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.

Comms will go down at some point. I am grateful and honored to have shared this space with you.

Godspeed and God bless.

Christian / @iceagefarmer

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

Among the industrial production shutting down across Europe: everything needed to grow food.

See this map for a sense of how widespread - and drastic - the shutdowns of fertilizer production.

What has been put in motion cannot now he stopped - Famine ahead. Prepare.

#eu #fertilizer

It is a global situation—not just Europe:
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UN Food Official Warns Fertilizer Affordability Crisis Could Slash Global Grain Production By 40%

Global fertilizer shortages threaten to starve a planet as prices are too high for some farmers ahead of the next planting season. 

That's the view of Maximo Torero, chief economist from the Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations (UN), who told Bloomberg TV that elevated fertilizer prices could decrease global grain production by upwards of 40% in the next planting season. 

#fertilizer #FoodShortages

https://www.zerohedge.com/commodities/un-food-official-warns-fertilizer-affordability-crisis-could-slash-global-grain

World’s largest rice exporter restricts shipments

India has banned sending broken rice abroad and imposed a 20% duty on other varieties.

The South Asian nation cited food security concerns in making the move, which was announced on Thursday, as below-average monsoon rainfall had curtailed planting. India exports rice to more than 150 countries.

IceAgeFarmer note: this is the “food nationalism” that was described by Podesta’s Food Chain Reaction Game leading to massive geopolitical instability and hunger

#india #rice

https://www.rt.com/business/562484-india-restricts-rice-exports/

As India restricts exports, a view of California’s rice fields:

https://www.zerohedge.com/weather/satellite-image-reveals-agriculture-wasteland-across-californias-rice-capital

Ohio: another 3 million chickens euthanized due to claimed #BirdFlu - one of the largest egg laying operations in US

An outbreak of bird flu that has led to the deaths of 43 million chickens and turkeys this year across the U.S. has been found at a giant egg-laying operation in Ohio, state and federal agriculture officials said Wednesday.

The case confirmed over the weekend in Ohio’s Defiance County has affected roughly 3 million chickens, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The egg-laying farm has started euthanizing all of its flock, said Dennis Summers, the state’s veterinarian.

https://www.wtrf.com/ohio/ohio-egg-farm-forced-to-euthanize-3-million-chickens/amp/

Another mass kill of livestock: 57,000 cows perish in India - milk shortages and "hundreds of carcasses of dead cows have been found lying in the open, causing a nauseating stench, with crows and vultures feeding on them."

Media asking "Why" — some farmers suggesting the cows were recently vaxxed against Lumpy Skin Disease (LSD).

"Pictures taken with the help of drone cameras reveal a large number of carcasses spread over several square kilometre area. In some places, it is even difficult to keep a count of those dead."

#WarOnDairy #WarOnMeat #India #PostAnimalEconomy

https://www.indiatvnews.com/news/india/opinion-who-is-responsible-for-the-death-of-thousands-of-cows-in-rajasthan-aaj-ki-baat-rajat-sharma-blogpost-2022-09-10-807048

"I suspect that 75-80 % of UK salad growers will not plant next year . . . because it doesn’t make any economic sense. It’s fair to say the salad sector has been abandoned"

#uk #WarOnFarms

https://www.ft.com/content/2853f30e-211d-40eb-80e1-618e27358a2c

It seems perfectly normal to me that FedEx ground, UPS, and railroad workers are all striking at the same time.

Absolutely nothing to see here.

#us #SupplyChain

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/us-railroads-enact-contingency-plans-preparing-labor-strike-union-talks-fail

https://www.truckinginfo.com/10180376/fedex-ground-contractor-dispute-what-now

https://scnow.com/news/national/one-of-the-biggest-strikes-in-us-history-is-brewing-at-ups-heres-what-it/article_4172e21b-8274-51ef-a0c3-79bceafa6c4b.html

Russia promises to provide FREE fertilizer and increased grain exports to “poor countries” — this has been under- [un-] reported in western media:
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Russia is set to ramp up grain exports, seeking to supply some 30 million tons this year, President Vladimir Putin has announced. The supplies will prioritize less well off and food-insecure nations.

“We believe it to be right to ramp up deliveries to the poorest countries,” Putin said during a meeting of the Security Council on Friday.

“In total, by the end of this year, we will supply some 30 million tons of grain and are ready to increase this volume to 50 million tons or more, because, thank God, we have a good harvest this year,” he added.

Moscow is also ready to supply fertilizers to the poorest nations free of charge, the Russian president said. “Our producers — we’re talking about potash fertilizers – are ready to deliver them free of charge to developing nations that urgently need them,” Putin said, instructing the Russian Foreign Ministry to work on the plan.

#russia #fertilizer

https://www.rt.com/russia/562508-putin-grain-poor-nations/

Supermarket Asda has introduced a budget line of products, only to limit purchases thereof to three per customer.

This is actually similar to to the Iranian scheme of subsidizing only a few items a week — everyone is free to purchase as much EXPENSIVE food as you want (can), but for those of us swept up in the intentional economic devastation, well, you only get three packs of affordable vegan hot dogs, slave.

Remember: Rockefellers called for Food as UBI, declaring that “food is a human right.”

More changes coming to #retail.

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/shopping/shoppers-divided-asda-rations-new-24974501

France bracing for ‘catastrophic’ food shortages and price hikes following drought, farmers and unions warn

After four severe heatwaves this year record high temperatures have wreaked havoc on crops and could have a devastating impact on the availability of food across the rest of Europe.

France is the leading European exporter of potatoes with more than two million tonnes of the crop being exported each year.

Food producers say nearly 1.5 million tonnes of potato crops could be lost due to the heatwave — a drop of 20 per cent.

Geoffroy d’Evry, a farmer in the Oise region and president of potato-growers’ union UNPT, said: “We have never experienced a situation like this.

“We were preparing to spend the winter without heating or electricity, and now we discover that there may not even be potatoes for dinner?” [Welcome to the Great Reset — this is why we prepared.]

The Legumes de France federation has also estimated losses of between 25 and 35 per cent of the production and yield of vegetables.

#France #EU #FoodShortage

https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/w/france-bracing-catastrophic-food-shortages-following-drought-farmers-and-unions-warn

Europe’s Natural Gas Shortage Could Trigger A Food Crisis

Governments are using every tool in their kits to curb the rising inflation rates, there’s far less they can do about the coming food shortage.

"Countries can't mandate fertilizer production because they are so worried about having enough natural gas to heat people's homes," John Harpole, a natural gas broker for the fertilizer sector told Newsweek. "They are having to choose between future food production and heat and they are going to choose heat."

The problem with an energy crisis is that it’s actually an everything crisis. In a world where virtually every industry relies on energy in some form, runaway inflation is an inevitability.

[ ... I did mention this exactly a year ago ... ]

#EU #FoodShortage #EnergyCrisis

https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Europes-Natural-Gas-Shortage-Could-Trigger-A-Food-Crisis.html

ALERT - the USDA wants you to REGISTER YOUR GARDEN. Their "people's garden" program is NOT your grandma's victory garden brochure. It is—in their own words—creating a registry and map of small-scale food production.

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES REGISTER YOUR GARDEN. No matter what benefits or enticements are offered.
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"The USDA expanding its People’s Garden Initiative to include eligible gardens nationwide!

"School gardens, community gardens, urban farms, and small-scale agriculture projects in rural, suburban and urban areas can be recognized as a “People’s Garden” if they register on the USDA website and meet criteria including benefiting the community, working collaboratively, incorporating conservation practices and educating the public. Affiliate People’s Garden locations will be indicated on a map on the USDA website, featured in USDA communications, and provided with a People’s Garden sign.

source

IceAgeFarmer

Europe has fallen to the climate cult! This is clearly more symbolic than energy savings:

#France

https://www.theepochtimes.com/energy-rationing-hits-eiffel-tower-as-paris-landmark-goes-dark-to-save-power_4735705.html

France to reap worst corn harvest in decades

French farmers are harvesting their smallest corn crop in more than three decades, following the worst drought in at least 500 years that has hit the continent.

The smaller crops in France, which is one of Europe’s agricultural heavyweights, could drive soaring food prices even higher. Fields in Germany and Romania, other key EU producers, have also suffered from drought.

(Cue the media blaming climate change and calls for zero carbon)

#eu #france #corn #wheat

https://www.rt.com/business/562729-france-bad-corn-harvest/