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US corn is being BAKED right now, much of it is tasseling, meaning yield will be impacted quite severely.

In other words, Andrey should already be worried about corn.

And about the culling of cattle herds happening now in Texas drought.

Grow your garden folks. Things are getting rough, and accelerating quickly.

#us #corn
Europe is in free fall. In the last 12 hours:

- Russia hints NordStream 2 is NOT coming back online.
- German banks adjust models to say "We might survive if houses heat using firewood and we STOP all industry and economic activity (really strong plan guys!)
- Hungary announces ban on export of firewood:
https://musicnewsfirst.com/hungary-bans-the-export-of-energy-and-firewood-from-the-country/

#Eu #EnergyCrisis
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Obligatory flashback to Putin mocking Europe — "No gas, no coal ... what are you going to do, burn firewood? You import firewood too!"

The words seem prescient as Hungary just banned exports of firewood, and the EU is panicking.

#EnergyCrisis
OPEN THREAD: Many reports of empty shelves, rationing at Costco and others.

Also hearing lots of reports of poor germination/yields from seeds from corporate sources (home depot, etc)..

What are you seeing in your neck of the woods?

#OpenThread
It is a global hostile takeover of food production and all economic activity — describing it as anything less is superficial — and people are getting it.

https://www.theepochtimes.com/climate-mandates-imposed-on-dutch-farmers-will-ruin-their-livelihood-war-correspondent_4593308.html
Italy's PM Draghi resigns. So:

- Italy's Draghi is out
- UK's Boris Johnson is out
- Abe is eliminated in Japan
- Estonia's PM has resigned
- Irish government - no confidence vote
- Dutch protests continue to gain steam — German farmers are joining

Amazing how quickly things are moving. Expect more as the West continues to be destroyed from within ... (as Saudi Arabia, Turkey, Egypt move towards BRICS!)

https://www.euronews.com/2022/07/14/italys-prime-minister-mario-draghi-to-resign-over-coalition-crisis
Macron announces "Turn off your lights" as it becomes clear Russia will not continue providing gas:

"French President Emmanuel Macron warned his country’s people Thursday to prepare for a total cutoff of Russian natural gas by supporting alternatives, having public lights switched off at night and engaging in a period of nationwide energy “sobriety.”

The Russian invasion of Ukraine and ensuing sanctions have aggravated other factors driving up prices for energy and others goods. With no end in sight for the Ukraine war, Macron said, the French should brace themselves for costs to remain high.

“This war will continue,” he said in a televised interview marking France’s national holiday, Bastille Day. “The summer, early autumn will be very hard.”"

#France #EU #EnergyCrisis

https://nypost.com/2022/07/14/macron-turn-out-the-lights-brace-for-russian-gas-cutoff/
China unveils limits on phosphate (fertilizer) exports:

“The quotas, set well below year-ago export levels, would expand China’s intervention in the market to keep a lid on domestic prices and protect food security while global fertiliser prices are hovering near record highs.”

#fertilizer #China

https://www.reuters.com/article/china-fertilizers-quotas-idUKL4N2YH2CP
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...
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
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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! <<

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