But according to the California Rice Commission, of the 500,000 acres normally produced, only 250,000 will be harvested this year.
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It's not just rice in California, there were bad harvests of other crops everywhere. We have yet to see the worst of shortages and high prices.
anyone not stockpiling food at this point is going to have a hard time this winter/next year
ReplyDeleteI figured this out last year with prices going up the way they have. 8% my ass !
good bacon is double what it was. canned chicken is up by 30 % or more.
what used to be 200 buck shopping trip is now over 300 for the same stuff.
have close to 100 pounds of rice stashed away and thinking of getting more.
forget mountain house for now, get canned goods if you have the room to store them.
try to make it past the next 2 years. and get a couple of good water filters while you at it
I just now got back from the canned goods store where I bought 8 cases of vegetables and 2 cases of canned meats and it ran me $231, about twice the price from last year, and they weren't even name brands for the most part.
Deletewhere or rather what is a canned goods store ? if you don't mind me asking ?
Deleteused to shop at a supply store for shops back in philly, but haven't found anything like
that near Altoona, pa. just a few good local markets but,,
Indeed! For the first time in around thirty years I overdrew my checking account! Oh, the money was there, but all in savings. I have a usual amount that I move to checking to cover expenses. What happened? My wife did a second grocery run one week. Used to be, she'd spend $150-200.00 at the store. It's more like $400-500.00 per trip now. That's what did it. Oh, but Traitor Joe says we're at 0% inflation!!! Thanks again, Joe! YOU did this!
DeleteProbably double that next year if you can even get it.
DeleteJohn Williams at shadowstats calculates inflation based on the old method. The new method was devised to rip of SS pensioners. Anyway it's running at twice the rate as the gov't say's (actual 18% or 19%). Of course the gov't wouldn't lie to us would they? I bought myself a very good air rifle .22 cal and crossbow to do some stealth hunting. -sammy
DeleteAnon@1:04 - it's just a generic name for a store that sells off brand canned goods and groceries at much lower prices than a regular store. The one we have here in town is Save-a-Lot.
DeleteSome folks won't shop there because it's not name brand stuff, but there's nothing wrong with it. The flavor may be a little bland with some of the stuff, but it's nothing that some salt and pepper won't cure.
I find one. thanks
DeleteI love me some Save a lot. We always stocked up there for camping & hunting trips. Wish I had one closer. Hour drive each way but it was on the way to our hunting grounds
DeleteWho needs rice when you have crickets, weevils, mealworms and grasshoppers?
ReplyDelete20 pound bags of rice are cheap
ReplyDeletevacuum sealers and bags are cheap
it is not too late to start
I was told about the rice situation by a ham radio buddy about six months ago. The rice farmers weren't going to get the water they needed, so they couldn't flood their paddies. I stocked up right away. If you're thinking that China and the rest of Asia won't outbid Americans for the available rice, you're deluding yourself! STOCK.UP.NOW! Remember; brown and wild rice will not last as long as white rice due to its oil content!
ReplyDeleteIf you're looking at getting through hard times, look at people in places where hard times start when they're born and end when they die. Rice and beans. Those are the staples. LEARN from these people! Rice and beans, kept correctly, will be edible for many years. We keep around 200lbs each of rice and beans on hand at all times.
One caveat; beans will get VERY dry and will be VERY hard to cook unless you use a pressure cooker. For pre-TEOTWAWKI cooking, as in "the power is still on," I recommend the Instant Pot! These things will cook rice and beans in a FRACTION of the time of conventional cooking! The bonus here is that it will also cook time-hardened beans just fine, also in a fraction of the time it would take to cook FRESH beans! When the utilities go out, be ready with an old school stovetop pressure cooker. Otherwise you're using a lot of fuel to unlock the nutrition in the beans and rice!
How do you store your beans?
DeleteThe monsoons in Asia washed away about half of their rice crop in some places.
ReplyDeleteIndia announced theyare retristicting rice exports to 50% of normal and adding a 20% tax on what is allowed to be exported.
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Glad I have about 40+ pounds of rice alone stashed back...vac sealed in one pound bags each.
ReplyDeleteBeans...got tons of them too, various types. Just soak them overnight to prepare them for cooking the next day.
Sam's Club still has 50# rice for under $20, but 50# of pinto beans is now $40. This is over twice I paid 10 years ago when I stocked up and stored them in mylar bags with oxygen absorbers.
ReplyDeleteI wrote a report in 1992 for my MBA dissertation “the rice price and there’s no drought about it” speaking to the legacy farm programs that supported rice production during the drought in California. Water was given free to farmers subsidizing the price of rice.. to the point cheap US rice was not allowed to be sold on the world market. My conclusions was that rice at the wholesale level should account at least for the cost of water bringing the price closer to the rest of the world. I was not popular with the rice growers association.. obviously protective of their handout. That is about to change.
ReplyDeletebe aware that while there are some crop failures its not on as large a scale as reported daily. its being hyped up to generate fear in the sheeple and justify the future actions of the regime. they are trying to get people to register their gardens and small farms so they can later come take the food with the excuse that it must shared. food is the commies favorite weapon. they will take your food to feed the roaches in the cities and tell you that you have to evacuate closer to the new distribution center. then, get in the boxcar.
ReplyDeleteLast December an article in Nikkei Asia detailed how China had bought up over half of the world's supply of maize, wheat, oats and other grains. They even built a huge network of silos to store it all in. That's enough to feed the entire population of China for 2 years even if no other food is available.
ReplyDeleteAlmost as though they knew..
Here's the link.
ReplyDeletehttps://asia.nikkei.com/Spotlight/Datawatch/China-hoards-over-half-the-world-s-grain-pushing-up-global-prices