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2022-01-24 Economy

High fertilizer prices could mean smaller crops

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Posted by Skidmark 2022-01-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [2 views ] Top

#1 Smaller yields. Trouble is factory farms dump to much of that shit in the first place.

Posted by Woodrow 2022-01-24 04:07|| 2022-01-24 04:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Everything is working against the farmer. Even corporate farms. John Deer with fully automated equipment priced thru the roof. Repair costs impossible to deal with. Farmers in my area purchasing old equipment that still runs like Allis Chalmers still having many accessories. Working a job to keep the farm going now a necessity. Fuel costs sky high as well. So one major event, medical or operations will do them in now.

Posted by Dale 2022-01-24 04:12|| 2022-01-24 04:12|| Front Page Top

#3 My hay provider will be unable to fertilize his hay field this year. He told me every other farmer he talked to said the same thing. Fertilizer went from 450 bucks a ton last year to 1000 this year. We can thank Joe Biden, the Democrats, and other world governments for the decrease in natural gas output which is the major source for fertilizer. Food production is also greatly affected and will decline. It seems they want to reduce population by starving everyone.

Posted by Deacon Blues 2022-01-24 08:06|| 2022-01-24 08:06|| Front Page Top

#4 The Bolsheviks don't grasp basic economics. Oil moves everything and is an ingredient to a wide range of basic materials in the whole system. You raise the price of it and your entire economy hits a inflationary spiral.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-01-24 09:34|| 2022-01-24 09:34|| Front Page Top

#5 Trouble is factory farms dump to much of that shit in the first place.

Bull. No one "dumps" more than they need, because no one is stupid enough to waste money on fertilizer they don't need.

Posted by Caesar Protector of the Esquimeaux5547 2022-01-24 09:39|| 2022-01-24 09:39|| Front Page Top

#6 It seems they want to reduce population by starving everyone.

Well, not everyone. Lee's see if Boxcar or Jerry Nadler drop a few pounds. I suspect some food will have to be confiscated to, uh. assure the continuity of essential government activities.

Posted by Matt 2022-01-24 09:42|| 2022-01-24 09:42|| Front Page Top

#7 Food production is also greatly affected and will decline. It seems they want to reduce population by starving everyone.

Its weird that everything they have done is wrong, from a production point of view.

Dumping too much fertilizer burns the crop, if you will. The big boys are incredible efficient about fertilizer. They have local and satellite measurements of soil condition which is downloaded to the applicator and individual nozzles are controlled via computer and GPS in real time as the applicator is towed across the field.

Don't let the same people who tell you washing dishes by hand is more water efficient than using a machine, only this machine scans the dishes and adjusts how much water and detergent comes out of each nozzle, further increasing water, and detergent, efficiency.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-01-24 10:44|| 2022-01-24 10:44|| Front Page Top

#8 I'm burned out on the media telling me how dumb I am. And how dumb they think I am...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-24 10:46|| 2022-01-24 10:46|| Front Page Top

#9 Michael Yon has been harping about pandemic-famine-war for a year or two.

Posted by Bobby 2022-01-24 10:57|| 2022-01-24 10:57|| Front Page Top

#10 Michael Yawn. He's still around?

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-24 10:58|| 2022-01-24 10:58|| Front Page Top

#11 DOW is down, except for Lockheed Martin. Probably don't have to explain what that might indicate.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-24 11:02|| 2022-01-24 11:02|| Front Page Top

#12 Yup. When did the Brandon admin say they wanted to start a war, February?

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-01-24 11:27|| 2022-01-24 11:27|| Front Page Top

#13 Great opportunity for a lot of people to say (true or not) "I'm not vaccinated, I can't deploy..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-24 11:29|| 2022-01-24 11:29|| Front Page Top

#14

After the first shot is fired, the VAX mandate in DoD will immediately go the way of the Edsel.

Watch for Draft Boards to be re-established, probably overnight.

New day, new crisis.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-01-24 11:32|| 2022-01-24 11:32|| Front Page Top

#15 ^ I don't know. That implies there are reality-based priorities at the Pentagon. Believe it when I see it.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-24 11:36|| 2022-01-24 11:36|| Front Page Top

#16 Will there be Margaritas? I was told there would be Margaritas.

Posted by swksvolFF 2022-01-24 11:44|| 2022-01-24 11:44|| Front Page Top

#17 You will be carrying Darth Lunch and General Vanilli in a tandem sedan chair to REMF camp Drag Race.

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-01-24 12:09|| 2022-01-24 12:09|| Front Page Top

#18 Liberals always wanted to dump human waist for fertilizer. Do they still dump it in the ocean?. So many drugs today. Think of the jokes from that idea.

Posted by Dale 2022-01-24 14:17|| 2022-01-24 14:17|| Front Page Top

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