The Other Reason Why Food Prices Are Rising

The United Nations’ worst-case scenario calculation is that food prices will rise by an additional 8.5% by 2027. Part of those higher costs is due to more expensive fertilizers as some have seen 300% price spikes over the past year, according to the American Farm Bureau. Farmers may be forced to pass those costs along to customers, resulting in higher grocery prices. Fertilizer is essential for crops. Without fertilizer, plants may not get the nourishment they need to result in the yields necessary to feed the global population. According to the International Fertilizer Association, we would only be able to feed about half of the global population without fertilizer.
Watch the video above to learn more about why the world is faced with a fertilizer crisis, supply chain woes, climate change impact and potential solutions on the horizon.
"Last year [fertilizer] was around $270 per ton and now it's over $1,400 per ton," Meagan Kaiser, of Kaiser Family Farms and farmer-director of the United Soybean Board, told NBC's "Nightly News with Lester Holt."
"It's scary. It turns my stomach a little bit to think about the amount of risk that our family farm is taking right now."
Farmers are trying to adjust to this new normal. When surveyed in spring 2022 about what they intended to plant, farmers said they were turning to more soybean, according to U.S. Department of Agriculture data, or a record 91 million acres of the legume. That may be because legumes don't require as much fertilizer as corn to grow.
Spikes in fertilizer prices started when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.
"It's amazing how dependent the world is on fertilizers from the region that we're talking about Russia and Ukraine," Johanna Mendelson Forman, adjunct professor at American University's School of International Service, told CNBC.
The region is responsible for at least 28% of the world's fertilizer exports, including nitrogen-, potassium- and phosphorus-based fertilizers, according to Morgan Stanley.
Also factoring into price spikes are rising natural gas costs.
"There's a direct relationship with what we're seeing in fuel prices and fertilizer prices," Jo Handelsman, director of the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, told CNBC.
That's because fossil fuels are used in the manufacturing process of fertilizers - and is one of the reasons that they can contribute to climate change.
Plus, if farmers overuse fertilizers, the chemicals can run off into waterways, causing environmental damage, pollution and illnesses.
"I'm not saying that the fertilizer is bad ... our soil naturally has nutrients," Ronald Vargas, secretary of the Global Soil Partnership for the United Nations. "If [soil] is naturally depleted, then you need to find a way to make those nutrients available."
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The Other Reason Why Food Prices Are Rising

[@caracrabtree715]

In the late 70’s they pushed all the farmers to grow tons of corn, now almost all our food supply contains some sort of corn additive and as does almost all animal feed. Maybe we should shift to pea and bean based additives now.

[@nicasia3867]

They want us to. They want us to stop eating meat and start eating soy based meat alternatives, like Beyond Meat. There's a reason but I don't know what it is... can't be good and is not meant to be good for us though. It's definitely partly about control and greed, profit.

[@lilblackduc7312]

Governments are pushing the 'hard sell' in schools for children to eat bugs. Eventually, they will force all citizens to eat "Soylent Green".

[@joshlanders]

Maybe they should not push for anything. Let the customer demand the needs. We have probably too much reliance for corn. Alternatively crops ought to be closest to home vs thousands of miles away.

[@mr.g816]

@@joshlanders in WWII farmers actually had to meet a quota for producing Hemp. You can harvest hemp (entire plant and seeds) a few times a year. It's drought resistant and doesn't need fertilizer. Their deep roots are beneficial to the ground and the organisms that live there. Hemp for Victory is a film made by the USDA in 1942 to support the war effort. Hemp ropes last a lot longer and canvas is made from hemp too Anywhere where corn grows well, Hemp does even better

[@boboutelama5748]

@@joshlanders The customer is an absolute idiot. He wants giant fruits, redder than red, greener than green, perfect under the light of sun. The expectations of customers are the opposite of nature. Add to that, that we literally had all our wishes realized since the 60's, that lead to a rapid destruction of wildlife and the world as we knew it. When should we stop ? When will we learn ?.

[@CarlosRodriguez-hb3vq]

My father was a farmer and agronomist and always said “POT ash”, as in ashes in a pot. Never heard it called “POE tash”

[@roxaskinghearts]

Its to late either we get these lands to rehydrate there underground aquafers they let coke drain or we are all under water there is no middle ground right now this isnt fear mongering this is a fact the world has to come together to solve this or we die all this before our ice caps completely melt then mexico and the usa will be islands the peaks of our mountains islands the Christian bible sounds more like a warning from aliens the more i listen to it or god but something that knew the kind of trial we needed to overcome our differences as a world help all or die as a whole sounds like build clean and smart or dont build at all if you cant take care of everyone then fix it so you can

[@j10001]

Same. It’s POT-ash

[@EdHayes3]

Dictionary also says pät-ˌash. How was this not caught prior to release of the video?

[@JusticeAlways]

Canadians. 😄

[@cosmoray9750]

The title should read " The WEF created the fertilizer shortage ". There. I fixed it for you....👍💥

[@richard8000]

Brilliant!😀

[@kathymcmc]

Thank you for some refreshing honesty, @Cosmo Ray.

[@happypeasanthomestead344]

Exactly

[@samzhang486]

Exactly!!

[@Banditomojado]

Why is she saying potash like that? It’s pot-ash.

[@Tricky-Dick]

@Mitchell Fitzpatrick no it’s pot-ash because they used to get it from a pot. There are no pistachios in that ash is there?

[@anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180]

She’s new here

[@Schmexy]

I cringed a bit when she pronounced it like that. A quick dictionary search tells you it's potassium carbonate from wood ash.

[@Trigger200284]

the element potassium literally is derived from pot ash, not pote ash, its not PO tassium its pah tassium.

[@jordanabendroth6458]

We don't say pot-assium, we say poe-tassium

[@mathisnotforthefaintofheart]

In my area they (finally) opened an Aldi's. And while the stuff is cheaper than at those overpriced "luxurious" supermarkets, I did notice that Aldi's isn't so cheap as it used to be. But....buying simple stuff and cook your food at home instead of eating out goes a looong way. I stopped buying sodas and I drink much more water too. I buy cheaper store brand whole wheat bread (put it in the toaster and it tastes fine). Bananas are cheaper than apples. And there are always weekly ads. Only those who can adjust will survive.

[@user-ic1ii7ky8p]

Yeah it really isn’t that much cheaper than other grocery stores now

[@juliopatinopacheco9050]

Aldi knows how to trick their prices

[@bh9262]

I like most stores, store brands, but I don’t care for Aldi store brands. And I agree they aren’t as inexpensive as they used to be.

[@joelhuesby]

As an organic farmer I stand next to 11 foot high corn that is growing in a soil that has had no chemical fertilizers for over 30 years. Legumes in rotation - and in companion with grains - enables us to grow plentiful healthy food without acidifying the soil. On conventional farms, nitrogen fertilizers make the soil acidic to where farmers will not be able to grow crops at all. This tragedy is already here in some areas and will only get worse in the next few years and decades. It is a very big 'sleeping giant' that virtually no one is aware of. Further, it is extremely costly and logistically difficult to amend the soil with lime to correct the decades of abuse. Both farmers and the peoples of the world will need to come to grips with this and go back to past organic practices that are now more relevant than ever. Please don't take my word for this, have a look as the practices, science, and chemistry for yourselves. Farmer Joel

[@eitkoml]

How do your per acre yields compare with conventional farms? I'm skeptical, but I have been told that the only way to get adequate yields to feed nearly 8 billion people is through the massive use of synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, etc. I wonder how regenerative practices like crop rotation, periodic livestock grazing on land, etc. affect yields. I also wonder how much an organically rich microbiome in the soil affects yields, along with the strength and health of plants. A lot of fungus and bacteria in the soil. Right now the soil is viewed in terms of its chemistry (how much nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium it has), and its physical properties like acidity, alkalinity, sand content, clay content, etc. The abundance, or lack of, microorganisms in soil is neglected.

[@joelhuesby]

@@eitkoml Some or our yields are as good as or even better than conventional (130 bushel wheat, 3.6 ton barley) and some are less by up to a third. As I and our soil get better yields have and will continue to improve and as conventional gets more sick its yields will drop off at some point. We feed the soil. The soil feeds the plants. We don't feed the plants. The soil needs organic matter so we incorporate as much as we are able. Conventional looks at the soil more as a medium to prop up a plant so it can be fed chemical fertilizers of the farmer's control.

[@bernardedwards8461]

If they could cross wheat with giant bamboo. which is also a kind of grass, you could have corn 60 feet high with wheat grains the size of chestnuts!

[@eitkoml]

@@joelhuesby That's great news. Do you need to constantly add material to your fields? Also, do you practice regenerative farming?

[@bernardedwards8461]

11 ft high? That's nothing. If you could cross wheat with giant bamboo. which are both grasses, you could have wheat 60 ft high with wheat grains the size of chestnuts! You could then say goodbye to woodpigeons and crop circles, The vandals/aliens couldn't trample down your corn..

[@Robertgriffinne]

I'm 58 and my wife and I are VERY worried about our future, gas and food prices rising daily. We have had our savings dwindle with the cost of living into the stratosphere, we are finding it impossible to replace it. We can get by, but cant seem to get ahead. My condolences to anyone retiring in this crisis, 40years nonstop just for a crooked system to take all you worked for,

[@Natalieneptune469]

I feel your pain, as a fellow retiree I’d suggest you look into passive index fund investing and learn some more. For me,I had my share of ups and downs when I first started looking for a consistent passive income so I hired an investment advisor for aid, and following her advice, I poured $130k in value stocks and digital assets,Up 200k so far and pretty sure I'm ready for whatever comes.

[@wiebeplatt4749]

[@Robertgriffinne]

@@Natalieneptune469 I've been in the red for the past couple months, lost 12k last week alone, Indubitably I've got good companies but profit is still stalling, how did you go around finding an investment-advisor, I wouldn't mind looking yours up.

[@Natalieneptune469]

@@Robertgriffinne My advisor is Nicole Ann Sabin; found her on Bloomberg where she was featured and reached out to her afterwards. You can look her up online if you care for supervision, just search her name.

[@marianparker7502]

@@Natalieneptune469 sure advisors are outperforming the market and raising good returns but some are charging fees over fees....seeing that their services are in high demand more than ever....Seems more like extortion to me.

[@YTDataAnalyst]

With the way things are moving, I think I need to see a video on "How to survive amidst the present recession". I mean, everything is in shambles. Surprisingly I heard people still make over 100K within a few months, and I'd like to know How and if it is still possible in these times or if I am being lazy.

[@kathleenstoner.n7499]

Have this at the back of your mind. There are good days, and there are bad days. It is a zero-sum game, However, always follow these tips: Save and Invest wisely and make sure to diversify your investments so when another is down, the other will be up. You can do so by getting an experienced specialist whose platform has diverse investment choices to choose from. By doing this, you give little room for regrets and perhaps gain more.

[@kathleenstoner.n7499]

@frederick higson Funny enough, I can honestly relate. I don't know if I am permitted to drop this here, do run a check on "Sandra Yvonne Webster". Was in the news alot in 2020.

[@sonyablack2015]

@@kathleenstoner.n7499 The world itself is a zero-sum game.

[@sakhalittle9206]

Oh but didn’t you hear, that the current administration says everything is fine everything is great and there is no recession

[@underdogtv2855]

I thinks its funny how they change their tone and didn't try to blame Russia 😂😂🤪.

[@YgiulAiramAst]

I operate fishponds and we use fertilizer and chicken manure to grow food for milkfish. Last year 1 sack(50kg) of fertilizer cost around $18 now its around $55-60

[@moosepotato420]

Have you experimented with aquaponics?

[@YgiulAiramAst]

@@moosepotato420 We operate with saltwater in our fishpond so I don't think it will be applicable. Will research more about it though. Thank you for the idea

[@samiurrahman2255]

hey bro i wanna know how long will phosphorous last before it runs out?

[@chrisperkins7331]

I live in a third world country on about $900 a month with ease. We have about 10 acres of land which we use to grow some crops to eat, and some to sell. I don't have a car, and I live in a cheap house that we built ourselves with some help. I am not always stressed out about stuff so I am not on any medication despite being 75. We use the pig waste to fertilize the fields, and non toxic pesticide to handle the few insect problems we have. If you want to not have to worry about rising prices then reduce your need to buy stuff.

[@missmodern]

I am. Stopped collecting dolls to put money towards food.

[@messijr5145]

Sounds nice but living off the land is def a lower standard of living than having a decent career and living in the suburbs. Day and night difference in the standard of living. Further, it's not feasible for everyone on earth to live like you do

[@g.christelbecker6349]

@@messijr5145 it is an option, take your pick

[@chrisperkins7331]

@@messijr5145 I have lived with a carrier in the suburbs in the UK US and NZ, and respectfully disagree with your opinion. I don't have to deal with pollution, traffic, and the food I eat is not contaminated.. I now have the highest standard of living IMO, although I understand many will not agree with me. At least I have lived in both places so am better placed to understand which is best. I take your point that it is not possible for all to be as lucky as me, but the suburbs as a community living system is showing signs of degradation in many places around the world.

[@woohunter1]

@@messijr5145 haha, imagine thinking living in the suburbs is the better than living in rural areas.

[@fbbWaddell]

The torah commands us to let the land rest once every 7 years to prevent depletion. Once upon a time, the govt paid farmers to plant soybeans to replenish the soil. Then, chemists decided that it would be easier to just put the main nutrients back into the soil. However, fruits and veggies grown today have less nutritional content than they did 50 years ago and it is still decreasing. Bring back the land rest and you won't need to spend millions on fertilizer.

[@STScott-qo4pw]

my mother has no issues with her sense of taste so i thought it really odd her remarks about the greenhouse strawberries from california: she said they have no flavor at all. i tried three of them from the bin and found she was right. they looked okay - big, red - but there was no strawberry taste to them.

[@shizukagozen777]

Then Americans will have to learn to not waste food and stop eating the equivalent of 2 or 3 portions in one meal. Landing on the moon was an easier task if you ask me. 🤭

[@thetruthisthis7736]

the "Torah" you say? "JEW"? lol..YOU dont even know the True meaning.

[@Robert1337_]

@@thetruthisthis7736 are you ok

[@shizukagozen777]

@@Robert1337_ No, he's not. LMAO

[@FinancialShinanigan]

Time to start growing my own food now

[@chiquita683]

Bill Gates and China already bought up the land

[@MINATOYELLOWFLSH2005]

@@mutemaids kitchen garden. In that way, we can put lesser pressure on world soil.

[@xitismail]

@@mutemaids an honest view of 99.99% of people's modern existence.

[@laurent3415]

@@mutemaids Thank you for admitting to being part of the problem.

[@anaroman1499]

@@mutemaids It is work, but it will cost you less money that buying in the stores. Most have pesticides in them as well. I have been growing my own food for years and I see alot of benefits in my health as well.

[@crystalcole888]

It's not just natural inflation, a lot of it is gouging. McDonald's wants $4.50 for a medium fries. Domino's delivery fee is now $5 on top of tip for the driver and taxes and smaller than average pizzas. My response is I stopped eating out at those places. If these companies think they can just raise their price forever without a response from the consumer, they're mistaken. Very few things are true necessities. A lot of this is just corporate greed. Many of these corporations are making record profits. I wish we could all get together and stop buying from the worst offenders for one month. You would see prices drop back down to normal.

[@mythic_snake]

I remember driving through the countryside in Germany back in the late 80s, and the air smelled of cow manure because all the farmlands were using that as fertilizer. Maybe that could be part of the solution?

[@vanderumd11]

You understand.. it carries bacteria. Many recalls are from animal poop on food. The second problem is the cows are not pasture raised so the poop is not great

[@mythic_snake]

@@vanderumd11 aww damn. That's true. Too bad though. I wonder how they were addressing the bacteria issue in Germany.

[@johnnychang4233]

@@mythic_snake They are pumping the livestock full of antibiotics for the same reason.

[@alexandrabelanova2388]

It might be not enough for current economy and extensive agriculture.Also genetically modified/artificially selected crops might require only limited selection of artificial fertilisers such as Monsanto seeds.As result of soil imbalance due to years of aggressive soil use,we probably can’t fully rely on natural sources…

[@johnnychang4233]

@@alexandrabelanova2388 The problem with GMO plants is that they are designed to yield maximum 2 crops planted consecutively, meaning one can only reseed with the daughter seeds one more time before the latest generation lost the feature they proclaim to be superior. Which economically just keep all the farmers going back to Monsanto every other year to buy fresh GMO parent seeds again and again and the price just keep cropping upward.

[@bobbyboii787]

Remember people , growing food isn't as hard as it's made out to be!! You can grow potatos, onions, tomatos, herbs, raspberries, blackberries, apples, lemons, strawberries, blueberries and currants all in a huge abundance with little maintenance!!🍒🍓🍏🍅🥔🥒 Love from the UK 🇬🇧💚

[@rennnnn914]

Not if you don't have a yard to grow them in. A few pots on a balcony isn't going to feed a family.

[@bobbyboii787]

@@rennnnn914 well obviously not and not everyone will be able to grow but theres plenty of people who can.

[@rennnnn914]

@@bobbyboii787 But most people can't, that's the problem.

[@bobbyboii787]

@@rennnnn914 then guerilla grow!! If your going to starve you'll learn to provide food fast😂plant tomatos and potatos in wild fields and go back once in a while to check on them😂

[@vanderumd11]

It is definitely harder than you think to actually grow enough to eat. Realize you are talking about hours and hours of work. Fertilizer and coat for good soil

[@GD15555]

And at the same time people over eat. Food Portions are giant. We need the balance to be restored.

[@wolvesrfun]

Yup. Two meals a day max should be the norm. People eat all the damn time, when many can get by on one or two meals a day.

[@bengagnon2894]

@@wolvesrfun Starving to give the shareholders more money.

[@goozebump]

@@wolvesrfun I've been to poor countries. The people are short and you can tell need more nutrition. I'm average/small in usa but a giant in mexico

[@SebastianQ2003]

Thanos was right

[@GonzoTehGreat]

Don't forget about the HUGE amount of food wasted.

[@pikeconnor186]

Why are prices rising? Too many units of currency created by the centre banks, sometimes called QE or Quantitative Easing (money printing). How to stop rising prices? Set interest rates to a level 2/3 points above inflation rates. Can you handle 10% interest rates?

[@BlushingRoseDiaries]

I wonder if they created public compost programs so that everyone was able to give their food waste away to make natural compost for farmers to pick up. That would really help and would be better for the enviroment

[@josevelasquez5145]

I absolute agree

[@jamesp8459]

Some municipalities do it for common people to pick up and fertilize their gardens with.

[@violetviolet888]

Blushing Rose Diaries: Exactly. We do NOT need synthetic fertilizers. We never did. The only thing it does is create profit for others and problems for the Earth and everything that lives on it. Learn about how soil works. Did you know there are more microbes in a healthy teaspoon of soil than there are people on the planet? They're HUNGRY. They need organic matter, things that came from nature. Don't put in a plastic bag and into a landfill.

[@fuchsia02]

I think it would help a little but I’m also guessing synthetic fertilizer is a lot more potent than just natural fertilizer

[@bt3779]

You are about 6 months or more on discussing this topic, but at least you have finally got here CNBC. You deserve a pat on the head.

[@joeking1019]

These decisions are the business of the farmers who KNOW what they're doing, without interference from unqualified political bell ends

[@mythic_snake]

Okay but letting farmers be the sole deciders is what led to the Dust Bowl in the 30s.

[@joeking1019]

@@mythic_snake So what does unqualified interference from dystopian WEF puppets achieve? most of them wouldn't know ass from elbow in the world we inhabit, is Bill gates qualified to have bought up 40% American farmland? is this dodgy software thief a qualified farmer?

[@bobbymainz1160]

July consumer confidence fell more than expected while expectations for the future sank to a 9-year low. June new homes sales crashed far more than expected, falling for 5 out of the last 6 months, and May's number was revised sharply lower. The economy is clearly in recession.

[@claraclouse9086]

What is your point? You're asking FED to bailout everyone because that is your financial bet, otherwise you lose money and face? Seems like it is, and for everyone who cries about recession it feels they have same incentives.

[@oneiljerry9460]

Why is everyone so afraid to admit it. We are in a recession and had better be prepared for a storm never seen before. Different from previous recessions but with the same results.

[@lawerencemiller9720]

For decades, government policy has been throwing the future under the bus. The day of reckoning is coming. I expect the stock market to crash as much as 80%. Investors will rush out of stocks and into real assets, There's going to be no cash in the banks.... You need a survival plan

[@joesphcu8975]

@@lawerencemiller9720 Inflation is gradually going to become part of us and due to that fact any money you keep in cash or in a low-interest account declines in value each year. Investing is the only way to make your money grow and unless you have an exceptionally high income, investing is the only way most people will ever have enough money to retire.

[@stephaniestella213]

@@joesphcu8975 How can i get started when it comes to investing and passive income?

[@containedhurricane]

The country has a vast amount of fertile land, advanced farming technology and more than enough funds, so it doesn't make sense

[@wolfejar]

You realize that farmers are told to put herbicide, pesticides and tilling the land is turning our soil dirt. I suggest go watching to kiss the ground on Netflix.

[@tiastorie6599]

It’s Agenda 20/30 !!!

[@liberty0758]

Bill Gates alone owns 250,000 acres of American land right now. The largest farmland owner in the US. The same dude that believes the world is "overpopulated" but wants to "save it" with needles. Not to mention he's heavily invested i fake baby formula, fake 3D printed and "plant based" meat and other similar garbage.

[@ericpowell4350]

You may need to do some more research.

[@Feral80sKid]

Dang right, these problems are being MADE.

[@hr2079]

Good analysis. Thank you for sharing

[@paulbouwman229]

All the people saying farmers should move to more regenerative agriculture practices, should realize farmers don’t own a lot of the land they run. Farmers aren’t going to spend time and money on land they might not be farming in five years from now.

[@jafinch78]

That's what I was told if I wanted to ever get into crop farming... plan to start off leasing land and growing until you can afford to buy... if you wanted to buy the land and not lease. From my perspective with my land that is regenerative or natural... that's for self sustaining and not quite yet for any profit. If for profit, will only technically be from the old homesteader perspective of returning enough revenue to pay all the bills and breaking even with potential future growth.

[@alanmay7929]

How about stop wasting food! You’ll be surprised by the amount of food wasted yearly it’s a monumental disaster it’s litteraly a crime to the environment

[@eljangoolak]

then the problem is that farmers don't own the land... that needs to be remidiated

[@vyoufinder]

@@eljangoolak OR that the wrong farmers are using it.

[@christinalynn8143]

Nourish the land. It is still important.

[@steven4315]

I live in an area with a lot of turkey barns. In the past it seemed that turkey manure was spread more towards getting rid of the stuff than getting the best use. This year they seem to be more careful.

[@eitkoml]

There should be a drop on feeding livestock due to a grain shortage. It should be accompanied by temporary subsidies, in this crisis, to increase the amount of available equipment for treating maize by nixtamalization to improve its nutritional and cooking properties. In a time with the price of bread made from wheat rising to outrageous levels around the world, more people should learn about using maize tortillas and tamales.

[@MICHAELKAGAN8]

We need to find a way to solve this PROBLEM!!

[@ninjanerdstudent6937]

Veritasium recently spoke of the invention of fertilizer during World War 2. I love when there are interdisciplinary connections from different KZbin channels.

[@MM-fb9fi]

Bad farming techniques create a demand for fertilizer, see Alan Savory here on yt. Industrial farming is an issue because it destroys the land. Another issue in farming is the average age of the farmers is 70, last stat I have seen. All of the legumes the blonde mentions are nitrogen fixing. This means they fix or leave nitrogen in the soil. In the country where I live they plant soybeans, legumes, and follow it with planting corn which uses the nitrogen left by the legumes. By the way 90% of the corn produced today is gmo. It has been gmoed to produce 6, last I know, different kinds of insecticides. This fed to people and the animals we eat. All of the stats here are seriously understated inflation is much higher. Pot-ash not po-tash. This is typical of people with no hands on farming. I read america throws away 40% of the food we buy.

[@fuchsia02]

Yep we don’t even eat most of the food produced which is kinda ridiculous to me, I just don’t understand why

[@Jan-kw1qr]

exactly this!! Sustainable farming techniques are nothing new, the three sisters method, fish emulsion method etc etc but EVERYTHING has to be profitable business in this country smh

[@phatbaby4234]

Organic and sustainable farming produces far better yields than commercial farming. Actually rotating crops like they used to do makes a huge difference.

[@Davethreshold]

I was raised 200 feet from the I.H.B. railroad tracks in the mid-west. Back in the '60s-'70s they moved Cows with huge box cars. Now and then they would stop right in front of our garden. My Brother Ken would grab a shovel, walk up to an open door, and shovel a bunch of Cow dung (EWW!!) from there, and work it into our garden for next year. He grew the best tasting Tomatoes and Carrots that I ever had in my life!! They have not been equaled since then. IDK if that would be a good idea these days with the chemicals, and hormones that they give cows for their growth.

[@Ccrippie]

Manufacture Fertilize = 2% Emissions Private Jets = 2% Emissions

[@royhurdle1442]

That’s amazing! Love shots like this!!!

[@richardglady3009]

Great video. Thank you.

[@IndigoBellyDance]

I know this answer will not solve the Whole problem. But We All need to b composting our leftover/uneaten food (compost has great nutrients plants need). And either use the compost Or someone who can used the compost. Farmers Need to grow /operate for Soil health (our current model destroys soul health). Everyone who can begin to grow even a tiny bit of their own food. Again, this will not solve the whole problem But it is a few steps in the right direction And will not hurt the problem.

[@GlennNDavis]

A sure sign of the quality of this production is the most impressive quality of the other reader's commentary! IT IS Awesome! Thanks to everyone!

[@janulf5278]

‘One thing the early explorers, squatters, settlers, and selector’s diaries all had in common when describing the land, and landscape of the new world, was the soil: “The consistency of peasy; the waggons would cut through it six and eight inches deep, or more.” ’ ‘The early pioneers, were in fact describing the original carbon rich, organic humus layer, or more correctly: the Mycorrhizal Fungi Mycelium. One hundred and fifty years later, with modern day broad acre cultivation techniques being employed on a never before seen, industrialized scale: that an intact mycelium is a rarity, it amounts to no more than a fraction of one percent of what is currently considered viable arable land’. ‘The ‘tipping point’ due to the advent of Glyphosate in the early 1970’s, resulted in modern farming techniques becoming the dominion of the multinational fertilizer, chemical, and machinery manufacturers’. ‘It is of no fault of the mycelium, that after 150 years of net nutrient removal by way of traditional grazing practices, and a total lack of respite from hoofed animal stock compaction; the bio-dynamically diverse, insulating humus layer, and the native host pastures: have degraded to be but a mere shadow, or facsimile of what they once were. Long gone are the days, where the kangaroo and wallaby grasses: standing higher than the wagon wheels, brushed the saddles of the horses and the legs of their riders as they traversed the land’. ‘Nor is it of any fault of the mycelium, that today’s unimproved native pasture ground (what is left of it) is dominated by a plethora of low fertility native indicators such as spear grass and foreign invasive weeds: they are nothing short of a modern-day agronomist’s wet dream come true’. ‘Given soil organic levels are present and tested in the form of carbons, that in themselves: took from the beginning of time to get to where they are; and cultivation, by nature of its invasiveness: can completely oxidize those same stored carbons in the space of a few short years, the writing is on the wall: “Once the mycelium is lost to cultivation, no amount of cultivation is ever going to get it back”.’ 'Unknown Author' Book One (gumtree): 'Ground Zero and the Children of Kakadu'

[@eitkoml]

One thing to note is that the early squatters, in their westward expansion, did not move on to truly wild land and convert it into farmland through their own labor. They went for land that was previously cultivated by indigenous people. They built their towns on top of the ruins of indigenous villages, depopulated by mass pandemics. They preferred to farm land that had been enriched and softened by indigenous farming practices. They also preferred that the plants that had grown in the absence of indigenous farmers were younger and easier to clear. Think of things like young, softwood trees instead of older, hardwood trees with far tougher roots.

[@grahamt5924]

@@eitkoml yet you rely on how they farm by buying what they produce.

[@leonbenli2024]

@@eitkoml well said, people forget that it is not humanity that is the problem it’s the way we have chosen to live. “There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.” The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'” Daniel Quinn, Ishmael:

[@leonbenli2024]

@@grahamt5924 ​ In other words … Lemme just take your home and land, murder your family, destroy your culture, ravage it until all the soils depleted, and then pump it up with fertilizer to make food and then sell it to you. Now grovel to my feet because I feed you.” ? “There's nothing fundamentally wrong with people. Given a story to enact that puts them in accord with the world, they will live in accord with the world. But given a story to enact that puts them at odds with the world, as yours does, they will live at odds with the world. Given a story to enact in which they are the lords of the world, they will ACT like lords of the world. And, given a story to enact in which the world is a foe to be conquered, they will conquer it like a foe, and one day, inevitably, their foe will lie bleeding to death at their feet, as the world is now.” The premise of the Taker story is 'the world belongs to man'. … The premise of the Leaver story is 'man belongs to the world'” Daniel Quinn, Ishmael:

[@eitkoml]

@@grahamt5924 No I don't. Those people are all dead. Modern farmers are not above criticism. Modern farmers are actually incredibly selfish, entitled, egotistical assholes. They're complete hypocrites too.

[@GlennNDavis]

There needs to be a database of soil deficiency for what crop by county or by area nearby. Mine seems to be short on Mg and SO4 so epsom salt. That might make for great sweet onions (Without the epsom salts bacause the sulfur makes it strongly flavored.) We will find out soon!

[@pamelahomeyer748]

Produce is staying on the Shelf too long and you can count on it not lasting long when you get it home or finding mold inside

[@ekananda9591]

Man, we owe our life from sintetic fertilizer and in turn we owe our life from fossil fuels

[@LeePatekar]

And those pushing "eco" solutions at the expense of fertilizers and fossil fuels are now scrambling to shift the blame elsewhere. You can't fight climate change without nuclear or other dense energy sources. You can't pivot to electric vehicles within a decade without massive waste and problems. You can't phase out fossil fuels before finding ecofriendly and affordable alternatives to fossil fuel derivatives. Too many Gretas pushing for fast disastrous change.

[@albieoval1657]

Soon organic will be cheaper

[@12time12]

Need to learn from volcanic eruptions, the ash emissions cause incredible growth in plants.

[@artcurious807]

We need a massive volcanic eruption to shake things up around the world

[@4qutube234]

ya we use volconic rock dust

[@richardsimms251]

Excellent review. Thank you. RS. Canada

[@jennifertarin4707]

If your crop isn't getting enough nourishment from the soil, you need to rotate your crops to replenish the nutrients in the soil. Fertilizer is NOT needed if you are farming correctly. Rotating crops would be a good start (instead of planting soybeans in the same field for 20 years, rotate with corn or barley or wheat). If we can get away from fertilizer and back to the older ways of farming, we will have a healthier and safer product.

[@nicasia3867]

Exactly, not true that we can't possibly feed the world. Not in the same way as we're doing now but it can absolutely be done... and we can be healthier for it too. But I don't think that's the result we're going to see. I think the human race is on the way out. Jesus may return soon, I hope He does and I hope I'm ready. This world is wicked.

[@Reggaeshark.]

Legumes don’t consume the nitrogen in the air. The provide beneficial bacteria to the soil which then produces the nitrogen in the soil

[@brucewilliams2106]

nitrogen is not produced or destroyed. it is an element.

[@sandeepnaik5612]

Very important point about Soil Management at 7:00. But the problem is much much bigger we need to #SaveSoil to make our food stronger ans us stronger

[@annat6249]

First more realistic step is to eat less. We American eat a lot compare to other countries. Save money on food and also medical bills. Hopefully start with home cook food and portion control.

[@strenngth2024]

It’s because Americans like value items

[@geraldhenderson8474]

Cows stop poopin??

[@threepac]

Nope, big business just won’t buy the non-synthetic stuff. All these manufactured crisis are just Big Business and governments manipulating markets.

[@GD15555]

Yes.

[@journeythroughenlightenmen3426]

They said a key word I hope eveyone paid attention to...synthetic fertilizer. Their focus is on synthetic. When it's easy to make enough natural fertilizer via a local community composting effort.

[@anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180]

Manure, compost, vermiculite. All are better than synthetic. That crap should be illegal anyway

[@thegreataynrand7210]

@@anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180 Ask Sri Lanka how that went.

[@III............]

​@@anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180 ​ Anatomically Correct Muppets ''Anything I don't like should be illegal.''

[@SMPfarm]

@@anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180 you really think a small community can make enough compost for hectares upom hectares of land? Where are they gonna get the material for even 1 hectare?

[@SMPfarm]

Can you explain how theyre gonna get enough bio material for even 10 hectares of land? Lmao

[@devalapar7878]

If the cost of fertilizer doubles, the cost of food goes up only very little. I believe bred would become 20 cents more expensive or something like that.

[@CrackDavidson1]

Harvesting and using the algal blooms as fertilizer tackles two problems at once. The nutrients being bound to biomass makes it slow release and adds the carbon too...

[@zoranmarinovic4379]

Suuuure, and spread out cyanotoxins and other wonderful toxic substances produced in the blooming biomass onto your food. Please research stuff before posting magnificently dumb ideas ...

[@CrackDavidson1]

@@zoranmarinovic4379 There is an obvious distinction between seaweeds, algae and cyanobacteria. Cyanobacteria being the most difficult to harvest anyway. Cyanobacteria can be used as fertilizer as well after processing like composting or anaerobic digestion which will degrade the cyanotoxins. You can obviously process algae, seaweeds and cyanobacteria to different kinds of fertilizer and have the cyanotoxins levels measured. It ain't that difficult bro.

[@MitsurugiYuuhi]

sure, but after the algal blooms run out then what? i mean let say we stop using chemical fertilizer and harvesting the algal blooms, but then that same algal would be run out, after that then what? return to chemical fertilizer again?

[@CrackDavidson1]

@@MitsurugiYuuhi That's kind of so far into the future we don't necessarily have to think of it as a problem at the moment. The thing is that most of the chemical fertilizer we've been using are water soluble compounds that 'run off' with rain water and then come into water into bodies which creates the algal blooms. Most of the algal blooms are in fact this chemical fertilizer reaching the water. Something like 50% of used fertilizer leeches into the water ways, so basically the algae is that 'unused/waste fertilizer'. Because these fertilizers are not bound to carbon and the soil is low in carbon the nutrients leech out into the water ways. If we can increase carbon in the soil we will retain the nutrients in the soil for MUCH Longer. This is what algae basically is. The nutrients are bound to carbon and they will stay much more longer in the soil and will reduce the need for chemical fertilizers. It is a cycle until we close the loop of holding the nutrients in the soil. The more chemical fertilizers we use the more algae there is, so if we would go back to chemical fertilizers we would start to see more algae again. There are other ways of doing this too... Using other waste streams for the nutrients. You can also impregnate biochar with the chemical fertilizers so the nutrients are bound to carbon (biochar). This would also keep the nutrients bound to the soil and decrease the runoff. Using algae is one step, which would take the runoff nutrients back into the soil and clean the water ways. Once we have the nutrients in the soil and can keep them there, fertilization is less of a concern. We can create a closed loop of nutrient recycling. Not just have half of it polluting the waters and creating these algal blooms. I really think 'biochar based fertilizers' are the next step in chemical fertilizer use. But also other waste streams. Keeping the nutrients trapped in the carbon of the biochar. And then recycling the agricultural waste, once the run off problem has been taken care of. Human municipal waste would also be a good source of nutrients for recycling, you could make biochar from the solids directly which we burn off all the synthetic medicines etc. The end goal is to create a closed loop of nutrient recycling.

[@MitsurugiYuuhi]

@@CrackDavidson1 that's too many variable to consider, make it quite a complex system. and in my humble opinion a system that depends on more than 2 variable is very fragile. That being said your theory would do great in a small scale farming, but it would be different thing in a massive scale farming to feed a nation. I mean that algae is thriving because of excess of fertilizer right. so if we stop using fertilizer and using that algae as fertilizer that mean that algae would soon extinct, or the quantity would decreased significantly very fast because we would need a large amount of algae if we want to fertilize a large area of field, there are more research needed on how many algae needed to fertilize a hectare of field. And in changing a fertilizer to organic one also need a thorough research, because not every soil do well in other form of fertilizer, at least that what tragedy in Srilanka thought us. It's not that i didn't agree on using/finding alternative to chemical fertilizer, but it needed more study and research so we didn't repeat the same as Srilankans did.

[@TheEarthMenTV]

After the oil price instability, will the world experience food instability?

[@GlennNDavis]

Hats off to the Director. This is so well documented that I had to stop frame by frame for knowledge to fill in my gaps. You can't do this with live TV!

[@mastermnd22]

Nobody believes this propaganda.

[@juliopatinopacheco9050]

If you can plant vegetables in your house please do it. Exchange vegetables with others, cook them or give them for free as little gestures.

[@nunnenj]

Very interesting.

[@schofield4836]

Regenerative farming is the answer. Soil sustainability, no till, cover crops. Manures, cross species rotational grazing and no factory farming

[@artcurious807]

Factory farming is a huge problem. Tied to the fast food industry it causes the most pollution and is creating a generation of obese Americans who are eating this high calorie low nutrition food. Not to mention the poor treatment of farm animals trapped in cages waiting for slaughter.

[@paladain55]

no its not. The world can only support the amount of people we have right now because of nitrogen fertilizer.

[@distrologic2925]

@@paladain55 We are simply too many people. We want to have our cake and eat it too. Its not sustainable.

[@distrologic2925]

@Fourier21 We will be too many at some point. The more people we become, the more we have to split resources and sacrifice quality of life, and it becomes more and more difficult to not destroy our habitat in the process. Some time this point is going to be reached, because this planet is not infinite. I argue that that point is reached. I don't believe we will manage to keep growing. We are destroying the climate and soon many regions will become uninhabitable, causing mass migration, leaving less and less resources to the individual. We will be stepping on each others toes and conflicts will intensify. Unless we completely cut down our industry today, stop producing heat and gas, we will decimate ourselves.

[@thegreataynrand7210]

@@distrologic2925 Lol, you malthusians have always been wrong.

[@mannyalejo772]

No mention of subsidized corn ethanol production competing with food production and raising food prices. Corn ethanol is supposed to be environmentally friendly but it is inefficient and competes with food production for resources like fertilizer.

[@pinchepelon4594]

Corn ethanol being good for the environment is a lie. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fF7cdX6brsZnibc The corn used for ethanol is field corn which is used in feed so it doesn't really "compete" with food production any more than it already did. Ethanol also releases almost twice as much ghg per unit of energy as gasoline and it is terrible for the longevity of the rubber and plastic components that comprise the fuel systems of most engines.

[@jordanabendroth6458]

Corn that is used for ethanol isn't the same type of corn that is canned or sold by the cob, something like 98% of corn isn't corn that is actually eaten by humans, most is used as feed or animal agriculture or ethanol

[@RobertJamesChinneryH]

great argument for natural products and natural farming...better for environment and your own health

[@MrMcgooOG]

Thanks Joe everything you touch is pure gold

[@skeetersaurus6249]

The CORE of 'fertilizer knowledge' is contained in the simple notation, 'N-P-K', which stands for Nitrogen, Phosphorous and Potassium. In fact, most fertilizer is given in a number ratio using this notation '12-2-2', etc. While Nitrogen is 'ample' on earth, it tends to leach out of soil...so we put it back in. Potassium is RELATIVELY RARE on earth (your body needs over 2-grams of it a day, and even with the most-potassium-rich food item, tomato juice, you only get about 800-mg per 8-ounce glass)...so again, we place this in the soil. Sadly, Phosphorous is a 'good thing/bad thing', too little and plants don't grow, too much and it is poisonous. In the U.S. (and most agricultural regions), Phosphorous is HARD to get back in the soil without intentionally placing it there. The 'old way' was to 'rotate land', grow plants on one plot, raise animals on the other, then every other year, swap them. We don't do that now. To maximize all stupidity, the 'Climate Change' scientists have outdone themselves...they have designed a pig which unlike traditional swine, DOES NOT EXCRETE PHOSPHOROUS! They say 'it is desired, to limit Climate Change'. Well, if you limit Phosphorous, you won't have vegetables...and there is little to no Phosphorous to be had in the soil at the current time (and we no longer rotate land plots for livestock use, to refresh the fertilizers naturally found there). We are intentionally designing ourselves out of food!

[@doctauglyd9861]

Let em know

[@timberwolfe1645]

This is why we need FARMERS!! Without fertilizer. Use the bio diversity to grow cattle with trees and solar panels above foods in the ground. It works!!! And better yields too!!

[@hedydd2]

Another person living in cloud-cuckoo land. Nothing grows under solar panels because the land is starved of sunshine and water. Go to any solar ‘farm’ and you find nothing commercially grown on that land. Get real!

[@grassguy1154]

Like half of all the people alive today wouldn’t even be alive without fertilizer

[@neonspark707]

@@grassguy1154 maybe that's a good thing. Any species that cannot feed all it's population has grown too much

[@grassguy1154]

@@neonspark707 k thanos

[@kazioo2]

Go tell that to Sri Lanka.

[@anthonyrespass3090]

What bothers him the most is these people that talk about farming from the outside of farming they've never farmed they don't understand what it takes to grow a plant or create a food to sustain our population what a shame

[@utmbunderground]

It's not linear like it was described. Energy is used to produce Nitrogen Fertilizer, so increasing prices on Energy will increase the cost of fertilizers; however, the price increases we have seen have more to do with the world's largest supplier by a country mile (Russia) being embargoed. Russia produces a lot of fuel as well; however, their market share of fertilizer is much higher than its market share of fuel production. This created a multiplicative effect on the price of fertilizer when Russia was embargoed.

[@CitiesForTheFuture2030]

Are you serious? Do I REALLY have to mention: - in developed countries 35 - 40 % of all food is wasted from farm to fork, and that all organic waste should be sent to urban centres for COMPOSTING - how did you fail to talk about composting? You also didn't mention permalcuture, silvoculture, regenerative agriculture etc etc etc... - the importance of fungi / mycellium in plant health - the importance of urban agriculture such as community gardens, rooftop farms, indoor farms, green roofs etc - society really also needs to start thinking about moving to a more plant-based diet The vast majority of the cost of food is transport, warehousing, refrigeration. packaging, marketing & advertising, staffing, retail overheads etc. How come farmers live on the brink of bankruptcy while food manufacturers & retails earn billions in profits, not to mention seed & equipment companies? Fertilizer is not a philanthropic industry, it's BIG business. Our for-profit food system is a social justice & human rights issue! If we are going to have an honest conversation about our broken food system, please do so in its entirety! If you only want to discuss a segment of the food chain, that's fine, but make sure it's within the proper context. This is an very complex issue (eg the food-land-energy-water nexus) that needs to be exposed, explored, discussed & sustainable solutions found. The alternative is to stop having kids for a few decades so our global populations can decrease to around 2 - 3 billion people, which will solve most of our problems...

[@beorntwit711]

I think they could have spent a bit more time on Sri Lanka. It is currently being used to cast a pall over organic farm productivity. Yet the president, elected on promise of organic farming in 10 years, decided to make an immediate switch (in year 2), without any sort of preparation of soil by farmers. It sure seems like they just ran out of money for fertilizer and didn't care to learn the complications. Allegedly some organic proponents were also against the ban. Sadly, there's not much information (in English lang reports). This is just a cobbled patch of mentioned context across a bunch of very short articles.

[@SeeWonderHaveLive]

I think you mean conserving resources

[@19nat99]

8.7% over 5 year is less than 2% a year which is exactly the perfect amount targetted for a healty economy

[@austinmanahan5117]

The reason everything is so expensive is because the government and central banks wouldn't stop printing dollars. It is as simple as that. Blame your politicians and central bankers for poor monetary choices.

[@charga90]

Potash - pronounced like Pot as in gardening container, Ash as in the powdery remains of fire. Not Poet-Ash. You don’t use old poets on your garden, it would be even more useless than their verses.

[@LazyboyRecliner]

Nope. Sprinkling some Robert Frost in my garden increases yields dramatically

[@knhcarpentryhomeimprovemen8946]

It was painful hearing her say it over and over again. Haha

[@SwingAndAMiss.]

I've always heard it as how she pronounces it. I'm from Oklahoma, for reference, so it's probably just a regional dialect thing

[@Tricky-Dick]

@@SwingAndAMiss. dialect as in not bothering to learn how to pronounce words properly?

[@Georgeqaws]

This is how far away the general population is from farming. They don't even know how to pronounce the words.

[@kraisydave]

Thank you for this video. Exactly on point for where I'm at. Just broke the wall down 6 weeks ago. Down 26 pounds with full nutritional appropriate diet.

[@analienfromouterspace]

I do seasonal gardening, I planet cucumber, zucchini, and tomato. it cost me about 80 bucks for seeds, fertilizer. I get a yield for 2 months but where I live, it is only start yielding 2 months out of 4 months.

[@rinowx5]

The senile and played out politicians need to go asap.

[@stojan7382]

Informative video which demonstrates that Nations are reliant upon each other for essential resources. As demonstrated by the Russia Ukraine war, nations are becoming more dependent upon on another, as stated by a relevation called "Interdependence"" written by Marshall Vian Summers - "It is true today that there are many nations that are not self-sufficient in the production of food, in the availability of water and in the manufacture of essential goods. So trade between nations and interdependence between nations is a reality and cannot be undone."

[@niweshlekhak9646]

Blame Cl#nt#n for that, he started globalization, Bush amplified it, Ob#m# took it to the next level, Orange man warned us about it but current one undid US independence right after he took office, shut down a baby formula plant in USA and many oil rigs.

[@johnchapman5125]

Thanks for sharing this!

[@MEM88844]

Keep in mind 40% of food is wasted. We're approaching the food crisis from the wrong direction.

[@anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180]

Yep

[@xionglin2009]

Kinda make sense why china is imposing anti waste law a couple years ago

[@mikewhocheeseharry5292]

The inedible parts?

[@Parker307]

Yup. It's wasted at the farm, wasted in transport, wasted at the store, and finally wasted at the home.

[@hushpuppykl]

Cut back on consumption. Stop wastage. Stop eating for the heck of feeding want. No one wants to do that.

[@amierullridzwan2025]

Easy said than done

[@dincoox1915]

Thanks Joe

[@southsidesky]

In almost every industry, the mergers that we have allowed to take place, have hurt consumers because they remove competition. Capitalism does not work in these markets and we are paying the price in so many ways, because of lack of competition.

[@donTeo136]

There is a product ozmacote which a slow release . Used for house plants mainly. Golf courses. It is too expensive for scaled agg. Almost all commercial fertalizer are fast release so we loose a large per cent in run off.

[@jerryrichardson2799]

An outstanding report, thank you. Peter Zeihan has been talking about this for months on KZbin.

[@samivayajd]

what I DON'T understand is why the INDUSTRY won't simply pivot and look at the ALLOCATION of goods and where they are WASTED the most VS where they are NEEDED the most. Work with grocers to eliminate food waste of edible produce. No doubt we have been used to a certain level of production, but people overall need to start learning how to waste as little as possible, this includes businesses and large scale consumers like schools, cruises, etc.

[@yudistiraliem135]

Americans and Europeans in general needs to eat more fermented soybean. That’s how countries that used to be poor used to eat in lieu of msg and meat. In SEA they have tempeh, in japan they have NATO, they are also used extensively in China and Korea. Unfermented soy beans are not as healthy and could be detrimental to thyroid health.

[@greapper1]

Im not a farmer, but I do have 15 raised garden beds for my own personal consumption. I save all organic kitchen scraps in a large composter, add hay from my pet rabbits, and grass & leaves from my lawn.. fill my beds yearly with home made fertilizer and the yields i get from my garden beds is pretty awesome. I don't think organic farming is sustainable on farms because the amount of decayed matter would be astronomical.. and americans are horrible about actually separating food scraps. Recycling is an entire other issue, but daily kitchen scraps from vegetables and fruits is pretty easy to just have a jar on your counter and empty once a week into a composter..

[@justinhansen1328]

Only 4 companies made up 75% of production and distribution. Time for some monopoly busting

[@justinhansen1328]

Or oligopoly busting your choice

[@tkidd250]

I wonder if their is a way to recycle coffee grounds into fertilizer because I can't imagine the coffee consumption around the world

[@LazyboyRecliner]

It can be composted with a lot of kitchen waste which is a form of fertilizer

[@tkidd250]

@@LazyboyRecliner Would need to figure out how to scale this

[@SMPfarm]

Wont work, when growing coffee, when the berries drop to the ground caffiene is released into the soil which inhibits the growth of other plants that are'nt coffee

[@MrWaterbugdesign]

If this was materially true we'd see meat up 2-3x more than vegetables because meat requires 2.5 lbs of grain to produce 1 lb of beef. But beef and vegetables are up about the same. Fertilizer cost is important to farmers as they're on thin margins. But with food middle men and massive food waste the cost of fertilizer is barely a factor.

[@crumb9cheese]

Farmers cost have gone insanely high. Fertilizer has tripled in price. Material prices insane. Fuel ha ya

[@katme8055]

Greed is killing us

[@animaldarezntalkz]

In Other Words...... I guess We're Not Conspiracy Theorists Anymore 💯

[@tenacious_takakumi2680]

I wanna ask these questions and get the answers from all the internet folks: Can and should US get independent on domestic manufacturing/food industry/basically anything, I.e. can US be a almost 0 import country? With the strengthening of domestic chip market, oil pumping and possibly manufacturing of fertalizers, is it possible that US can become immune to global shortages, given enough time and money?

[@laurent3415]

Only if our general population got less lazy and less greedy so, no, the U.S. cannot do that any time soon.

[@chickmagnetwampaone]

Absolutely, the US can do whatever we truly wish to accomplish. The problem we face is that they don't want us completely independent from one another pertaining to the world stage. That's why when a "crisis" happens in another nation the US and NATO have all the excuse they need to intervene with whatever is needed. Whether that's money or soldiers and such.

[@Blackcricket100]

Didn't work that well with the baby formula fiasco. Importing helps with keeping prices at a reasonable level. "0 import country" is a good thought process for disaster management planning but we also shouldn't over react to once in a generation crisis moments either. I think the import/export thing will always be a moving target.

[@laurent3415]

Another issue I see with going zero-import is considering how prices will change when everything costs an American wage. Every time a customer complains about a garment made in Taiwan or China, I offer them the American-made one as well. They always end up choosing the Taiwan or China item because it's significantly less expensive.

[@cabellones]

and there are materials that are hard to find in US, or had a limited stock, or even (as teh case of rare earth) the cost of extraction are to much for the society. Also, there is tre cost and inflation spiral, produce in US is average more expensive, increasing the production will make more expensive (like labours problems, the Brexit is a example of what can happen when there is to much jobs vacancies and to much competition for labour.) if the production gets more expensive, the cost is passed on the price, the price put pressure for raising wages, the wages make more expensive to produce, and so on and on....

[@pikminscool]

Time to learn composting, which is throwing plant material in a pile and turn it every few days until it becomes dirt.

[@capitalgains4194]

Meanwhile 99% of the people in the comment section cant and dont even know how to dig a hole 🕳 to plant a seed

[@caleballemond3856]

If worms were abundant in the soil, you wouldn’t need fertilizer.

[@adayexpired6370]

Eh, worms need food too, they can’t subsist on quartz. They eat organic matter and help to break it down into more readily available nutrients for the plants and that’s why they have a good reputation. But in the end, put some worms into nutrient less soil and see how long they survive. They won’t. Worm growers feed worms food! Usually trash, papers(which are organic and have enough energy, ie. burn paper, you can’t get fire, but you’re talking something analogous to burning ash. Ash can’t be burned, no energy), food scraps etc. The fact that 5 people as of this writing upvoted you, is what’s disturbing. When food wastes decompose, they take up nitrogen during the process, and only produce net more nitrogen after decomposition, and worms just help speed up that process and also help in aerating the soil, but, worms need energy themselves OBVIOUSLY to keep wiggling and living. How are they supposed to live in lifeless soil in the first place?

[@28ebdh3udnav]

Don't worry, that inflation reduction act will surely help

[@linny7958]

The perfect comment.

[@exaucemayunga22]

Great

[@GovernmentMatters]

Interesting

[@zisun7483]

Inflation on food prica Economic financialSanctions on Russia is the cause of the current economic problems

[@monanoorchaalida4568]

oooo

[@danyala.1659]

We need vertical farms.

[@DarkPesco]

Hydroponics/aeroponics. Much larger production on a fraction of the inputs of fertilizer AND water!

[@lazarusblackwell6988]

I havent been in the shopping mall since i got fired from my last job.

[@terranceali9787]

There’s no crisis They just raising prices Just cause How does fertilizer go up There just deciding to raise prices Energy prices go up because of what

[@anatomicallycorrectmuppets8180]

100000000%

[@Pointlessparodys]

That is not how economics work

[@MrBoliao98]

All I hear from this is that my vegetable prices are going up.

[@FGOKURULES]

And That Thanos Was On To Something?

[@skullandbones1832]

Hunting for your own food or fishing. Saves time and money. I should know because my hometown Sidney Nebraska had Cabela's. It's way easier and cheaper to hunt and fish than going to the grocery store every week to buy food.

[@oscar7032]

If you can, Always try to buy pasture raised pasture finished. It really helps the planet

[@elizabethclaiborne6461]

Where’s the reporting on the middlemen doing the profiteering at the expense of farmers and shoppers? There’s no fertilizer shortage, only price hikes. Is that inflation? Or profiteering?

[@samzhang486]

Well observed! WEF agenda to make ppl depend one key God like dictator. He is CS. Can I guess who is CS?

[@That.Lady.withtheYarn]

Profiteering. They've been scamming people day one of the pandemic and using every excuse to keep doing it