{"id":250846,"date":"2022-03-14T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2022-03-14T08:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=250846"},"modified":"2022-03-15T07:21:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-15T07:21:03","slug":"no-one-is-talking-about-the-mass-food-shortage-and-grocery-bill-increases-us-is-barreling-toward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=250846","title":{"rendered":"No One Is Talking About the Mass Food Shortage and Grocery Bill Increases US Is Barreling Toward"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Farmers are struggling to obtain fertilizer since Russia halted exports to the west, leading to fears of food shortages this summer and fall. (Mark Hirsch \/ Getty Images)<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Mike Landry \u2013 Western Journal March 12, 2022<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p>Given the arrogance of Those Who Know Best in their attempt to control, of all things, a pandemic, do you think they\u2019ll do better when Americans start paying astronomical prices at the grocery store?<\/p>\n<p>Or begin to go hungry?<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re heading in that direction.<\/p>\n<p>With the elites poking at the Russian bear and trying to get us into World War III but in a way where they think none of us gets hurt, we are now facing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ukraine-war-will-cause-global-food-crisis-crop-yields-will-drop-catastrophic-50-ceo\/\">food shortages<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That could mean possible monthly grocery costs rising by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/ukraine-war-will-cause-global-food-crisis-crop-yields-will-drop-catastrophic-50-ceo\/\">$1,000<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the beginning of crop planting time. Crops need fertilizer. And through the brilliant mechanisms of globalism, guess where we get a lot of our fertilizer?<\/p>\n<p>Russia. They provide two-thirds of the world\u2019s supply, according to Fox\u2019s Laura Ingraham.<\/p>\n<p>And they\u2019re temporarily <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/russia-strikes-back-western-sanctions-threatens-world-food-supply-heinous-move\/\">shutting down<\/a> their fertilizer exports.<\/p>\n<p>So there\u2019s one more log being added to the out-of-control inflation fire.<\/p>\n<p>You already know about that fire when it comes to food \u2014 those prices are up by 7 percent year-to-year as of January, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.<\/p>\n<p>And that new fertilizer inflation log is a big one \u2014 enough, maybe, to set the whole house ablaze.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8t3ohqoeknw\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to get hit on every front, on every expense possible,\u201d Oklahoma farmer Ben Neal told Ingraham, \u201cFrom fertilizers to fuel to labor, insurance \u2013 everything in between [including] our packing supplies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Neal\u2019s farm operates on a farm-to-market business model, so he has direct fuel costs for transportation. But every farmer essentially faces the same thing \u2013 crops need to be transported to processors and final markets and there are increasing fuel costs to power the trucks, trains, barges and ships that make that happen.<\/p>\n<p>But that\u2019s the harvest. Right now there\u2019s the problem of planting the crops in the first place, with their attendant fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p>Already experiencing inflation, Neal predicts fertilizer will drive his costs up by about 25 to 30 percent, \u201cAnd I think that will soon be reflected at the grocery stores \u2026 on top of what we\u2019re already seeing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese fertilizer prices haven\u2019t really affected the grocery store prices yet. They will start coming this summer,\u201d according to Neal.<\/p>\n<p>Farmers are at the bottom of the food-supply pecking order, subject to commodity pricing outside of their control. And costs further along the supply chain for processing, packaging, transporting, distributing and general retailing may have their own inflation issues which bump prices beyond the 25-30 percent fertilizer cost increases Neal predicts for his farm.<\/p>\n<p>So with costs for fuel and everything else going up, there\u2019s no telling where prices will end up without Russian fertilizer.<\/p>\n<p>But some good may come about \u2014 people may no longer be able to afford chips, ice cream and other junk and may have to turn to healthier selections of fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n<p>As with earlier generations, hunting and fishing may come to be about more than recreation and sport.<\/p>\n<p>And another thing: With food rationing during World War II, what did people do? They planted victory gardens.<\/p>\n<p>We could plant a new generation of victory gardens, named for anticipated triumph over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/world-faces-food-shortage-biden-pushes-american-farmers-take-fields-production\/\">short-sightedness of the elites<\/a> who get us into these messes.<\/p>\n<p>Which means that the peace sign people like to flash may return to its original meaning \u2014 victory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/no-one-talking-mass-food-shortage-grocery-bill-increases-us-barreling-toward\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia and Ukraine are two of the world\u2019s biggest grain exporters, so the ongoing conflict will impact food supplies. Together with Russia being the main producer of some vital fertilisers having just restricted exports in response to Western sanctions, we could soon see more rapidly rising food prices  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":250848,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-250846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Economics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=250846"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":250882,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250846\/revisions\/250882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/250848"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=250846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=250846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=250846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}