Food shortages are kicking in in America

This is a heads-up.  More to come.

Trump's "Urgent" Press 

Conference Sunday was 

about FOOD

Hal Turner shared some very important information with his subscribers that I will not repost here.

Basically, however, Trump held an "Urgent" press conference at the White House today and the message he gave the American people was "Stop buying SO MUCH." and the stores are doing everything possible to re-supply as fast as possible and everything is going to be there. Relax. Have a nice dinner. The CEO of Walmart told me (the President) ""They're buying more than they do at Christmas."

However, his sources have pointed to the following problems (and it makes sense to me)

1. VIRUS SPREAD

-The virus is spreading via "community-transmission" in EVERY major city and large town in the country. The CDC told the President that in typical disease outbreaks, "community-transmission" requires one percent (1%) of the total, LOCAL, population to already be infected. For a country like the United States, with confirmed disease outbreaks on both geographic coasts and in the heartland (Chicago), one percent infected means NO ONE WHO GOES OUTSIDE IS SAFE, ANYWHERE OUTSIDE.

2: FOOD 

As you will remember last year saw major and long-term flooding throughout the mid-western US, which caused farmers to plant crops very late in the season because the ground was too wet to plant earlier. That meant the "growing season" started very late last season.

As harvest time approached, the same mid-western US saw early arrival of Winter. Early freezes KILLED much of the crops while they were still in the ground.

In addition, the flooding which hit the mid-western US drowned over one million head of food cattle last year. This drastically reduced the available stocks of Beef.

Poultry -- Chickens and Turkey encountered various bouts of low-pathogen Bird Flu which killed many, or forced owners to euthanize flocks.

Pork -- Pigs encountered Swine Flu, causing many to be euthanized.

Now, it seems that we have a Perfect Storm with shortages that started to show up in November.

Now, with the outbreak of Coronavirus, and Americans "stocking-up" the drastically indications are that food is running out

In addition , Hal Turner pointed out that it is the AVAILABILITY of food that is the problem rather than the ability of getting food to market,

"Trucking companies barely have any freight to move. Thousands in that industry are being laid off. Even top carriers like FedEx are laying off drivers for lack of freight.”



Yesterday, the Wall Street Journal published a story about the empty shelves in stores nationwide. In that article the newspaper quoted Grocer Executives and this particular section and quote was very revealing:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/grocers-fail-to-keep-up-with-demand-as-coronavirus-pandemic-spreads-11584196579


"Across the country, lines to get into stores snaked around corners, checkout times stretched as long as an hour and whole aisles were rendered bare this week as companies told more workers to stay home and schools began to cancel classes.


Food companies had been preparing for greater demand, but the surge was higher and faster than expected, executives said.


“We don’t know how to anticipate for that,” said Susan Morris, chief operating officer at Albertsons Cos., the nation’s second-largest grocer.


She said the company spent the past two weeks adding extra stock at its more than 2,200 stores. But “you get to a point in time where products are simply not available.” Albertsons said it is also carrying less variety of goods to speed up the restocking process.

I presume he will be talking more about this in his radio show tomorrow.

Put simply I could put it this way:

More from Ice Farmer, who thinks all this is due to an coming ice age but still has useful information.