Food prices set to increase as shortages of meat and corn begin

It's early spring and farmers are preparing to plant their crop seeds. The difference between this year and previous years is that the cost of fertiliser has almost trippled. Due to the wonderful (sarcasm) invention that is globalism people can probably guess where much of the fertiliser we use comes from. That's right, Russia, and Russia has recently stopped exports of fertiliser. A shortage of fertiliser is just one item in a basket of reasons behind the rising food prices.

While the global elites continue to cause as much trouble as possible, insisting nothing is their fault and promising everyone abundance, freedom and security we are now facing food shortages, restrictions and world war 3. According to Fox news, more than two-thirds of the worlds fertiliser comes from abroad. Those exports have now stopped. Add that to the increase in fuel costs and farmers are really struggling to make ends meat.

Right at the start of the supply chain it is costing farmers more to fertilise their fields ready for planting seeds. Once harvested they then have to transport their crops to processing and packaging facilities. From there they need to be transported to distribution centres before finally being transported to your local stores. The rise in fuel prices has made all of that more expensive. Not to mention the packaging its self which is often made of plastic or other materials that require oil.

Corn requires more fertiliser than many other crops and the shortages and price rises has forced many farmers to either stop growing corn altogether and switch to soy beans or increase their prices dramatically. This has another more serious knock on effect. Corn is used primarily as animal feed and so the shortages and price rises of corn are causing animal farmers to produce less meat.

The meat shortages that follow mean the cost of meat in the shops will go up and become harder to find.

Some good can come from all of this — The forward thinking and optimistic people realise that people may no longer be able to afford Mcdonalds, ice cream and other junk food and may have to turn to healthier selections of fruits and vegetables. What did people have to do following World War 2? They grew victory gardens. We can plant a new generation of home grown food and collect eggs from our home reared chickens.