Oh dear, yes. The Just in Time process is scary as all get out, when one considers the current shortages. But that is how companies operate and have for a long time. They don’t have parts, pieces, paint, etc. to complete a manufactured item until they are building that item and need that part in the next 20 minutes.
Food and toiletries arrive 3 times a day for most grocery stores. There is nothing in the back, that is not being moved out and shelved at the time that you ask, “Do you have any of (name your item) in the back?”
Let’s talk about farming. Fertilizer, of which the major ingredients we get from Russia and China, had gone up 300% as of a month ago. And…it is IF the farmer can get it. Most likely Russia will “choose” to not send us those ingredients. China? Why would they? So…we probably won’t be able to get it or buy it if we can get it.
Pesticide? Insecticide? Same situation. Prices are sky-rocketing. Diesel? Gasoline? Do you think it is going to get cheaper, now that Biden has banned Russian crude? Do you think he will stop regulating US petroleum and coal or spend more money on wind and solar? Well, if there is a farm tractor or combine that runs on solar or windmill electricity, I don’t know of them. Oh and fertilizer is a petroleum product, by the way.
Seed prices are rising beyond credibility…because they can! We, a small farm, will need…at this time…to earn $7 a bushel for corn and $15 a bushel for soybeans, if we are going to farm the season after this.
Shoes. Some shoe makers do not have the materials to make the shoes to send to the stores. And, most of the shoes are not made in the US.
Will there be famine? That would certainly make the elite globalists/environmental-wackos happy. We know that most famines are actually caused by distribution problems. There is no reason that in any country people are dying of hunger. What used to be famine was caused by continuous bad weather or natural disasters. The US can feed the hungry, if we are allowed to. It is distribution that keeps us from doing so. Tyrants, dictators, wars, Islam…
Metals, wood, drugs…lack of materials and/or distribution problems.
Truckers are filling up their semis to the tune of $600 to $900, depending upon where they are, every day or every other day. How long will it be worth starting their trucks in the morning.
This past Summer, Virgil needed a replacement hydraulic hose for a tractor (the one that he plants with) and his guy at Atlantic Tractor searched for weeks before he found one that he worked a trade on to get the guy that had it to send it to him. Did we want it? Because it was the only one he could find…IN THE COUNTRY! Yes, we did and were happy to pay the price. A hydraulic hose for this specific tractor! Hoses that need to be replaced often!
On the Delmarva Peninsula, chicken country for the North East USA, we have had months of trouble buying chicken. Finally a couple of weeks ago, there was chicken in a grocery store that was leaving the cooler as fast as the worker was bringing it out. Virgil happened to be there just in time and bought some frying parts. When he got home and I went to wrap it for freezing dinners for us, IT WAS PREVIOUSLY FROZEN CHICKEN! Not from here. Who knows where it came from? Not chicken from the Delmarva Peninsula.