Odd. Me and my mom went shopping. No shortage.

[Hawkeye10]

Most empty shelves ever, produce was the worst ever, and massive price increases are hitting....one item was 50% increase.

This is the report I received.

[Doc Dutch]

When one is just swiping that EBT card what do they care?

Yes. 7% less food. LOL

A few on JPP are on the other end; DFAS just gave us our 2022 5.9% COLA bump. About $60 per $1000. It adds up.

[Althea]

Produce is nicely priced at Walmart here but meat is a bit overpriced.

I don't talk anyone into or out of shopping anywhere. I get better pricing at any grocery store when I shop specials. Some regions are very limited, and people are forced to use Walmart for everything. I guess I'm lucky that I'm not one.

[AProudLefty]

I went to Walmart yesterday. Plenty of food and supplies, but selections were skewed. No red bell peppers, just yellow and some softening orange ones. No wheat crackers, but plenty of whole grain and regular. There were gaps of empty shelves in almost every section.

Perfect reason to grow them yourself. My grandfather grew excellent tomatoes in his backyard. Ripe.

Buy as many packets of seeds as you can in case the SHTF.

[AProudLefty]

I went to Walmart yesterday. Plenty of food and supplies, but selections were skewed. No red bell peppers, just yellow and some softening orange ones. No wheat crackers, but plenty of whole grain and regular. There were gaps of empty shelves in almost every section.

[NiftyNiblick]

I don't think that we have paralyzing shortages, but we definitely have specific items having supply chain issues.
That's obvious to me. Some things have been off the shelves for months and other things like beef are priced super high due to lack of supply..

[Hawkeye10]

I don't think that we have paralyzing shortages, but we definitely have specific items having supply chain issues.
That's obvious to me. Some things have been off the shelves for months and other things like beef are priced super high due to lack of supply..

Its getting worse....and there is no reason to think this will change anytime soon.

FAILING

[Doc Dutch]

Perfect reason to grow them yourself. My grandfather grew excellent tomatoes in his backyard. Ripe.

Buy as many packets of seeds as you can in case the SHTF.

That's what I'm planning this year. Some inverted tomatoes and some traditional. Might toss in some hot peppers like Anaheim's.

[christiefan915]

Our store is running 9 Lives on special right now for a great price, but I don't think our cats eat it.

My cats don't eat 9 Lives either. They like Friskies or Fancy Feast.

[Hawkeye10]

Opinion: Why high fertilizer prices on the farm could hit consumers on their forks

It’s no secret farmers are faced with a fertilizer crisis. Prices for phosphorus-based and potassium-based (potash) fertilizers have more than doubled in Kansas while Nitrogen-based fertilizers have more than quadrupled. Fertilizer is vital to feeding not only the country, but the world. It contains essential nutrients for plant life, and without it, American agricultural yields will quickly suffer as well as food prices in local grocery stores.

There are three main types of fertilizer, nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium. Depending on the crop and soil, a farmer may need one or all three types. Nitrogen fertilizers like Anhydrous Ammonia are made by mixing nitrogen in the air with the hydrogen from natural gas at high temperatures. Sixty percent of the natural gas is used as the ingredient while 40% is used as the energy source. Phosphorus and potash fertilizers are made from mostly imported mined rock, which then go through a chemical process to create several different compounds.

The US only makes up for 10% of global fertilizer use, despite producing 35% of its corn and soybeans. Even with our efficiency we are a major importer of fertilizer therefore our market price is largely driven by global supply and demand. This means both international and domestic issues have a significant impact on our fertilizer prices – all suffer to some extent from supply disruption policies like paying more for people to stay at home than work. This is also complicated by weather disruptions that put a dent in U.S. production of nitrogen.

Sixty percent of total U.S. ammonia production capacity is in Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Texas because of their large reserves of natural gas. Natural gas prices are up more than 150% in North America, and are up around 500% in Europe. Since natural gas makes up 70 percent of production costs for anhydrous ammonia, so follows the price of fertilizer. Many European fertilizer producers have shut down, curtailed operations, or dramatically increased their price. At this rate, Europe will starve themselves before they die from pollution.

At the same time, just like they did with medical supplies during the worst days of the COVID pandemic, China has significantly curtailed its fertilizer exports – a common trick they use to artificially create shortages and raise prices. This means fertilizer producers outside of Europe and China are seeing significantly higher demand, pushing prices upward. The U.S. has countervailing duties on phosphate from Russia and Morocco and several other major global producers are also limiting exports which exacerbate the supply shortage globally.

https://www.agri-pulse.com/articles/...on-their-forks

Crop yields might be down a lot this year, and who can say when this problem will get fixed, we really do suck at fixing problems now.

[Life is Golden]

For refusing to be vaccinated.

She got all the brains in the family, I see.

[Hawkeye10]

Cheap food is over in America, we know this now.

[christiefan915]

It always upsets me when I see a mother with screeching kids on a cart full of shit, playing games on tablets, while the mother bitches about something on phone then she pays for shit with EBT, then gets in a fancy car and drives away.

Those people are a drain on our society.

You sound like ronnie raygun.

[Hawkeye10]

Notice what the Chinese do about the fertilizer shortage.

The Chinese come first, their friends come next, and the rest of us get whatever is leftover.

[AProudLefty]

You sound like ronnie raygun.

Yo?