{"id":6642,"date":"2022-09-10T14:59:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-10T18:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/?p=6642"},"modified":"2022-09-10T14:59:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-10T18:59:19","slug":"food-shortages-not-going-to-happen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/10\/food-shortages-not-going-to-happen\/","title":{"rendered":"Food Shortages- Not Going to Happen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>About 90% of what I read online is complete junk. I take breaks reading the junk here and there. But I can&#8217;t help myself sometimes. There is a website called &#8220;The Economic Collapse Blog&#8221;. I visit it once in a while for comic relief. The latest article talks about food shortages in 2023. He starts off the article as most would. Promoting fear.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Things are far worse than you are being told. Over the past few months, I have been carefully documenting facts that show that global food production is going to be way down in 2022. Unfortunately, most people out there don\u2019t seem to understand that the food that isn\u2019t being grown in 2022 won\u2019t be on our store shelves in 2023. We are potentially facing an absolutely unprecedented worldwide food crisis next year, but the vast majority of the population doesn\u2019t seem very alarmed about this. So I would encourage you to help me get this warning out by sharing this list with as many people as you possibly can. As you will see below, we now have so many data points that it is impossible to deny what is coming. The following is a list of 33 things we know about the coming food shortages\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Let&#8217;s take a look at the first nine facts:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>#1<\/strong> The\u00a0hard red winter wheat crop in the United States this year <a title=\"\u201cwas the smallest since 1963\u201d\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/the-summer-drought-s-hefty-toll-on-american-crops\/ar-AA11tEX3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cwas the smallest since 1963\u201d<\/a>.\u00a0 But in 1963, there were only 182 million people living in this nation.\u00a0 Today, our population has grown to 329 million.<br \/>\n<strong>#2<\/strong> It is <a title=\"being projected\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/the-summer-drought-s-hefty-toll-on-american-crops\/ar-AA11tEX3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">being projected<\/a> that the rice harvest in California will be\u00a0\u201chalf what it would be in a normal year\u201d.<br \/>\n<strong>#3<\/strong> The U.S. tomato harvest will come in at just <a title=\"10.5 million tons\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/the-summer-drought-s-hefty-toll-on-american-crops\/ar-AA11tEX3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10.5 million tons<\/a> in 2022.\u00a0 That is over a million tons lower than a normal year.<br \/>\n<strong>#4<\/strong> This will be the worst U.S. corn harvest <a title=\"in at least a decade\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/the-summer-drought-s-hefty-toll-on-american-crops\/ar-AA11tEX3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in at least a decade<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>#5<\/strong> Year-to-date shipments of carrots in the United States are down <a title=\"45 percent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/the-summer-drought-s-hefty-toll-on-american-crops\/ar-AA11tEX3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">45 percent<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>#6<\/strong> Year-to-date shipments of sweet corn in the United States are down <a title=\"20 percent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/the-summer-drought-s-hefty-toll-on-american-crops\/ar-AA11tEX3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">20 percent<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>#7<\/strong> Year-to-date shipments of sweet potatoes in the United States are down <a title=\"13 percent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/the-summer-drought-s-hefty-toll-on-american-crops\/ar-AA11tEX3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">13 percent<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>#8<\/strong> Year-to-date shipments of celery in the United States are down <a title=\"11 percent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/the-summer-drought-s-hefty-toll-on-american-crops\/ar-AA11tEX3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">11 percent<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>#9<\/strong> Total peach production in the U.S. is down <a title=\"15 percent\" href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/the-summer-drought-s-hefty-toll-on-american-crops\/ar-AA11tEX3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">15 percent<\/a> from last year.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I click the link to each of the nine facts. They link back to the same MSN article which is written by Laura Reiley. I find it humorous that a right wing website is linking back to an article written by a left wing political hack.<br \/>\nI also found it interesting that fact #1 is very specific about hard red winter wheat. All of these facts smell like a classic media trick: factual but not relevant. So I go to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/data-products\/wheat-data\/\">USDA website<\/a> and decide to plot the data for all wheat supply quarterly going back to 2007. Not just cherry pick hard red winter wheat.<br \/>\n<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"6643\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/stockpicks4you.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/10\/food-shortages-not-going-to-happen\/total-wheat-supply\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stockpicks4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Total-wheat-supply.png?fit=932%2C583&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"932,583\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Total wheat supply\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stockpicks4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Total-wheat-supply.png?fit=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stockpicks4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Total-wheat-supply.png?fit=660%2C413&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6643\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stockpicks4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Total-wheat-supply.png?resize=660%2C413&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stockpicks4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Total-wheat-supply.png?w=932&amp;ssl=1 932w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stockpicks4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Total-wheat-supply.png?resize=300%2C188&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/stockpicks4you.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Total-wheat-supply.png?resize=768%2C480&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><br \/>\nLo and Behold, total wheat production is just about near its all time high.<br \/>\nAs long as prices are allowed to function there will be no food shortages.\u00a0 If there are food shortages, it will be because of government imposed price controls. The same author wrote similar pieces about food shortages dating back to 2011. You can read one <a href=\"https:\/\/seekingalpha.com\/article\/263838-20-reasons-to-be-prepared-for-a-global-food-crisis\">here<\/a>.<br \/>\nPrediction: In the year 2023, you will not experience food shortages if you live in the first world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 90% of what I read online is complete junk. I take breaks reading the junk here and there. But I can&#8217;t help myself sometimes. There is a website called &#8220;The Economic Collapse Blog&#8221;. I visit it once in a while for comic relief. The latest article talks about food shortages in 2023. 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