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2022-03-18 Economy

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-18 02:21|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 Jenny Craig deliveries, don't fail me now.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-03-18 02:25|| 2022-03-18 02:25|| Front Page Top

#2 "A concatenation of events is dropping on us like an imploding building and there’s not much we can do to stop it."
Not events but deliberate policies. The sanctions are causing fertilizer and food shortages already and need to be stopped

Posted by Vernal Hupineter2623 2022-03-18 03:32|| 2022-03-18 03:32|| Front Page Top

#3 For you gardeners out there, here are some cheap alternatives to store bought fertilizers for your flowers and veggies. Way better than buying bags at Home Depot. Time to resurrect the Victory Garden concept.

https://www.thespruce.com/make-your-own-fertilizer-1388159

Posted by Warthog 2022-03-18 06:14|| 2022-03-18 06:14|| Front Page Top

#4 https://www.thespruce.com/make-your-own-fertilizer-1388159

Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-18 06:21|| 2022-03-18 06:21|| Front Page Top

#5 Fears of 'massive' supply chain problems and shortages of cheese and croissants [Britain]

Posted by Skidmark 2022-03-18 07:14|| 2022-03-18 07:14|| Front Page Top

#6 Good to see these ideas presented. Seeing a garden in sandy area I asked owner to show me. He pulled a six inch carrot out of the soil with ease. No digging. Why? Soil is so sandy he had to add sawdust to hold moisture. I did the same in my patch by adding coffee grounds and several bags of sand. Lose soil helps roots to grow and soil is spongy not compacted as was previously with clay soil. Cinders from coal ash does the same and blackens the soil and crops do marvelously well. Worms love these light soils as well.

Posted by Dale 2022-03-18 08:34|| 2022-03-18 08:34|| Front Page Top

#7
TO COME?

While documenting large price increases and hidden reduced package size adjustments. I have been also noting and taking Cell Ph. pic's of empty food shelves and freezers in too many Big Box stores.

I am also finding more and more items on shelves with closely approaching Best By or Use By dates. While strangely, I have the same item already home with further out dates?

But either way, we have seen various item shortages since the start of the Pandemic (TP, Masks, Hand cleaners and etc.) Now stores cannot get rid of their stock of these even with drastic price cuts.

HOWEVER FOOD
Was not a major problem for our neck of the woods until around early Aug./Sept. of 2021. Then we started noticing longer outages of more and more items with large price increases when found in stock.

BTW: From the "SEEING IS BELIEVING" world versus media hype.

The Pepsico owned & WOKEN Pearl Milling Company brand is in plentiful supply????

Either they have ramped up extra production, or a lot of consumers are avoiding it because of the way they played Political WOKE with the people that once purchased their products.

Posted by NN2N1 2022-03-18 08:41|| 2022-03-18 08:41|| Front Page Top

#8 Ration cards will come
"Do your duty by doing without. Send your sons (not ours) to die in our overseas war"

Posted by Clem Angerelet5801 2022-03-18 08:43|| 2022-03-18 08:43|| Front Page Top

#9 If you know anyone with livestock, especially horses, they owners are very happy to have you come help muck out stalls in return for manure. It's great fertilizer.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-03-18 09:11|| 2022-03-18 09:11|| Front Page Top

#10 am also finding more and more items on shelves with closely approaching Best By or Use By dates. While strangely, I have the same item already home with further out dates?

Hypothesis: In the past wholesale warehouses culled product that was close to expiration or Best By date, eating the loss, selling to dollar stores, or donating to nearby food banks. But now that supply is so tight, they’re selling that stock to retailers, giving the supply chain a little breathing room.

Posted by trailing wife 2022-03-18 10:50|| 2022-03-18 10:50|| Front Page Top

#11 There would have been continual food distribution problems this year regardless due to the same issues we had late last year.

This is new and above with this war. Fertilizer will either be very pricy or just not available, wheat from Russia and Ukraine that normally goes to the middle east will be in very short supply, energy disruption will cause transport costs to go up for everything and China will continue to hoover up all the food it can to rebuild its swine herd and feed its people as it has a food shortage from the floods last year.

Global famine for most 3rd world countries that import their food is guaranteed with much higher costs everywhere else.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-18 11:33|| 2022-03-18 11:33|| Front Page Top

#12 Food sovereignty must be a real consideration for the US. We have been a source of food for much fo the world and have been blessed with such abundance that it has ceased to even be a thought in public policy. That attitude must end. The Chinese are deep in farmland ownership as well as food processing and production (Smithfield for example) and that kind of acquisition must stop. Consider the OPEC model and the power it provides, as well as our moral obligation to our fellow citizens and our children.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-03-18 12:47|| 2022-03-18 12:47|| Front Page Top

#13 Well, obesity is sorta hard to hide. Treat overeaters like Liewatha's profiteering hoarder corporate swine and the food situation improves immediately.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-03-18 13:21|| 2022-03-18 13:21|| Front Page Top

#14 That attitude must end. The Chinese are deep in farmland ownership as well as food processing and production (Smithfield for example) and that kind of acquisition must stop.

I would agree. The food supply must be seen as a strategic resource. We need to keep it stable as the US withdraws from being the world police.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-03-18 15:12|| 2022-03-18 15:12|| Front Page Top

#15 Recycled liposuction waste. Yum!

Posted by Anomalous Sources 2022-03-18 16:58|| 2022-03-18 16:58|| Front Page Top

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