Germany: 50% crop loss due to drought in some regions

Up to half of the crops in parts of the German state of Baden-Württemberg are likely to be lost due to drought, farmers in the region have claimed, with problems to do with the prices of fuel, fertiliser, and pesticides connected to the green agenda and war in Ukraine also reportedly causing problems for those in the region

The serious lack of rainfall has led farmers to fear that the likes of maize, sugar beet, potato, and soybean crops could see losses of up to 50%.

#Germany #EU #drought

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/08/19/global-food-crisis-50-per-cent-crop-loss-likely-due-to-drought-german-farmers-say/

Even more concerning than 50% crop loss, is that farmers are already blowing through their winter animal feed. Clearly this means that by mid-winter, there will be no animal feed. Which means come late winter, unless things change somehow, there will be no livestock.

"To make matters worse, livestock farmers in the region are also now struggling, with many being forced to give animals feed meant to be kept for the winter as the amount of edible grass on the ground quite literally has dried up.

"Fodder that might otherwise be imported from Russia or Ukraine is proving hard to come by as a result of the former’s invasion the latter and the West’s resulting sanctions war with Moscow..."

#WarOnMeat #PostAnimalEconomy

https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2022/08/19/global-food-crisis-50-per-cent-crop-loss-likely-due-to-drought-german-farmers-say/ (see previous post)

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Aluminum producer Speira GmbH is considering cutting production at its German smelter to 50% of total capacity in response to surging energy costs that are squeezing power-intensive industries across Europe. The curtailment would add to the extreme toll that the energy crisis is having on Europe’s metals industry, which is one of the biggest industrial consumers of power and gas. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-23/german-aluminum-smelter-considers-halving-output-on-energy-costs#xj4y7vzkg

UK: Asda drops expiration dates on food.

@iceagefarmer note: I’d mentioned just two weeks ago that removing expiration dates from food was part of the EU “Farm to Fork” and Rockefeller “Reset the Table” discussions — and now we see it rolling out!

But, this is just a small change compared to the major changes coming for food #retail.

- ICYMI : End of the Grocery Store: welcome to the AI Commissary for the Prison Planet)

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1659832/asda-major-change-warning-customers-uk

Fire at Biggest US Midwest Refinery Threatens Fuel Supplies

An outage at the largest US Midwest refinery is raising wholesale fuel prices regionally just as the agricultural sector gears up for its busiest time of year.

BP shut two crude units at its 435,000 barrel-a-day Whiting, Indiana, refinery after a fire Wednesday, Wood Mackenzie’s Genscape said. The fire occurred in the power house and caused a loss of cooling water, which could lead to damaged equipment, according to a person familiar with operations.

*** A prolonged shutdown of the plant, which supplies gasoline, diesel and jet fuel to most of the region’s major distribution centers, could tighten fuel markets just as farmers in the nation’s breadbasket prepare for harvesting season. ***

@iceagefarmer note: just another coincidence I’m sure. Nothing to see here…

#WarOnFarms #fire

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-25/fire-at-biggest-us-midwest-refinery-threatens-fuel-supplies

I'm noticing there is VERY little to nothing about this catastrophe. But I did find this last night https://www.aggrestrat.com/department-of-transportation-declares-regional-emergency-following-bp-refinery-fire-in-indiana/?open=single and the fact that they've given governors emergency power declaration over this is so quickly very telling IMO...

Media invokes “new normal” to describe weather warfare, blames you and cow farts:

Are catastrophic floods Pakistan’s new normal?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/are-catastrophic-floods-pakistan-s-new-normal/ar-AA11lSUz

The USDA has stopped providing export data.

They declined to indicate why.

They neglected to provide a timeline for when this may be available again.

Regardless of the presumably forthcoming excuse, this is effectively an act of warfare as markets (domestic AND foreign) are now blind to what is going/coming from the US.

UPDATE: they now indicate there is an issue migrating to a new reporting system that should be resolved by mid september. Interesting date given futures contracts…

#FoodWars

Cargo vessel carrying 3k TONS of corn from Ukraine runs aground in Bosphorus - Black Sea access blocked

@iceagefarmer note: Remember: #Shipping is to be completely shut down under the Absolute Zero carbon agenda. Messing up the global food supply chain is just the cherry on top.

#AbsoluteZero

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1663521/Bosphorus-strait-Black-Sea-access-blocked-lady-zehma-cargo-grain-run-aground

Yuval Harari echoes the WEF claims that meat is “unsustainable” and we must end farming and ranching:

Yuval Noah Harari, historian, futurist, and World Economic Forum (WEF) adviser, described “cultured meat” synthesized in laboratories as more “ecological” and “ethical” than meat from animal husbandry and slaughter.

#WarOnMeat #PostAnimalEconomy

https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2022/08/30/yuval-noah-harari-cultured-meat-synthesized-labs-more-ethical-animal-husbandry/

USA: even the food supply is partisan, as “democrat-owned” restaurants stop ordering food from “republican” bakeries. Without further comment:

https://billypenn.com/2022/05/12/martins-potato-rolls-doug-mastriano-governor-philadelphia-restaurants/

60% of British factories/industry shutting down.

That would be the majority of their productive output. It’s pretty staggering when you think about it. This is a crash, not a soft landing.

Also what do you think this means for agriculture?!

#uk #EnergyCrisis

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-02/six-in-10-british-factories-at-risk-of-going-under-as-bills-soar

Biden/Trump have now mutually declared each other enemies of the state, within just the last days.

The stage is now set, and an extraordinarily dangerous show is about to begin. The USA likes to do things bigger and better, and this will be no exception. Once this kicks off there will be no stopping it, and I expect escalation of crises and conflicts worldwide.

Keep your wits about you and continue moving away from the system, towards self-sufficiency in food, energy, medicine, local markets/currencies. Radical and rapid decentralization is the only way forward.

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Sugar and Salt Shortage Worsens Philippines Food Supply Woes

A top soft-drinks maker with no sugar, a burger joint out of onions and kitchens short of salt underscore the dependence of the Philippines on food imports and illustrate some of the cost pressures fueling inflation.

The country not only buys sugar, salt and garlic from abroad, but also imports a raft of other food commodities such as rice, wheat, corn and soybean meal, and that’s after global farm prices surged to a record this year on the back of lower world supply caused by drought, heat and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.  

#FoodShortage

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-07/sugar-and-salt-shortage-worsens-philippines-food-supply-woes

Philippines government plans to CONFISCATE sugar and onions.

@iceagefarmer comment: I’ve mentioned so frequently that as net exporters move to protect their domestic stocks/prices, net importers are left empty handed — like Philippines here, resorting to confiscation of foodstuffs from private hands.

Sadly, we’ll see more of this in the days ahead.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-09-07/sugar-and-salt-shortage-worsens-philippines-food-supply-woes

🚨 Canada: wheat stocks down 38% year over year.

#canada #FoodPrices #wheat

The Dutch agriculture minister has unexpectedly resigned, telling reporters he wasn’t the right person for the job following a tumultuous summer of protests by farmers over pollution regulations. https://apnews.com/article/netherlands-pollution-belgium-c7dfb945b89db1bd869a04d2ba0a2173