German farmers (and beyond, in EU) are cutting losses: just cutting corn down now to salvage what they can (silage) from the drought-damaged corn crop — incalculable losses when world really needs every bit:

#Germany

Why is snowden saying "you will eat the crickets"?

And just wait til people find out about the cockroach milk...

Quarter million acres NOT growing food.

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/californias-farmland-rapidly-turns-dust-amid-water-crisis

Europe's industry comes screeching to a halt - zinc and aluminum production cut in half — aligns completely with the Absolute Zero agenda, but I'm sure it's just a nasty putin side effect:

#EnergyCrisis #AbsoluteZero

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-07-20/europe-s-power-crunch-cuts-zinc-and-aluminum-capacity-in-half

Alberta: 20-minute storm with 12 months of consequences: Farmers devastated by crop loss, hail storm.

"He guessed that fields that were in the storm’s path are anywhere between 40 to 100 per cent wiped out."

#Canada #GrandSolarMinimum

https://globalnews.ca/news/9002190/southern-alberta-storm-farmers-devastated-crop-loss/

The crash begins: AT&T tumbles as Americans have zero disposable income and stop paying their phone bills.

With food & energy inflating—and people have to eat!—this was something we’ve anticipated for years: rapidly rising food prices are the death knell of economy.

https://www.zerohedge.com/personal-finance/state-us-consumer-att-crashes-americans-cant-afford-pay-their-phone-bills

NEW - Biden's Energy Secretary: "We're witnessing the beginning of one of the most significant events in human history."

@disclosetv

Colder temps in Russia cause protein content in wheat to drop - even though the harvest is large, the prices of high-quality wheat are still rising:

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Poor weather over parts of Russia's main producing regions is likely to mean that the supply of higher protein wheat will remain in relatively tight supply - supporting an increased price gap between quality milling wheats and lower quality grades, trade sources have told Agricensus.

Russia is on course to deliver its biggest ever wheat crop, but higher yields and rains over some of the main Russian producing regions mean the crop currently being harvested is showing more 11.5% or feed grades were harvested so far compared to last year.

The price gap between the 12.5%, 11.5%, and feed wheat grades have been increasing over the last week with a gap of almost $16-17/mt seen between 11.5% and 12.5% grades in coaster-sized CIF Marmara trades last week, but offers on a deep sea port basis have also widened to show the same $17/mt differential.

#Wheat #russia

http://ikar.ru/eng/press.php?id=3362

Russia Sends Combine Harvesters to Occupied Regions of Ukraine

Russia has sent combine harvesters from Crimea to two Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine to cover a shortage of equipment needed to bring in the crop, a representative of a Russian-installed local administration said.

The official said the harvesters were needed because "the equipment that was there before had either been dismantled or taken away by the previous owners outside the regions", he said. [IAF: By those who are consistently working to destroy global food production]

Evgeny Balitsky, head of the occupation administration in Zaporizhzhia, said on social media that these combine harvesters were provided by Russia's agriculture ministry.

#FoodWars #Ukraine #Russia

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2022-07-22/russia-sends-combine-harvesters-to-occupied-regions-of-ukraine

They are winning the war on meat — protein pipeline shrinking. Are you growing/raising your own?

> USDA’s Cattle Inventory Report is expected to show U.S. cattle herd as of July 1 down 2.1% from year-ago.

The projected 2022 calf crop is expected to have shrunk another 2%.
Beef heifers held back for breeding are expected to be down 3.2% from last year.

#WarOnMeat

It may seem as though all is in disarray and things are simply spiraling out of control. But I must caution you that underneath that techno-fog of war, a machine continues to operate with great precision and efficiency.

That machine actively works to take land from farmers to construct massive “carbon pipelines” to carry CO2 and inject it deep into the earth to “store it safely out of the atmosphere.”

The machine is taking prime farmland to construct massive solar farms — in the heart of our corn belt in Indiana, Iowa , and Illinois just to pick three examples:

“This will be the last year that Norm Welker and his family harvests corn. But Welker will still be a farmer — he’s going to farm the sun.

“Welker is not alone: He is one of dozens of neighbors who are leasing their land for what will be the largest solar farm in the United States. At 13,000 acres [of prime crop land] it is aptly named the Mammoth Solar project and is a partnership between state of Indiana & Israeli-based Doral Renewables LLC!!!!

These are just a few waves visible across a vast ocean of green agenda shutdowns, regulations, and takeover of farming and ranching. And it's going into hyperdrive now under the "Climate Emergency."

>> Grow food. Raise animals. Support local farmers — cultivate local food systems! <<

join: @iceagefarmer

EDIT: As Dan points out from the chat : “Build that shit in the freaking desert you idiots”

PANAMA CITY (AP) — Three weeks of continuous demonstrations and road blockades to protest high fuel and food costs in Panama have begun to cause shortages of some food products, fuel and medicine.

The closures, including of the Pan-American Highway, have forced the national electric company to ration electricity in Darien province, which borders Colombia. Tankers carrying gas to run the power generation plant cannot arrive. Some 7,000 families have been affected by the reduction of electricity to 11 hours daily.

In Panama’s main wholesale market that supplies both supermarkets and individual consumers, there was little foot traffic Wednesday. Display tables usually stacked high with produce had far less on offer. Some vegetables like lettuce and tomatos, in particular, were in short supply.

https://news.yahoo.com/3-weeks-protests-panama-cause-190922478.html

#Panama

Friends, I will be on Coast to Coast AM tonight 10-11pm Pacific time with Ian Punnett, driving it home that the systems that fed and ran society are being attacked and systematically dismantled, and it is high time to grow food!

It should be a fun chance to reach a few million radio listeners, drop some solid red pills, but also offer hope! Not sure if Ian will take calls this time, but see you there!

Tune in 10pm PT! ->
https://www.coasttocoastam.com/show/2022-07-23-show/

On Coast-to-Coast AM —> Live here -> https://newstalk1290.com/listen-live/

If only there were some tool to keep track of which central banks were digital currencies … enter the Central Bank Digital Currency Tracker straight from the Atlantic council!

“Management” needed a top down view …

#cbdc

https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/cbdctracker/

tl;dr: European Commission predicts yield of wheat/barley/corn will be down 2.5% YoY due to drought, "experts" rush to blame climate change:

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Europe is staring into one of its driest summers in living memory.

The drought has already crimped production of hydroelectric power and food, adding to market pressure from the war in Ukraine. Many city authorities have asked residents to cut back their use of drinking water.

With global food flows already squeezed, the drought has Europe’s farmers spooked. [IAF: perhaps not the word I would use for it.] Hungary's agriculture ministry said Wednesday that as of the beginning of the month it had received 8,413 drought damage notifications covering 322,000 hectares in 2022, three times the area of any previous first half of the year.

#EU #wheat #drought

https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-temperature-heat-wave-drought/?amp;amp

More data here -
Unprecedented droughts cause pain for farmers across Europe

https://www.irishexaminer.com/farming/arid-40921142.html

Rail delays / problems are mounting (even though the strike was delayed) — it is a problem for this grain to not be moving. Contributing to animal feed shortages and the degradation of the entire food supply chain:
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Rail service delays in the past three months climbed a staggering 231% compared to a year ago, according to a new American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) analysis.
There were 204,000 unfilled grain car orders in the second quarter of 2022, compared to 62,000 last year, AFBF economist Daniel Munch said.

“Conditions have not im­proved for shippers since our first quarter analysis,” said Munch, noting that the number of unfilled orders climbed 49% since the first...

#SupplyChain #USA

https://www.iowafarmbureau.com/Article/Rail-delays-continue-becoming-lengthier

How are feed/hay prices where you are ?

I don’t have words for this.

Exclusive: Thousands of U.S. cattle buried, dumped at Kansas landfill

Top U.S. cattle feeding companies sent 1,000-pound carcasses to a Kansas landfill, where they were flattened by loader machines and mixed with trash, after a June heatwave killed thousands of cows, documents seen by Reuters show.

Other cattle were buried in unlined graves, a feeding company said.

Neither is a typical method for disposing of bodies. But so many cows died in the unusual heat and humidity that facilities that normally convert carcasses into pet food and fertilizer products were overwhelmed, prompting the state government and cattle feeders to take emergency measures.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-thousands-us-cattle-buried-dumped-kansas-landfill-after-deadly-2022-07-26/