Archive for the 'Food' Category
Unbelievable Pictures of Iowa Flooding
June 20th, 2008Must see. Via: Boston Globe.
Brown Pushes EU to Allow More GMO Animal Feeds
June 20th, 2008Grim. Via: Independent: Gordon Brown is calling on the European Union to relax its rules on importing genetically modified animal feed in a further sign of the Government’s willingness to embrace the controversial technology. Mr Brown believes GM crops are vital to the attempt to cut spiralling food prices. His proposal comes the day after […]
FLOODING TO INFLATE GROCERY BILLS ACROSS THE BOARD
June 19th, 2008Via: Des Moines Register: For consumers feeling the pinch of higher food prices, the flooding of prime Midwest farmland will bring more bad news in supermarkets through next year. By wiping out corn and soybean crops across Iowa, Illinois and other states, the flood is driving up prices that were already at historic highs and […]
The Best Farmland in the U.S. Is Flooded; Most Americans Are Too Stupid to Panic
June 19th, 2008The best commentary I could offer is a link to a previous story: World’s Largest Maker of Crop Nutrients: Famines May Occur Without Record Harvests But I’ll ramble on a bit more about this, anyway. As soon as I became aware of the flooding situation in the American Midwest, I posted the story with the […]
MEXICO FREEZES PRICES ON FOOD ITEMS TO STEM INFLATION
June 19th, 2008Via: Houston Chronicle: Moving to stem rising inflation and civil discontent, President Felipe Calderon and Mexican industrialists announced an agreement Wednesday to freeze prices on more than 150 food items. The pact, which will be in effect through the end of the year, comes amid escalating costs of corn and other staples of the Mexican […]
Australia: Food Bowl Areas Soon “Beyond Repair”
June 18th, 2008Via: Bloomberg: Parts of Australia’s key Murray-Darling river food bowl may be beyond recovery unless a prolonged dry spell and political wrangling over water use ends by October, a leaked scientific report warned on Wednesday. “There has been 10 years at least that people have said you have got to restore the environmental flows to […]
University of Illinois Crop Scientist: Planting After June 20 May Cause Yields to Shrink by Half
June 12th, 2008Via: Grainnet: A costly deadline looms for many growers in the Midwest, as every day of waiting for the weather to cooperate to plant corn and soybeans reduces potential yields. Research indicates that Illinois growers who plant corn or soybeans near the end of June can expect a 50 percent reduction in crop yield, according […]
Spanish Shoppers Stockpile Food and Fuel as Protests Cut Off Supplies
June 11th, 2008Via: Reuters: Spanish drivers and shoppers stockpiled fuel and food on Tuesday, fearing shortages after lorry drivers blocked deliveries across the country for a second day of an indefinite protest at the high price of fuel. Cars queued at petrol stations — 40 percent of which had run out of fuel in the worst affected […]
EMERGENCY: MULTIPLE FACTORS POINTING TO LOWER CROP YIELDS
June 11th, 2008Remember this one from several months back? World’s Largest Maker of Crop Nutrients: Famines May Occur Without Record Harvests Flash forward to today. We see problems with next year’s crops all over the world. Via: New York Times: In a year when global harvests need to be excellent to ease the threat of pervasive food […]
U.S. Food Reserves Tapped Out
June 10th, 2008Via: Tri State Observer: “According to the May 1, 2008 CCC inventory report there are only 24.1 million bushels of wheat in inventory, so after this sale there will be only 2.7 million bushels of wheat left the entire CCC inventory,” warned Matlack. “Our concern is not that we are using the remainder of our […]
