Food scarcity. Food vouchers. Food riots and flash mobs. All of that’s coming—and soon, says Texas-based food scientist and “Health Ranger” podcaster Mike Adams, who sees dire events unfolding in America in the short term. His advice: people need to get prepared now. “The thing to really watch for is the food inflation,” Adams said….
Doomsday ‘Preppers’ Warn of Hard Times Ahead As Preparedness Goes Mainstream
Amid Soaring Fertilizer, Fuel Prices, Fears of Rising Prices and Shortages
News Analysis Many American farmers have been struggling to get their fertilizer and herbicide supplies ready to sow their fields. Even if they can get them, they’re at exorbitant prices. Count in diesel at record highs and there’s a recipe for trouble. If Americans grumble about high grocery prices now, they can brace for even…
A Non-Expert’s Guide to Keeping Houseplants Alive
Big, leafy indoor plants have been all the rage and one of the most popular fads for the past few years. They’re obviously not a new thing, but it seems that every new home turns to these green beauties to decorate and fill each nook and cranny of space. But for me, indoor plants have…
Farmers Paying Triple for Fertilizer: We’re Not the Ones Raising Food Costs
March 23, 2022
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Beep, beep, beep. It’s the familiar sound of food scanned and placed into bags at your local grocery store. You just went in for a few things and meant to keep it under $100. But you walk away with a new case of sticker shock and fewer bags than $100 used to buy. Inflation has…
China Braces for Food Crisis
News Analysis Last November, a wave of panic buying and hoarding was spurred by a message from China’s Ministry of Commerce, instructing local governments to stabilize food supply and prices. Now, as the war in Ukraine is threatening wheat and fertilizer exports, China braces for a food crisis, while Americans can expect higher prices at…
Soaring Fertiliser Costs Add to Pressure on UK Food Prices
British Farmers are dealing with a perfect storm of historic high prices of fuel and fertiliser leading to fears of increased food prices and potential shortages. Potato farmer and independent agronomist from Lincolnshire, Mike Neaverson told The Epoch Times by email that he was covered for fertiliser this season “but many are not.” In the…
Ukraine War Triggering Global Food Crisis, Possible Rise in ‘Chronically Hungry People’
March 14, 2022
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Russia’s war against Ukraine and the resulting sanctions are pushing the world into a food crisis, according to fertilizer and coal billionaire Andrei Melnichenko. The war “has already led to soaring prices in fertilizers which are no longer affordable to farmers,” Melnichenko, the founder of EuroChem, one of Russia’s biggest fertilizer producers, said to Reuters….
The World Is Running Out of Fertilizer: China Controls the Supply
Commentary How does a society collapse? According to Joseph Tainter, a renowned anthropologist, societies collapse when they display a profound loss of sociopolitical complexity. But, I argue, there is another reason why societies collapse; it involves self-reliance, or lack thereof. The more a country relies on another country for support, the greater the chance of…
South American Nations Push to Exclude Fertilizer From Russia Sanctions
March 11, 2022
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SAO PAULO—Six South American nations are proposing the exclusion of fertilizer from sanctions on Russia, a major world producer whose invasion of Ukraine has disrupted supplies, Brazil’s Agriculture Minister Tereza Cristina Dias said on Thursday. She said Brazil has secured the support of Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay for a proposal excluding fertilizer products…
Putin Warns Any Attempts to Prevent Exports of Fertilizers, Oil, Gas Will Have ‘Serious Consequences’
March 11, 2022
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has warned that any attempts to prevent exports of fertilizers, oil, gas, and metals will have “serious consequences on this segment of the world market and for food in general.” Putin made the comments at a meeting with government members on March 10, according to the Russian state-run news agency TASS. The president…
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