Food Shortage and Seed shortage

Food Shortage: In our last post we presented an article entitled “Government cover-up of food production shortage feared …” from World Net Daily and now we’re looking at a moneynews.com post by Dan Weil (1/18/2010) saying “Rogers: Food Shortage Coming as Farmers Struggle“. The reason we’re posting excerpts from the Dan Weil article that comes to the same conclusion -food shortages- as our earlier post is that international investor Jim Rogers comes to his conclusion from a much broader (world) and different perspective: the financial one. Here are a few highlights:

• “Legendary investor Jim Rogers remains bullish on commodities and says the world will soon face food shortages.”
• “The inventories are now at the lowest they’ve been in decades, not in years.
• And that trend is just intensifying Rogers tells CNBC.
• “Things are getting worse. Many farmers can’t get loans to buy fertilizer now, even though we have big shortages developing.”
• And what will be the end result of this dynamic?
• “Sometime in the next few years we’re going to have very serious shortages of food everywhere in the world, and prices are going to go through the roof,” Rogers said.

Credit: lollyknit

Seed Shortage: PrudentHome is presenting information from this hometownannapolis.com article from             1/16/10 by Susan Reimer entitled “Seed shortage may come in 2010” because  we’ve been advocating that the prudent, prepared/preparing family have a MINIMUM of two gardens worth of garden seed on hand for their home garden: one to plant and one to save for “situations”. Here’s some of the “Why”:

• “Will there be a shortage of vegetable seeds for gardeners in 2010?
• It is possible, says Barbara Melera, owner of the oldest seed house in the country, D. Landren Seeds, formerly of Baltimore and noe of New Freedom, Pa.”
• “ … she said, “In 2009, we had the worst growing season in 60 years.” Rain and disease destroyed crops and with them, the seeds for next years garden.”
• “We are being told that many, many varieties simply won’t be available.”
• “Word of possible shortages must be leaking out, Melera said, because retailers are telling her that they had their best December in years.”

PrudentHome Comment: In our last post, we advocated that the prudent family expand their food storage program and their garden seed reserve (to two years worth of garden seeds MINIMUM).
We again advocate these expansions but add an ASAP. It looks to us as though things are very uncertain and that that uncertainty is growing. Oh, and keep your awareness level high to give yourselves as much lead time as possible for situation changes in areas such as food and seed availability.

Until next time; keep your eyes on the horizon as the weathers changing fast.