad.
Well, Jillian, prepare for the worst, but gratefully accept less. Rather have it and not need it, than need it and not have it.
But, who knows? I tend to think it will be bad. If we pay attention to the rest of the world, there is no reason to think that we will escape hard times just because we are America.
Especially not when our own government is more gung-ho about committing economic suicide than most other countries in the world!