Ready for the Real Hunger Games? 19 Million Acres Will Not Be Planted This Year

Lots of petulance in this country as well, mainly on the left. You were not wrong!

oh jeebus...its a plot to wipe out preppers.

as long as there are Potatoes you can live..

I knew a guy that tumor in his head,all he could eat over 30 years was blended potatoes as he could not swallow any other food ...

And its all he ate was drinking Potatoes...no kidding!

Fuck corn. Call me when they stop planting cows.

pessimism for optimism.

Funny everyone has a garden this year .. so you are wrong

So very short-sighted, as well as short on vocabulary.

What do you think cows eat, genius? And chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, goats, turkeys and so on.

I was trying to be funny. Relax.

And all of the above do just fine on grass and hay. Corn is a very resource hungry plant and very inefficient to digest as well as making the worst fuel. Sugar cane is easier to grow, doesn't deplete the soil nearly as fast and yields much higher content when processed for fuel.

See Brazil.

Why? Nothing else? What do you see in rice?

Corn is bad for you, 90% of it is genetically modified crap.
Same with soy and wheat.

You are so right about corn being in everything. People just won't get it! All the naysayers and those making stupid comments about having no GMOs being good - yes, if we could do that. We have to get that monster out of the government that potus appointed - the head of monsanto running his section of the government. Dear God what a murderous plan!

But we don't have a lot of foods right now generally available that are not GMO - that's so bad, yet we have to eat what is available, unless we can grow everything we eat, or trade with what our neighbors grow - which is the ideal. Time to work on that, right?

The laughter and ignorant statements are very bothersome, OP, and I am so happy you made this thread. There have been several already, and there will be more, and each one is found by at least a few people who have not seen the others, to whom this is all new information. I am thankful for each and every thread, because that means a few more people who will be prepared, who won't be shocked and desperately searching for something to feed their children, something to keep them alive.

I want to add that volcanoes keep sending more and more ash and mess into the sky, which then circulates all around the world. The more of that, the less sun and heat we will have. We have to factor this into our gardening - have a plan for protection of our growing parameters. Lights? That would help - could grow indoors. Grid down? So much for lights. All needs to be considered, beginning now. Lots of brilliant minds here - so working together we can solve these issues before they become functional problems.

Well done, OP - as I said earlier - great job on this thread!

Yup, corn is in nearly everything, contrary to the foolish persons who have said in this thread that they don't eat corn and don't care about corn. Time to learn a thing!

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If the price hasn't doubled by then, I'll be surprised!

Rice has doubled since last year.


I'm glad for every person here who is aware!

100 miles squared is only 10,000 miles. Now you begin to see the scope of the problem, right?

You are doing exactly the right thing - starting where you are with what you have, and with a plan for the future - trading. Smart, smart person! Long may your growing prosper!

You, no doubt, having volunteered to be the first "useless eater" to go, as the world does not require psychotics.

And nowhere in that commercial do they ever say, “chicken” nuggets

If you think you will plant a garden or go to the woods, and have not lived that way good luck, if you have kids you need a cushion some food put up your garden will help but it is hard unless you are doing it now bugs and pests ect. Coyotes got 4 of my young 2 month old rabbits this week, It's OK i had 40+ of them. they are dog food now.

For anyone that wants to do something about long term food storage, because i have wasted a lot of store bought.
25 year shelve life, Best value for basic food is by far
Prividentliving.org food storage, they have many locations mostly in the US. cheapest if u pick it up. I am not a member but they sell to everyone. You can buy a #10 can or case of 6, Basics rice beans oats oat meal wheat pasta milk ect.
Entrees freeze dried Augaston Farms walmart or sams on line shop for deals half price.
Water filter Alexapure gravity retail $230 got mine for $99
Feed store cheep whole oats cut oats rolled oats corn wheat like .25 cents a pound.
I rotate it as chicken rabbit food treats
I may have gone a little overboard with over 5 million calories of food put up. But i can sleep knowing it is done, I will be 80 + when it reaches it end of its shelve life.
Gott go. Be safe, no fear.

You are a representative of brilliance in foresight and planning. Your intentions are excellent and will no doubt meet all your needs perfectly and pleasantly!

It ain't really chicken then.

Good! No food for anyone, because it's GMO and has RoundUp in it. We don't want any of that, and thus we prefer to starve today and watch our children sob with hunger as they waste away. Right?

You have never been hungry, have you? So you don't have te least idea of which you speak.

If you do not eat what is available, what will you eat? You said nothing about raising a garden, a cow, chickens, nothing to provide yourself with non-GMO foods. What will you eat? Nothing at all - just go hungry, get smaller, die.

Great thinking, Free Indeed! Great thinking!

Everyone? Every single person and family in this country has a garden this year? That would certainly be ideal, but it's not happening. Very few people, compared to the entire population, have gardens this or any other year.

Look in the cities- where are the gardens in the apartment complexes? In the tenements? Between the row houses? Even in lovely or awful residential neighborhoods, very few grow a garden. The nicer homes have gardeners and beautiful flowers, shrubs, ornamental trees. Nothing to eat, though.

Will you be able to feed your family all fall, winter and spring on the amount you are growing? Are you sure? Do you know how to preserve it? What will you do for the meat that didn't grow in your garden? And the eggs from chickens that didn't grow in the garden? And on and on.

Having any part of a garden is a start, and I congratulate you for that. Do not believe, however, that you will have all the food you need for your family for a year from that garden. Start counting plants and rows and jars and freezer space and if you have a pressure canner, because vegetables other than tomatoes MUST be pressure canned.

It's not as easy as saying "everybody has a garden this year". If that were true, we would be really far better shape. Maybe someday it will be true. We can pray for that, anyway.

Where is the grass growing? And the hay? If nothing can be planted - don't you think that includes hay?

Yes, corn is a greedy plant, but that is what we use - do you suggest we switch to sugar cane to feed livestock?

Yet those are a large part of all the foods we eat. If you would go to your kitchen cupboards and refrigerator and freezer and toss out every item that has the least content of corn, soy, or wheat, you would not find much left to eat.

Hay does not need to be replanted every year. Some cows do just fine on natural field grasses that don't need to be planted at all. Having milk animals is a good thing in bad-crop years. Yet our leaders want to move us towards getting rid of animals and eating only their gmo crap. soft famine would be a kindness at this point if it woke us up to the need to get away from dependence on corporate farming. Monsanto has destroyed crop diversity which actually leaves us extremely vulnerable to famine via crop disease. Now that most of the wheat is of a single variety, it could all be wiped out easily by disease. Think about it, if the Irish had practiced crop diversity in the types of potatoes that were planted, their famine would not have affected the whole country.

And there are established programs for feeding hay to cows, you just can't do high density feedlot operations from them. For that you need calorie dense foods like corn. And, like it or not, that's where most of our meat comes from. Think the price of beef is high? Go look at the corner of the beef section with "organically grown, grass-fed" cuts. You will boggle at the price.

You're correct, agriculture needs to be ready to do business in a different manner but that means the rest of us must be ready too.

Whoa!!! I don't have commercial tv so I don't see these things. That's a terrific omission you noted!

Makes me go "ew". Wonder what they are made of, other than fat. I mean, fat from what? AI YI YI That's disgusting!

maybe better off except Cali when it cant get ethanol

You are right, real food is more expensive than we realize. The low price of food is a measure of its value. Corn fed meat isn't healthy. The fat from grass fed cows is a health food and the fat from corn fed cows is a poison. They are chemically different.

The only way we will ever again be able to afford healthy meat, is to start leaving the cities and return to a more agrarian economy.