Leo Hohmann – leohohmann.com April 19, 2022
Decision adds to worries about coming food shortages
CF Industries, the nation’s largest manufacturer of fertilizers, is warning its customers that fertilizer shipments will be delayed and may not reach farmers in time for the critical spring planting season because of a move by Union Pacific Railroad to limit the volume on private boxcars carried by its rail lines.
The railroad company ordered CF Industries and 29 other shippers cut their volume by 20 percent. Union Pacific says the reductions are needed to reduce congestion, but CF Industries said it would ask federal regulators to intervene and end the railroad restrictions.
Why Union Pacific would single out the nation’s largest fertilizer producer just as it is trying to get its product to farmers in time for spring planting is suspicious, to say the least.
Mike Adams is reporting that rail carriers are also partially halting transportation of livestock feed grain, potentially forcing farmers to slaughter their cows and chickens if they can’t get enough grain to feed them. This would further drive up prices of dairy products such as milk, eggs, yogurt, etc.
The railroad-mandated shipping reductions not only means shipping delays for farmers but CF Industries said it would be unable to accept new orders involving Union Pacific rail transportation for the foreseeable future.
CF Industries announced its dire predicament April 14 on its website. This disruption in the delivery of fertilizers comes at a time of steadily escalating food prices at grocery stores nationwide due to supply chain disruptions, War between Russia and Ukraine, China hording global grain supplies, weather-related crop failures and other issues, all adding up to a perfect storm for global famine.
Unless American farmers produce a bumper crop this fall, the rampant food price inflation will continue to intensify, driving prices up even faster and leading to more shortages on the store shelves heading into late 2022 and 2023.
CF Industries ships to customers via Union Pacific rail lines primarily from its Donaldsonville Complex in Louisiana and its Port Neal Complex in Iowa. The rail lines serve key agricultural states in America’s heartland, including Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska and Texas, as well as California.
Products that will be affected include nitrogen fertilizers such as urea and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) as well as diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), an emissions control product required for diesel trucks.
CF Industries is the largest producer of urea, UAN and DEF in North America, and its Donaldsonville Complex is the largest single production facility for the products in North America.
Tony Will, president and chief executive of CF Industries, summed up the direness of the situation in a press release reproduced below:
“The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers. Not only will fertilizer be delayed by these shipping restrictions, but additional fertilizer needed to complete spring applications may be unable to reach farmers at all. By placing this arbitrary restriction on just a handful of shippers, Union Pacific is jeopardizing farmers’ harvests and increasing the cost of food for consumers.
“On Friday, April 8, Union Pacific informed CF Industries without advance notice that it was mandating certain shippers to reduce the volume of private cars on its railroad effective immediately. The Company was told to reduce its shipments by nearly 20 percent.
“CF Industries believes it will still be able to fulfill delivery of product already contracted for rail shipment to Union Pacific destinations, albeit with likely delays. However, because Union Pacific has told the company that noncompliance will result in the embargo of its facilities by the railroad, CF Industries may not have available shipping capacity to take new rail orders involving Union Pacific rail lines to meet late season demand for fertilizer.”
The application of nitrogen fertilizer is critical to maximizing crop yields. If farmers are unable to secure all the nitrogen fertilizer that they require in the current season because of supply chain disruptions such as rail shipping restrictions, the Company expects yield will be lower. This will likely extend the timeline to replenish global grains stocks. Low global grains stocks continue to support high front month and forward prices for nitrogen-consuming crops, which has contributed to higher food prices.
CF Industries intends to engage directly with the federal government to ask that fertilizer shipments be prioritized so that spring planting is not adversely impacted.
“CF Industries’ North American manufacturing network continues to produce at a high rate to meet the needs of customers, farmers and consumers,” said Will. “We urge the federal government to take action to remove these Union Pacific rail shipment restrictions to ensure this vital fertilizer will be able to reach U.S. farmers when and where they need it.”
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UKRANINAN REFUGEES
Many of these folk being people trafficked into the UK
are now working in the fields picking crops.
The Russian jewish mafia billionaires expelled by Putin were brought to the UK by Tony Blair, thes mafia types employ Rusian gangmasters
many come in on forged polish passports, they will not employ Brits
the reason being in the worlds of Oleg Constantinov
is becuse these Rusians own scores of houses, they put up o 30 people in each house, they charge them for;-
Accommodation
Food
overalls
Transport to the farms and factories
insurance and protection?
This means the workers only recieve half what they earn.
Shropshires are the biggest food processors in the country
they say they have no choice but work with these people
they also say with soil improvers fertilisers and growth promoters costs going up by next year each lettuce will cost £ 2-50
Lynn Dr-Forest Rothschild said 10 years ago they would be going into food production distribution and control.
Flat Earthers: note the “crepuscular tracks” proving that the two tracks meet each other just a short way up the way and all trains will be de-railed on this line because engineers are just as silly as Flat Earthers.
Let’s hope that if this deliberate starvation plan (see The Jew Stalins Ukrainian starvation plan)…that the American public will finally use their guns for what they were intended…..to take down corrupt government when all other options had failed.
If Americans point their guns at each other they’ll lose badly.
TIGHTEN YOUR BELT !
Excellent. Hope for societal meltdown so a pro-white fascist horde (like the one from Pink Floyd’s movie ‘The Wall’) can materialize, hunt down the scum & ‘clean up the mess’…for only anarchy can confer carte blanche & eliminate Nonwhite Supremacy & the Zionist-Communist State. And then after the racial revolution we will establish our new civilization..
This is all deliberate in order to break us down and make us totally dependent on our governments for our basics. It is Act III of the NWO Kabuki theater. Covid, the Ukrainian war, it is all psyop and pretext killing real people with bioweapons and real bullets for total domination over us, their final enemy. Without their total control of the mainstream media through the money power and coercion they would have no control over the issues, our election processes, or the people in positions of power and authority. The more we can get people to tune out from the MSM the greater chance there will be for truth, freedom, justice and a civilization based on real trust.
Gosh, who would have ever guess the little devils would use food
as a weapon of war or peace..
@ lewis jones
GOOD POINT !
Let’s simplify the equation concerning global warming. What, according to the global warming crowd, is responsible for global warming? Human activity. So what’s the easiest way of controlling and reducing carbon emissions responsible for global warming.
Revelation 6:8 KJVS
[8] And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
I wonder who them is in the above scripture?
CF Industries, Top stockholders :
Vanguard Group
Rowe Price
Blackrock
Union Pacific, Top Stockholers:
Vanguard Group
Blackrock
the worlds largest asset managers,,,
,,,corporate governance, they control the flow- get the picture ?
Government racism criminality and malfeasance is nothing new.
I was a postman in Kngs Lynn Norfolk 20 years ago.
I saw more managerial bullying on sexual and racist grounds than you would ever believe
racism was directed at those fleeing London and buying our houses and taking our jobs,
and women workers were harassed for sexual favours.
I saw so many slid out of their jobs on trumped up charges, the two managers wanted the best postal football team in the country, and men were got rid of to make way for those good at football.
The Royal Mail had the worst record in the whole of Europe every year for Harassment
we had 2 suicides in our office, but Kings Lynn had to be the worst.
At the end of each day managers would take home a carrier bag of items stolen that day from the mail, a great scam would be to gently peel stamps off letters and parcels, send a card saying it had to be collected then selling the same stamps back to the customer and pocketing the money
managers claimed to be sharing £30 a week each from this scam.
All covered up and kept quiet by the offical secrets act