cornapocalypse

CORNAPOCALYPSE

Food. Kind of important. Unfortunately, the food situation is a lot worse than “They” tell us, and for very good reason. If they lied to us about Beer Virus, just because the banks needed another bail-out, why would you ever think they would panic us about food? This article is about that bail-out to a degree. Because I'm beginning to wonder if Black Corona Death was JUST about the bankers. I've wondered this a lot, as you know. And I've mentioned corn. As in, does a rapidly shrinking corn crop offer MORE justification to explain current events?

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Could corn have been what led up to a lot of last years activities such as the trade war, and the current meat shortage? It is looking like Beer Virus is less and less important everyday ( as far as a threat, if we assume the economy was screwed last year and this years economic pain is just increased velocity triage ). Not only do we have Peak Oil, we have Grand Solar Minimum crop failures. I mentioned before that solar power operators were reporting ten percent decreases in output last year. My source for that is the YouTube guy Yanasa Ama Ventures.

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I had to rely on him for several points here. The Internet search engines are complete crap. I'm not talking about censorship, unless they are REALLY good at obscuring ALL points of interests a prepper might hold. I couldn't get any pertinent data on historic corn yields. It was all “yield per acre”, or “price per bushel” or “planted”. They aren't even telling me how much is produced. How hard is that to figure? You can even lie by telling the truth there, because a lot of harvested grain is stunted Crap Corn, planted too late ( having to do with insurance ).

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But they won't even give me anything other than “projections”. The above YouTube guy both sounds far more reasonable and rational than Ice Age Farmer ( I smell something off from him I can't identify. But it tends to make me notice plenty of what I consider fibs or misdirection. YA Ventures seems far more legit. But, these are my “feelers”, so take with a grain of salt ). And he has a lot of data I cannot find elsewhere. I don't know if the search engines are awesome AI ( which I tend to discount as wishful thinking from economic midgets ) that obscures all truth, the budget cuts are giving us a crap product, or what. So I have to give credence to sources such as YA Ventures with little other sources.

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I HATE only having one source for any information, as the last fifteen or so years everything is turning to crap as far as reliability. But I do get written articles and other YouTubers that have the same GENERAL information, so I have to give that one source on specifics a pass. I'll assume he is correct, as long as it is historic rather than projected. In other words, he is probably correct on the data. Conclusions I try to make on my own. The thing to keep in mind is that there is not one cause to our current situation. It isn't JUST Peak Oil or Ice Age or Economic Collapse or Overpopulation or Trade Wars or whatever. It is all of those things. A cornucopia of a feces storm.

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Peak Oil was going to screw us anyway, but the way we are collapsing is because of other factors making energy shortages worse. JUST terrible weather and crop yields are no big deal. Right now, the crops and weather intersecting are VERY similar to the early 1990's. But we had a butt ton of oil back then. JIT global crop insurance made a 50% corn crop loss here a very SMALL problem. Then. Now? Trade wars and the terrible weather has seen almost all nations ban food exports. As the oil supply shrinks. No global food insurance for the US.

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Kazakhstan is a huge wheat player, and they just banned exports. Italians needing their pasta are going to other sources. Pakistan and others in the middle of the locust swarms just lost another source to replace local wheat. I don't know if the US wheat shortage is 1) Canadian wheat had a lot of too low gluten stunted production from bad weather, 2) we are selling to too many foreigners who had local shortages, or 3) the Johnny Come Lately preppers turned to wheat as soon as the freeze dried food shortages hit. All three?

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Beer Virus food shortages are just distribution. All those households panic buying wiped out all the shelves, and our JIT system is about replacing daily use, not replacing two months of panic stockpiling. BUT. All those issues were in embryonic form LAST year, pre-Corona Mass Death. We already had shortages last year causing canneries to go to the tropics closer to the source ( like we had artificial fertilizer companies moving to the middle east in 2008, after the $140 barrel of oil price hikes. Keep in mind that the fracking gas was not yet a major player then. But the companies did NOT move back once they were ).

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The seed shortages, not just potatoes, started last year. The shortages now have to do with THAT, and the current Me Too Preppers. There were bean shortages from weather events before Corona Pandemic. And there was also pressure on diesel supplies as global conventional oil ( almost no diesel comes from light fracking oil, and fracking was the ONLY oil production growth for fifteen years ) peaked in 2005. They tell you it peaked in 2018, but that is only if they add fracking to conventional.

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Last year, if I'm understanding correctly, the mandate to mix ethanol to gasoline was lifted. Which only would have been done if the corn supply was an issue back then. YA Ventures claims a 15% drop in supply that year, but I think some of that was based on projections. I remember some stories, claiming the ethanol processors were complaining of losing money. That doesn't make sense, what with the federal welfare.

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Unless that dried up. Please pardon me. I always holler “food first”, then I'm too focused on the economic crash and don't pay enough attention to crop failures. I thought this round of Grand Solar Minimum, which is about a twelve year cycle, was going to be a big nothingburger like all the rest have been. But it looks like this is going to be severe weather like we saw 130 years ago ( give or take ). Of course, even that is conjecture, as it is easy to confuse economic and energy causes with weather ones. And we were Officially Distracted by all the Gore Warming Arseholes.

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Al Gore was awarded the position of Warming Czar after he played in the circus of the election fiasco, throwing the contest. Nothing different than a boxer taking a dive in the third, to enrich certain betters. And that evil little twat got the worlds commies all worked up over drowning polar bears. Distracted from the real problems, all these Useful Idiots tried to shove Scientific Consensus down our throats ( I think they reused the same “grant whores” to try to legitimize Corona Chan ). We were so busy fending off their brand of bullcrap, we were a bit distracted from real economic, environmental and energy issues.

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Whatever paltry millions paid to Al Gore, it was worth it, obviously. As crops failed, everywhere, the commies called for Cutting Carbon Emissions and we were busy on that false fight. Uber Kommie Kunt Greta was used as a slight of hand, along with other Blue Force feints. They might be Useful Idiots, but we proved to be Easy Distracted Chumps. Now, I'm not claiming that Weather Change isn't real. I do believe Grand Solar Minimums are much more real than Anthropological Warming ( I don't notice grapes being grown as far north as was the case centuries before coal was first burned ). I understand that the world had a VERY abnormally mild climate from about the 1930's for around a half century plus, and now the REAL weather, the roller coaster kind, is back.

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I'm just bitter the whores were calling for Crops Head North, when the exact opposite seems to be the case right now. North, where a LOT of our bulk grains come from, is where the weather failures are dog piling on each other. Not just now, but the last few years. And every year a bonus problem is added to that. And now, they cannot hide the failure. Failure of ethanol, failure of meat production ( hell, failure of sweetener. Notice how it is now cheaper in some cases to use imported sugar-even after punitive tariffs-than once nearly free corn syrup? ). I'll continue tomorrow.

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note: I was in Wally yesterday for more storage food, and I'll be damned but the bicycle section was completely empty save one tiny tot pink bike.  I've never seen Wally have but a couple of empty slots and now....they're gone.  I did warn you months ago when this first started to get your spare parts.  Not that Wally bikes are good for anything but the frames, but it is telling.  Sad Panda.
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note: it might be a fluke as I only saw one station, but diesel just went from its normal so far 16% premium over regular unleaded, down to 9.5%.  To me, that might just mean train and semi traffic took a huge dump in volume, causing supply to surge.  
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