re: Once the Bread Basket of the World, The United States Now Needs International Food Relief:

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keep telling you that Zimbabwe is our very near future.

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Absolutely beautiful country. I’ve vowed I’m going back before I leave this Earth assuming it doesn’t implode before then

I brought back a $5,000 zim note. It was better off to be used as toilet paper and worth less than a penny at that time

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Senators ask to let farmers grow crops on fallow land. Dept of Agriculture says no due to climate concerns.

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There is going to be 90 million acres of corn and 90 million of beans planted this year - you want more available then tell the govt to stop using for food

60 million of wheat

More cotton than normal and a little less rice

Same amount of peanuts and sugar

The crops that are affected by California’s drought can’t be just grown anywhere

There is not enough seed and fertilizer on the market to plant that idle land

Stop being a dumbass sheep and believing everything you read on the internet

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As part of the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA), negotiated by President Donald Trump to replace the North America Free Trade Agreement in July 2020, Canada agreed to impose an additional surcharge of $3/kg if the total volume of its global formula exports—not just exports to the U.S.—broke a certain threshold. That threshold is currently set at 40,480 metric tons for the current “dairy year” of August 1 2021 to July 31 2022.

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So import prices would be higher...okay.

This has ZERO to do with shelves being empty. Higher prices - ok, Empty shelves- no.

Tell us more about Illegals and Ukraine having lunch the formula that they need thanks to you boy.

I can’t imagine defending Biden’s ineptitude concerning this. Your deflection is pathetic.

If the constitutional republic survives this installed regime it’s highly unlikely you will ever see another administration this incompetent and corrupt. It will only be by God’s mercy and grace if the US indeed perseveres.

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It might not be possible this season, but It’s still dangerous how they won’t consider it due to climate change.

We used to maintain a stockpile seed. Shows how vulnerable we are.

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Most of that idle land is bog holes or gets river backwater every spring and won't grow good crops anyways

How are we vulnerable when we are still producing hundreds of millions of acres of crops with $5 diesel and $1000/ton fertilizer?

Someday when people are maybe more objective they’ll appreciate the fact that the Reps were lucky to lose this election and not get destroyed by the structural issues slamming the world economy. Biden will be a 1 termer due to it and same case for anyone unlucky enough to be prez coming out of the pandemic.

Two things our Congress could do to ease some of the supply chain issues and ease energy costs in the NE are repeal the Jones act and the dredging act of 1906. But we have a do nothing Congress that’s more interested in trying to own each other on social media and fight over a bunch of niche social issues rather than doing anything to substantively benefit their constituents.

Biden’s main fault is the stuff he tries to do to fix problems beyond his control, are comically dumb and ineffective (ie SPR release).

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repeal the Jones act

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Thats an instant death blow to American shipbuilding, with colossal national security implications.

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Cwill

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The board’s hemorrhoid is always popping up at inopportune times and thinks he is actually scoring points by parroting MSM narratives.

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Yes, but I don’t blame him for things that aren’t his doing.

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Look here you little anal polyp, protectionist trade policies and plant shutdowns certainly have contributed to the crisis but the main contributor to the formula shortage is the redistributive policies of the Welfare State and COVID-1984 lockdown related logistical issues which Joe Biden as a matter of course most certainly supported.

WIC's promotion of infant formula in the United States: Currently, WIC acts in a way that benefits commercial enterprises at the expense of infants. The government should not risk infants' health in order to support commercial enterprises.


The United States' Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) distributes about half the infant formula used in the United States at no cost to the families. This is a matter of concern because it is known that feeding with infant formula results in worse health outcomes for infants than breastfeeding.

Discussion

The evidence that is available indicates that the WIC program has the effect of promoting the use of infant formula, thus placing infants at higher risk. Moreover, the program violates the widely accepted principles that have been set out in the International Code of Marketing of Breast-milk Substitutes and in the human right to adequate food.

Summary

There is no good reason for an agency of government to distribute large quantities of free infant formula. It is recommended that the large-scale distribution of free infant formula by the WIC program should be phased out.

Big Drop in Wheat Production

It’s like a controlled demolition. The list of factors impacting overall food supply this year is staggering.

Ukraine = fertilizer crisis
Diesel costs skyrocketing
Transportation costs rising sharply
Avian Flu = tons of culled birds and USDA mandates delayed recovery
Food production facilities burning
Formula crisis