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

Going to Sam’s today. Will report back...

Until a mini big mac slider cost you a months pay!

We don’t live on corn and soybeans anyway! So we just eat nuts and fruit while waiting for soil to improve!

We may see a dip in meat prices prior to it going sky-high.

Farmers will be offloading animals before the feed gets too expensive. When that happens, know well your grocery bill is about to explode.

Get a freezer and stock up all the meat you can fit in it, set it as cold as you can.

Many years ago, the government stored emergency grain for the peasants but they let that go and now they pay farmers to re-wild their land.

This article is from 2006, I couldn't find the latest stats on what we are paying farmers to grow crap grass and knapweed.

Nationwide, the federal government has paid at least $1.3 billion in subsidies for rice and other crops since 2000 to individuals who do no farming at all, according to an analysis of government records by The Washington Post. [link to www.washingtonpost.com]

The U.S. strategic grain reserve was initially created during the days of the Great Depression and they robbed us of even this tiny security.


(less than 50%)

The modern concept of a strategic grain reserve was first proposed in the 1930s by Wall Street legend Benjamin Graham. Graham’s idea hinged on the clever management of buffer stocks of grain to tame our daily bread’s tendencies toward boom and bust. When grain prices rose above a threshold, supplies could be increased by bringing reserves to the market — which, in turn, would dampen prices. And when the price of grain went into free-fall and farmers edged toward bankruptcy, the need to fill the depleted reserve would increase the demand for corn and wheat, which would prop up the price of grain.

Following Graham’s theory, President Franklin D. Roosevelt created a grain reserve that helped rally the price of wheat and saved American farms during the Depression. In the inflationary 1970s, the USDA revamped FDR’s program into the Farmer-Owned Grain Reserve, which encouraged farmers to store grain in government facilities by offering low-cost and even no-interest loans and reimbursement to cover the storage costs. But over the next quarter of a century the dogma of deregulated global markets came to dominate American politics, and the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act abolished our national system of holding grain in reserve.

As for all that wheat held in storage, it became part of the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust, a food bank and global charity under the authority of the secretary of Agriculture. The stores were gradually depleted until 2008, when the USDA decided to convert all of what was left into its dollar equivalent. And so the grain that once stabilized prices for farmers, bakers and American consumers ended up as a number on a spreadsheet in the Department of Agriculture.
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Now that the grain is GMO and putrid, I guess it doesn't really matter much if at all.

Did you know that in 2011 Texas wildfires burned 4 million acres? 6-10 million acres NOT planted ISN'T SHIT....just needed to put things into perspective....without perspective you can't know shit

Thank you!

Wise post, as long as people are considering grid down possibility, and balancing the freezer stock with a great deal of canned and dehydrated stock.

Setting the freezer to coldest will be wise - so things keep as long as possible without electricity.

Bear in mind that any food still containing ice crystals can safely be refrozen if the power comes back on. I did this after a five-day power outage from a big wind storm. The moment the power was restored I opened the freezer and went through everything. Saved at least 2/3 of the contents. I had put a quilt over the chest freezer to help the cold remain. Worked well. Now I have an upright - much harder to wrap.

You will enjoy shopping when nothing is in the stores, and eating the results of your shopping trip. You are not seeing the entire picture, unfortunately. Do as you think best.

I have said from the start that O Hussein replaced 3,000 top Military and Weather wars are a real possibility we've had since 1970. Notice all the red states are the victims. punishment for them and they wont be able to vote in 2020.
This is a war on the average American by evil people who hate us.But it is also predicted by many and Biblical".. there will be FAMINE, FLOODS and PLAGUES"

These storms knock out power and if your wallet cant buy food and a generator, better stick to DRY goods. A freezer would rot and cost you the price of the freezer AND its food. cut up those downed trees and store in a dry place. Get a little outdoor grill to cook and boil water on.Dont keep all your food and so on in one place, hide some here and there and have enough to share just in case.

Beans-+ Rice = a compleat protein. stock up bags in plastic containers because the rodents will start coming in hungry and they bite humans...then we will have diseases, the next round. And WATER PILLS that sanatize water. Buy seeds in bulk and look up sprouting; fresh is best. Look up Japanese system of small gardening: they can feed a family of 4 from a 3x6 raised box on the balcony.
Start having your family adjust to smaller leaner meals now so the change wont be so drastic. Americans eat way more than they should of junk food anyway.

Russian corn, grown by the white South African farmers the Russians rescued from certain death - when the USA would not. Could we ask for more? If I could get that, I'd refuse to buy any other kind.:)

White clover pudding recipe:

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Everything seemed normal today at Sam’s. Prices seemed ok too, but I’m expecting the worst come fall. Going back in a week to top off my stores...

No preps or food insurance, the goberment will save us?

The US strategic supply?
Fema camp out?
For how long if a nationwide event?
That is 350 million people times 3 meals a day or like 2000 calories per person per day or
700,000,000,000 calories a day.
4,900,000,000,000 a week,
19,600,000,000,000 a month,
235,200,000,000,000 a year.
My math may be off but you need about one million calories per person per year. For a prepping guide ez math 6 people six million calories.

Who and how will all this be Paid for it is apx $7k for rice and beans then transported? Distributed? amazon wont be delivering shit.

What if it is a world wide event?

The only State that did or does have a years food for it residents is or was Alaska. Under Governor Pailan. Forgive my spelling.

Second I would think Utah's Mormons self food storage teaching.

Anything our goverment says, I add or deduct one or two zeros.
The new USDA, USFDA, USCDC guidelines is a 3 week supply. (So a 30 to 300 week supply)!
The CDC is for pandemic quarantine! You could be quarantined at work or away from home.




Last Edited by sandman1 on 07/23/2019 01:01 PM

Thank you, Penny Peppers - appreciate your reports!

All true, all deserving of serious consideration. Have your own, have it under your own roof, be prepared to stay inside and defend as necessary. Thread: Practical Prepping Protocol even if Poor (Page 206)
We have to take care of ourselves. When the knock comes at the door, "We're from the gubmint and we are here to help" do not answer. Do not need the help. Take care of your own.

People seem to have forgotten this thread, yet the subject is still very concerning, or even more so, actually. Stores are coming up shorter and shorter - does everyone from this thread have all the food they can eat for years to come? I hope so.

Farmers Prevented from Planting Crops on More than 19 Million Acres

WASHINGTON, Aug. 12, 2019 – Agricultural producers reported they were not able to plant crops on more than 19.4 million acres in 2019, according to a new report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). This marks the most prevented plant acres reported since USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) began releasing the report in 2007 and 17.49 million acres more than reported at this time last year.

[link to www.fsa.usda.gov (secure)]

17 and a half MILLION acres more than last year. If we are already seeing supply shortages from the previous harvest in the form of canned goods shortages, what will this bring?

No exports and we'll be fine.

See how the USDA is walking these figures? First it was 6-10 million acres. Now they come up with almost double that.

I wouldn't be surprised if the overall grain yield is 30% to 50% lower this year.

Yes, I did go to my club warehouse supermarket and stock up on dry and canned goods.

Last Edited by Cheyenne on 08/13/2019 06:36 AM

With the doubling of unplanted acres, that total of 202 pounds of grain lost is now over 400 lbs. per person gone.

That’s a lot of food bro

Prices may go up a bit, but you Americans won't go hungry.

Instead, exports will drop. Any hunger will be outsourced to China and to the poorest food importing nations in Africa.

Many of these planted acres were sewn with no hope of a crop.

They way crop insurance works, you get paid on what was planted but did not get the expected harvest.

Many farmers then planted in waterlogged fields in hopes of some sort of an insurance payback in fall.

Now that the total unplanted acres are near 20 million we are looking at 400 lbs. of corn and soybeans per person in the USA that will not exist this year.

That's significant.

During the potato famine in Ireland, potatoes could still be had in England. The price was high.