Preparing for Uncertainty and Self Reliance

[SuburbanFarmer]

Things are about to get weird.

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06- ... rn-farmers

Stock up whatever food you can. Now is the time.

There's a lot of stories along this line in 2019. Maybe hype, maybe not.

Forage crops will be low this year.
https://www.drovers.com/article/were-go ... orage-year

37,000 cattle winter killed in Montana last winter
https://fox28spokane.com/over-37000-cat ... n-montana/

There are no viable corn/soybean fields in my area (northern Ohio). I can assure you that food prices will be much higher this winter.

[brewster]

There's a lot of stories along this line in 2019. Maybe hype, maybe not.

Ag futures are as susceptible to manipulation as any other financial, I'd be very skeptical. The whole point of civilization is to save enough food for bad years, we're pretty good at it. Most of the time, we in this country create far too much food. I heard an interview with a farmer who complained that the real problem wasn't the anticipated bad harvest, but the prospect that prices would remain very low anyway.

[Speaker to Animals]

It's been a deliberate national policy to overproduce food and use that food surplus to both weaken foreign nations and make them dependent upon our food exports.

We talk a lot about dependency on imports (especially oil), but consider food is a lot more important and we are essentially the Saudi Arabia of food production for as long as the oil is cheap.

[Speaker to Animals]

[Fife]

What's the problem, yankees? Are you all having some sort of a corn issue?

Corn's off the hook down here this time around.





I'm seeing two or three times the corn v. beans compared to last year.

Of course, our beans are kicking ass as well.





Sooner or later you sad sack fuckers will learn to think locally and act locally. :goteam: :drunk:

[Speaker to Animals]

Fake news. It's all on fire. The KKK is burning the fields. Stay clear for your own good. I heard Canada has food.

[brewster]

What's the problem, yankees? Are you all having some sort of a corn issue?

Corn's off the hook down here this time around.

And there's the benefit of being a large country. No doubt there's been years when TX has had it's crop fail and the midwest was just fine. Looks like we won't starve, since TX is not a subsistence economy and it's unlikely that it can eat all it grows. But maybe they'll try to sell it all to China and we'll have to send in the Union Army again to confiscate their crops. I'm sure there's some modern WT Sherman to be found in the ranks.

[Speaker to Animals]

Slight problemo: the army is mostly southrons.

[brewster]

Slight problemo: the army is mostly southrons.

According to Heritage.org it's 40%, not a "mostly" by any means.
https://www.heritage.org/defense/report ... d-officers

[Speaker to Animals]

But the westerners are on our side too, and Yanks -- especially the urban kind -- are not a factor.