The Coming Food Shortage: What Happens Next (And What To Do)

it used to be that when a drought flood or frost occurred we could see clearly the shortages that it would create as a result prices went up proportionally to the scarcity we were also able to pivot our cooking to accommodate the shortage of one item and then replace it with another thing we also used to be a lot closer to the individual farms from where our food came however corporate farming record-breaking droughts and heat waves in some places and in floods and cold and others lack of agricultural diversity and supply chain disruptions in economics have created a complex house of cards thus teetering they could collapse in small ways in the next few months and much larger and more dangerous ways over the next year or two it's hard to believe that a food shortage may be on the horizon when you visit your local grocery store and see well-stocked shelves it may be hard to see the actual food shortages and food collapses when it's easier to simply dismiss economics as general inflation and package shrinkage still real food scarcities are looming on the horizon these scarcities will last into the foreseeable future and will affect you in many ways in this video we'll examine some of the reasons for the food shortages what you can expect to see in the immediate future explore the anatomy of a shortage and i'll leave you with a plan you can implement today to stay ahead of the shortages if you act today you can ensure that food remains on your table when the store shelves are barren so let's jump in please consider subscribing to our newsletter by clicking on the link in the description and comment section below if you enjoyed this video please subscribe and click the like button to help the channel grow global problems it's a mistake to think that the problems we face in our day-to-day lives don't have global roots many tend to look no further than their region our country still as technology has become ubiquitous in every aspect of our lives from raw materials to manufacturing to distribution to purchasing inventories in production have been tightly linked to cells and demand global networks have sprung up to ensure that bottled water flows from fiji and asparagus from peru when it's winter in the northern hemisphere no longer is humanity bound to growing seasons and a single apple grape or computer circuit may travel thousands of miles before reaching your home but with that great ease has significant complications here are just a few of the global problems we're currently facing farming and ranching many problems accompany large-scale movement away from small farmers to large corporate agricultural operations lack of crop and species diversity it leaves food supplies lacking the genetic diversity to remain resistant to blight and disease a consolidation of practices leads to everything going right or the possibility of everything going wrong in the past the farmer who planted a little earlier or hardier seed stream because his gut told him to might escape that first frost now hundreds of thousands of acres are planted with a single genetic string simultaneously when it all goes right the crop yield is impressive but when it goes wrong it causes global losses moving the dining table further away from the food source it costs us ecologically nutritionally and economically it has caused many to lose their ability to preserve or cook food this has created a dependency on a system that repeatedly shows its weakness to us supply chain we've already seen the damage that can be done in this consolidation and distribution process into a just-in-time delivery system when bars traffic under the cracked hernando de soto bridge was halted while the crack was investigated hundreds of fully laden grain barges couldn't make it to processing and export facilities in the gulf of mexico as a result corn and soybean farmers couldn't get their products and manufacturers when the suez canal was jammed and global waterway traffic was seized up vital coffee routes between southeast asian countries in europe was disrupted and so were all the other containers manufacturers rely upon to carry thousands of different products the price of coffee in europe might not seem as relevant to you on the other side of the globe but it causes a price spike that emanates like a wave around the world while these two disruptions may not have trickled down to a visible inventory difference at your local grocery store they are still affecting you now the effects lag behind the price increases and manufacturers cannot always offset the effects with inventory on hand the evergreen getting stuck in the suez canal or the express pearl catching fire off the coast of sri lanka are other recent disasters the impact of these supply chain failures is sometimes absorbed and unnoticed other times they can delay manufacturing in a host of products for months into the future it's just a matter of time before one of these global distribution systems lasts long enough to deplete manufacturer stores of raw materials at that point panic buying will set in and completely strip the soar shelves we saw that with the toilet paper panic buying of 2020 and we'll see it again soon with certain food supplies infrastructure attacks of infrastructure have revealed precisely how delicate of a system upon which we become dependent when the jbs meat processing plants were temporarily shut down a centralized system that was highly vulnerable to failure was revealed though automated bee processing was brought back online the prices they still jump meat packing is a highly consolidated industry just seven companies control eighty-five percent of beef production in over fifty percent of chicken production in some cases the meat's true origin around from ranch to table it's not really known have you ever noticed the labels that indicate a single cut of beef that is a product of the usa mexico and canada more people eating at home this last year delays in grain and snacks at processing facilities have all contributed to meat price increases the cost of boneless skinless chicken breasts has more than doubled since the beginning of 2021 and wing prices have hit record highs meat companies cost their rising and this is being pushed back to the consumer grain prices which are typically the most significant expense in raising animals have jumped over this past year grain prices have been pushed to new highs by growing exports to china and poor weather for south american farmers weather farming distribution processing there are problems all the way across the board and everywhere around the world the entire west of the united states is locked into one of the worst heat waves and droughts in history a study of tree ring records has revealed that the current mega drought hasn't been similarly seen since at least the 16th century and relief it's not on the horizon new mexico arizona colorado utah nevada california wyoming montana idaho oregon and washington are all experiencing severe to exceptional drought conditions many farmers are choosing not to plant crops this year because they have no guarantee of stable irrigation water resources other farmers are desperately trying to plow on their previous crops to reseed and grow more drought tolerant crops the other 10 states aside california's agricultural abundance includes more than 400 commodities over a third of the country's vegetables and two-thirds of the country's fruits and nuts are grown in california and we're talking about the edible fruits and nuts not just a citizenry but both means could apply the failure of crops and yields in this state alone will have global repercussions when any land experiences season after season of drought and dry conditions soil it becomes compacted when the sweet relief of rain does finally come it doesn't often absorb into the land but runs off and causes flooding elsewhere colorado water companies have become so desperate to control every drop of water that they have begun to use satellite imagery to charge farmers for man-made lakes and ponds on their property some were built over 80 years ago already it's considered a crime to collect rainwater colorado has been the only state with an outright ban on residential rain barrels in just one of four states that restrict rainwater harvesting california derives more than 15 percent of its surface water supplies from the colorado river as the drought deepens it won't just be the farmers and ranchers who are desperate municipalities cities and towns will struggle to provide clean drinkable water to their citizens not just in america too droughts from taiwan to africa to peru to afghanistan to parts of europe droughts are becoming more severe water scarcity impacts 40 percent of the world's population and as many as 700 million people are at risk of being displaced due to drought by 2030 at the same time some oyster farmers in australia were wiped out after floods in taiwan farmers are being asked not to grow to divert water to the computer chip manufacturing industry a powerful cyclone in may that struck india wiped out billions of dollars of the shrimp farming industry arkansas louisiana and texas flooding right now in the us are devastating agriculture the floods have destroyed thousands of acres of crops dealing a financial hit to farmers looking forward to a good year of yields in february winter weather conditions at blanket texas with snow ice and frigid temperatures damaged texas agricultural crops from citrus to corn to sorghum melons and potatoes if it's not extreme heat and droughts in one place its floods and storms are freezing temperatures in another both have impacted some areas droughts caused by intense summer heat coupled with severe winter storms have almost wiped out olive cultivation in some regions of the mediterranean basin in a previous video i informed subscribers that the price of a ton of olive oil was up 182 this year manufacturers will run out of their stores of olive oil and will pass the price increases due to scarcity onto consumers in recent years farmers in australia battered by fires floods and pandemic disruptions now face a plague of mice wiping out their crops the pandemic created a labor drought that left 2020's good harvest of fruit to rot on trees that led to an explosion of mice there are hundreds of more stories and thousands of individual stories but you only need to know a couple to know that a food crisis is looming on the horizon while the world has always had bad weather somewhere there is no denying that the swings of weather patterns have become more volatile and more extreme the centralization of agricultural operations has reduced diversity and resilience in what has grown and the consolidation of processing has made shortage and price increases a reality global problems start at a regional level and what happens in one place will have far reaching global impacts expect that these global problems will continue expect that each crop failure you hear about will trickle to you even across the globe from it expect that as bad news breaks about these failures existing supplies will be bought up and depleted anatomy of a shortage as we've seen this year the threat of a potential shortage can actually lead to shortages whether that's people snapping up more toilet paper than they could use in a lifetime or just people filling whatever containers they can get their hands on with gasoline panic is part of the anatomy of a shortage as much as people would like to blame the news and mainstream media for creating an atmosphere of fear and panic fewer people are watching the news since january cnn has shed 792 000 viewers msnbc is down 788 thousand fox is down 348 000 world news tonight on abc is down 1.8 million viewers in april versus january nbc's nightly news is down 1.7 million viewers in that same time period the reality is that people are tired of bad news and the mainstream media's constant barrage of political division and doom the panic buying is more homegrown it starts with real shortages and shipping delays it begins with real ransomware attacks and actual job losses it begins with the core failure of the system and the people that extrapolate out from that their first thought is that they have to prepare for what's coming this is where they can interfere with your actual preps the fact that you are here reading blogs and watching videos on prepping means that you have decided long ago to begin preparing for the bad things that can happen hopefully if you're acting now upon what you've learned you have already secured a supply of the first things to leave the store shelves when the panic buying begins rice beans pasta canned foods bottled water paper products long shelf-life foods camping equipment fishing tackle and hunting gear medicines just like we saw at the beginning of the pandemic lockdowns are all the first to leave the shelves the second part of the anatomy of a shortage is the assessment phase here people try to determine how far-reaching the shortages will be and how extensive the crisis is panic buying has exacerbated the problem regardless of whether the panic was warranted prices go up dwindling supply in a high demand environment when prices go up they tend not to restore themselves at lower levels if the shortage is warranted you will begin to see secondary markets being impacted due to china's consumption a global shortage of steel sheets to make cans for food production threatens tomato crops in california and italy tomatoes need to be canned within 36 hours of picking without the can to put them in tomatoes can be left to over ripen even rot in the field so though the shortage is really with the steel distribution it has a significant secondary effect on the tomato industry the impact of the third part of the anatomy of a shortage is determined by whether a solution to the crisis or shortage can be seen if it continues to worsen with no clear end in sight the third phase will result in even more panic buying hoarding and other shortages this is where the just-in-time inventory system becomes overly strained right now there may be just enough product x y or z on your source shelves that quantity is based upon years of data of recorded cells suddenly all the inventory is snapped up in just a few hours but manufacturers they can't simply ramp up to meet demand they have adjusted and fine-tuned their systems to minimize raw materials on hand and to the meet demand precisely the surge causes these manufacturers to desperately try to obtain new materials that causes more shortages because raw material producers have fine-tuned the process as well they're fulfilling their orders based on years of data on demand their capability to simply produce more raw material isn't there because the cell of the raw material is carefully aligned with demand no mining operation will suddenly threefold its production and bring on millions of dollars in equipment and thousands of new workers for a market demand that might not continue so just as you might have rolling blackouts in a power crisis rolling shortages are the third phase in the anatomy of a shortage these shortages they feed off each other and are stoked by the rumor mill at this point many turn to the finger of blame to politicians but that doesn't really honestly do any good the failings aren't at the local region or a national level they are global but they're not carefully orchestrated by a cabal of super smart and manipulative leaders lurking in the shadows typically people who believe this are failing to see the more significant global mechanisms driving the shortage it's for this exact reason that many fail to see how shortages droughts or inflation on products they don't buy will impact them nonetheless it's always easiest to blame the perceived person in charge instead of taking the time to understand the larger picture and the interconnections of finely tuned systems are politicians somewhat to blame sure we expect them to have that long vision to keep our lives stable but we probably expect too much of them and entrust them with too much of what should be ultimately our responsibility not looking to cast blame but taking personal responsibility and control of our future is the key this is why on this channel i recommend and promote self-sufficiency you are in control of your own life the fourth part of the anatomy of a shortage is a political side as governments step in and try to correct the errors of a commerce system that walks a tightrope of razor thin inventories and historical demand data and just enough manufacturing to meet those historical demands it can make matters worse rationing supplies here and dating supplies over there allocating and regulating to right the ship can create more problems in panic remember the evergreen tanker that was stuck in the suez and caused a stoppage of hundreds of cargo vessels and a shortage of shipping containers resulting in manufacturers around the world pulling the plug on their production lines it is yet to deliver any of those almost 18 000 containers stacked eight to nine containers high believe it or not the vessel is still sitting in the middle part of the suez canal no longer blocking traffic but unable to proceed on its journey until someone pays a billion dollars worth of compensation for damages in the week that the canal was shut down to the egyptian government governments may sometimes try their best but it doesn't always restore the supply chain your plan gps so what's the solution i like to remember the solution by remembering the acronym gps here i don't mean global positioning satellite though your location in the equation is part of the solution freeing yourself from dependence on global systems that will fell with greater regularity and continue to do so is part of the solution find local sources for eggs honey produce meat even soap reduce the distance traveled from the source to your house that won't punish the big conglomerates nor is that the goal the reason to get more local is that it builds those connections you will need as things get worse it also forces you to buy larger quantities of products in some cases this forces you to put into natural light your consumption habits from that new light you can adjust your habits to be more self-sufficient and less dependent it also informs you as to where your dependencies are the g of gps is growing you have to grow something if you aren't already if you are you need to look for ways to expand your growing this might mean for you to grow your skills foraging is a skill hunting and fishing your skills gardening is a skill even growing microorganisms in your kitchen adds just a little bit to your supplies it alone will obviously not sustain you and many cannot create even a tiny garden but adding even a little resource your inventory will significantly increase your odds of survival through a prolonged downturn the p of gps is preserved get in the habit of finding the bulk deals learn how to preserve the food either by cooking canning freeze drying or dehydrating learn what you need to know to stretch every bit of the food that comes through your door don't throw out those carrot tops but make a pesto don't throw out those over ripening berries but dehydrate them for later use when something is cheap and in season think of how you can preserve a considerable amount to sustain yourself at later times many families have sustained themselves through long winters and through rough times because of their ability to preserve the food that they came across that bumper crop of tomatoes can be turned into a sauce that will sustain you long into the winter when properly can these herbs that will die in the first frost can be harvested and dried to provide vital nutrients and flavors when winter engulfs you don't throw out that bacon or beef grease learn how to cook with it before your store shelves run out of your favorite cooking oil finally the s in gps is store as in store up what you need to sustain you from water to food your ultimate survival depends upon your preps if you're still utterly dependent on popping by the grocery store on the way home from work you're not going to make it through an extended disaster you have to have what you need on hand or at least enough to pivot in a different direction do you have an emergency 72 hour kit of food great now work on developing preserving storing the week three weeks three months or even more in the most horrible tragedies a three-month supply can be stretch even further you might not be making your calorie targets and slowly running a net loss but you'll survive longer than three months if you can supplement your stores here and there you might be able to stretch it out even further if you took the time to dry those berries and can that marinara sauce from the bumper crops you'll even get more time out of your food supplies and do you have enough water stored up it's not realistic for you to store a year's worth of water it's not possible but that's a lot of water that most of us don't have space to store given this fact do you have the means to filter purify or boil water to make it drinkable begin with the essence store up water to get you through a short disaster but make sure you have a plan for the long haul one easy method for understanding the gps is to save your receipts then go through them line by line in separate needs from once do you need that item or did you merely want it it's okay to enjoy a cup of coffee away from home but ask yourself what you'll do when the coffee shortages comes do you plan on storing up coffee beans can you make the switch to tea or will you give up caffeine cold turkey maybe doing so now would allow you to allocate resources to the things on your receipts that you could see that force you to rely upon a global system that is showing you its cracks take a personal inventory of your expenditures and see if there is a way that you can get more local with your needs is there a way to grow your food or increase your skills that lead to obtaining more food is there a way for you to preserve more and throw out less finally is there a way to store what you need to survive should the systems around you fail remember gps it isn't a matter of when these shortages will occur at some point they will it's not an outlandish possibility of the thing of a dystopian hollywood movie any longer it's unfolding before our eyes in real time even if they're thousands of miles from you they will impact you in your own home knowing this what are your plans to deal with this reality the reality is that the further we move into the luxuries of convenience the more we rely upon systems that bring food vital resources to our homes from thousands of miles away the more our independence and self-sufficiency we trade for modern comforts use the system gps that i outlined here to discover your location in the system and to navigate your way to self-sufficiency what's your plan to become more self-sufficient what's your first goal tell us in the comments below so other members can share your insights if you found this video informative and helpful please click that thumbs up icon it's a little thing but it helps us build our community i can notify you when other videos become available if you subscribe to this channel as always stay safe out there you

Channel: City Prepping

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Keywords: crop failure, global crop failure, drought, california drought, global warming, climate change, food scarcity, inflation, supply chain problems, just in time delivery, prepper, preppers, doomsday prepper

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Length: 23min 25sec (1405 seconds)

Published: Sat Jun 26 2021