Today, the world has plenty of food. But practically everything needed to replace that food tomorrow is being disrupted—all at once. And curiously, we may be approaching the first food crisis in history where millions are paying hundreds of dollars a month for GLP-1 drugs designed to stop them from feeling hungry. In this video, we follow the pressure building across the food system—from fertilizer and farmland to livestock, grain traders, cargo ships and grocery-store shelves—to understand why the next food crisis may already be taking shape. Because one isolated disruption is manageable. The problem is that these disruptions are no longer isolated. Buy The Deep State Encyclopedia: Exposing the Cabal's Playbook…
America's grocery squeeze has thus far been most painfully felt in a few expensive categories, like beef, coffee and chocolate. - Now, the forces pushing up food prices are starting to pile up: expensive grain, soaring fertilizer and fuel, plus unpredictable weather and raging wars. Why it matters: The next grocery price shock could hit much harder — and much wider. The big picture: Your grocery store is fed by a vast global supply chain, and pressures are building all along it. - The Iran and Russia-Ukraine wars have driven up diesel prices , making it more expensive to operate farm equipment for harvesting and to truck food from suppliers to stores. - The war in Iran has also disrupted fertilizer supply and price, as a large share…
The Netherlands has been trying to figure out what to do with manure it can no longer use thanks to environmental rules. Volatile fertilizer costs may help.
The closure of the Strait of Hormuz disrupted shipments of fertilizer and natural gas, a key component in fertilizer manufacturing. It's unlikely to cause major price hikes for U.S. grocery shoppers.
President Trump on Thursday evening will welcome a group of American farmers from across the U.S. to the White House for a dinner in the Rose Garden. The event comes as Trump has ramped up his efforts to court the voting bloc ahead of the midterm elections, after they experienced rising fertilizer costs sparked by the Iran war and pressure under the administration’s tariff agenda. “There is no greater champion for American farmers, growers, and ranchers than President Trump, who has negotiated new, fair trade deals, lowered input costs, bolstered the farm safety net, eliminated the death tax, ended taxes on rural property loan interest, and created rural opportunity zones,” White House spokesperson Olivia Wales said in a statement.…
The Iran war and lower crop prices have hurt makers of sulfur-based supplements. But farmers won’t skip nitrogen-based fertilizers, no matter the cost.
“This is what farmers want. They don’t want to farm for a check from the government,” Rollins said. They want a farm to be able to sell their goods on an open market that is fair.”
