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Thursday, December 02, 2021

Fertilizer Shortage Could Impact Crop Yields over the Next Year

Experts are warning that the dual energy and supply chain crises could serve to significantly disrupt global crop production, potentially disrupting food supplies for poorer consumers in particular. 

Those ongoing crises are helping to temporarily decrease the global supply of fertilizer, a critical component in much of world agriculture and one that allows farmers to grow considerable quantities of crops in much of the world’s soils.
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15 comments:

  1. J WestDecember 2, 2021 at 11:32 AM

    Shouldn't be a big problem. There's enough horseshit coming from Washington to turn the Gobi Desert green.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 2, 2021 at 11:44 AM

    Any chance you can dig up and repost the Foodgrower series? Maybe he kept copies? Might be helpful.
    Ordered bulk seeds this AM.

    WiscoDave

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    1. wirecutterDecember 2, 2021 at 11:54 AM

      I didn't get a chance to save anything from that series before WP fucked up my old site.

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    2. end essDecember 2, 2021 at 12:35 PM

      And that right there boys and girls, is why I always buy books, not the lectric kind, but the old school paper kind, cause once I have em I got the info in em and don't hafta rely on some dipshit f**kin up my electronic versions. And ewe thought I was crazy for not embracing technology. OK so I am crazy, Lookit who's got the info now!

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    3. AnonymousDecember 2, 2021 at 1:57 PM

      I still lurk...

      I don't have any of the discussion and topics brought up in the comments but I believe I still have copies of the original articles.

      If wirecutter wants, and there is enough interest, I could be motivated to compile them into a pdf and send them off to him again.

      let me know
      later
      foodgrower

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    4. wirecutterDecember 2, 2021 at 2:01 PM

      Sure, send it along when you have time.

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    5. AnonymousDecember 2, 2021 at 2:48 PM

      Any tips as to where the best places to purchase bulk seeds ?

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    6. MtnmanDecember 2, 2021 at 3:11 PM

      I buy from Seed Savers Exchange. They only sell non GMO heirloom seeds.

      seedsavers.org

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    7. RickDecember 2, 2021 at 6:03 PM

      I am sure there is enough interest.

      Eton Rapids Joe has a lot of good information too.

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  3. GunnyFrankDecember 2, 2021 at 7:31 PM

    Baker Creek sells heirloom seeds. Some you may purchase in bulk. Where I get mine from.

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  4. AnonymousDecember 2, 2021 at 8:42 PM

    I've been getting seeds from Baker Creek Heirloom seeds for decades. Heirloom seeds from around the world.
    https://www.rareseeds.com/

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  5. AnonymousDecember 2, 2021 at 10:07 PM

    books about doing and building stuff and things are always good to have. I have at least 500 or so books on damn near everything. kind of a good thing these days as I getting a it long in the tooth as they say. back when I was working for the VA, I used to download and print off tons of good and hard to find info. spent a small fortune in plastic page covers and binders !
    funny thing, when I retired and had to check out thru the IT dept. the guy who check me out
    was checking and reading the stuff that I was reading and printing. he told me that he printed off a lot of what I did. I think I have over 20 binders of stuff I printed off back then.

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  6. Fa Cube ItchesDecember 3, 2021 at 1:27 AM

    Enh, so a few million peasants starve. How is that a bad thing?
    - The Elites

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  7. Bright EyesDecember 3, 2021 at 4:15 AM

    Thanks for the Baker Creek info. I just moved back to the mainland and with all my travel lost my stock of heirloom seeds. Time to replenish the supply. Oh, I've got plenty of cow shit in the field. I go out and scoop it up and throw it on my compost pile. Every couple months I turn the pile with the front bucket. She's working and steaming in the mornings.

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  8. AnonymousDecember 3, 2021 at 8:53 AM

    That steaming pile will help keep the frost off your plants, too. I mounded manure/mulch around all my trees & shrubs before covering them
    Last winter did its damnedest to kill everything off, butt 99% came back.
    Only complete loss was an old Peach tree.

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