shortages? thoughts?

[Chic Rustler]

Another one bites the dust. 97 and counting.

While the fire seems insignificant, it's part of a much larger issue of a spate of "accidental fires," one by one, taking out America's food supply chain over the past year.
Here's a list of 97 so far:

1/11/21 A fire that destroyed a 75,000-square-foot processing plant in Fayetteville
4/30/21 A fire ignited inside the Smithfield Foods pork processing plant in Monmouth, IL
7/25/21 Three-alarm fire at Kellogg plant in Memphis, 170 emergency personnel responded to the call
7/30/21 Firefighters on Friday battled a large fire at Tyson's River Valley Ingredients plant in Hanceville, Alabama
8/23/21 Fire crews were called to the Patak Meat Production company on Ewing Road in Austell
9/13/21 A fire at the JBS beef plant in Grand Island, Neb., on Sunday night forced a halt to slaughter and fabrication lines
10/13/21 A five-alarm fire ripped through the Darigold butter production plant in Caldwell, ID
11/15/21 A woman is in custody following a fire at the Garrard County Food Pantry
11/29/21 A fire broke out around 5:30 p.m. at the Maid-Rite Steak Company meat processing plant
12/13/21 West Side food processing plant in San Antonio left with smoke damage after a fire
1/7/22 Damage to a poultry processing plant on Hamilton's Mountain following an overnight fire
1/13/22 Firefighters worked for 12 hours to put a fire out at the Cargill-Nutrena plant in Lecompte, LA
1/31/22 a fertilizer plant with 600 tons of ammonium nitrate inside caught on fire on Cherry Street in Winston-Salem
2/3/22 A massive fire swept through Wisconsin River Meats in Mauston
2/3/22 At least 130 cows were killed in a fire at Percy Farm in Stowe
2/15/22 Bonanza Meat Company goes up in flames in El Paso, Texas
2/15/22 Nearly a week after the fire destroyed most of the Shearer's Foods plant in Hermiston
2/16/22 A fire had broken at US largest soybean processing and biodiesel plant in Claypool, Indiana
2/18/22 An early morning fire tore through the milk parlor at Bess View Farm
2/19/22 Three people were injured, and one was hospitalized, after an ammonia leak at Lincoln Premium Poultry in Fremont
2/22/22 The Shearer's Foods plant in Hermiston caught fire after a propane boiler exploded
2/28/22 A smoldering pile of sulfur quickly became a raging chemical fire at Nutrien Ag Solutions
2/28/22 A man was hurt after a fire broke out at the Shadow Brook Farm and Dutch Girl Creamery
3/4/22 294,800 chickens destroyed at farm in Stoddard, Missouri
3/4/22 644,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland
3/8/22 243,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in New Castle, Delaware
3/10/22 663,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, MD
3/10/22 915,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Taylor, IA
3/14/22 The blaze at 244 Meadow Drive was discovered shortly after 5 p.m. by farm owner Wayne Hoover
3/14/22 2,750,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Jefferson, Wisconsin
3/16/22 A fire at a Walmart warehouse distribution center has cast a large plume of smoke visible throughout Indianapolis.
3/16/22 Nestle Food Plant extensively damaged in fire and new production destroyed Jonesboro, Arkansas
3/17/22 5,347,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Buena Vista, Iowa
3/17/22 147,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Kent, Delaware
3/18/22 315,400 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Cecil, Maryland
3/22/22 172,000 Turkeys destroyed on farms in South Dakota
3/22/22 570,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska
3/24/22 Fire fighters from numerous towns are battling a major fire at the McCrum potato processing facility in Belfast.
3/24/22 418,500 chickens destroyed at farm in Butler, Nebraska
3/25/22 250,300 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Franklin, Iowa
3/26/22 311,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
3/27/22 126,300 Turkeys destroyed in South Dakota
3/28/22 1,460,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Guthrie, Iowa
3/29/22 A massive fire burned 40,000 pounds of food meant to feed people in a food desert near Maricopa
3/31/22 A structure fire caused significant damage to a large portion of key fresh onion packing facilities in south Texas
3/31/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Osceola, Iowa
3/31/22 5,011,700 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Osceola, Iowa
4/6/22 281,600 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina
4/9/22 76,400 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
4/9/22 208,900 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
4/12/22 89,700 chickens destroyed at farm in Wayne, North Carolina
4/12/22 1,746,900 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Dixon, Nebraska
4/12/22 259,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Minnesota
4/13/22 fire destroys East Conway Beef & Pork Meat Market in Conway, New Hampshire
4/13/22 Plane crashes into Gem State Processing, Idaho potato and food processing plant
4/13/22 77,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
4/14/22 Taylor Farms Food Processing plant burns down Salinas, California.
4/14/22 99,600 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
4/15/22 1,380,500 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Lancaster, Minnesota
4/19/22 Azure Standard nation's premier independent distributor of organic and healthy food, was destroyed by fire in Dufur, Oregon
4/19/22 339,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
4/19/22 58,000 chickens destroyed at farm in Montrose, Color
4/20/22 2,000,000 chickens destroyed at egg farm in Minnesota
4/21/22 A small plane crashed in the lot of a General Mills plant in Georgia
4/22/22 197,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
4/23/22 200,000 Turkeys destroyed in Minnesota
4/25/22 1,501,200 chickens destroyed at egg farm Cache, Utah
4/26/22 307,400 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania
4/27/22 2,118,000 chickens destroyed at farm Knox, Nebraska
4/28/22 Egg-laying facility in Iowa kills 5.3 million chickens, fires 200-plus workers
4/28/22 Allen Harim Foods processing plant killed nearly 2M chickens in Delaware
4/2822 110,700 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
4/29/22 1,366,200 chickens destroyed at farm Weld Colorado
4/30/22 13,800 chickens destroyed at farm Sequoia Oklahoma
5/3/22 58,000 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Beadle S Dakota
5/3/22 114,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
5/3/22 118,900 Turkeys destroyed Lyon Minnesota
5/7/22 20,100 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
5/10/22 72,300 chickens destroyed at farm Lancaster Pennsylvania
5/10/22 61,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
5/10/22 35,100 Turkeys destroyed Muskegon, Michigan
5/13/22 10,500 Turkeys destroyed Barron Wisconsin
5/14/22 83,400 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
5/17/22 79,00 chickens destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
5/18/22 7,200 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
5/19/22 Train carrying limestone derailed Jensen Beach FL
5/21/22 57,000 Turkeys destroyed on farm in Dakota Minnesota
5/23/22 4,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
5/29/22 A Saturday night fire destroyed a poultry building at Forsman Farms
5/31/22 3,000,000 chickens destroyed by fire at Forsman facility in Stockholm Township, Minnesota
6/2/22 30,000 ducks destroyed at Duck farm Berks Pennsylvania
6/7/22 A fire occurred Tuesday evening at the JBS meat packing plant in Green Bay.
6/8/22 Firefighters from Tangipahoa Fire District 1 respond to a fire at the Purina Feed Mill in Arcola
6/9/22 Irrigation water was canceled in California (the #1 producer of food in the US) and storage water flushed directly out to the delta.
6/12/22 Largest Pork Company in the US Shuts Down California Plant Due to High Costs
6/13/22 Fire Breaks Out at a Food Processing Plant West of Waupaca County in Wisconsin.

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[Mini Horses]

im gonna keep doing what we do. keep practicing self reliance, keep my family safe, fed, and healthy. i guess thats all we can do.

Same here

 

[Chic Rustler]

Well there is your issue. Transplants from California. They have been raising housing costs up here for ages. I remember back in the 80s-90s and California transplants causing the same issues in Portland Oregon.

That's an issue where ever they go. Even to some foreign countries. Singapore was just in the news about it a few weeks ago. Mexico has the same issues. Rich yuppies willing to pay lots drive out the people who have been living there by making it unaffordable. Then they want to change all the laws to favor them.

right. i mean i dont hold it against them. most of the ones ive spoken to call it commiefornia because of all the green regulations and taxes that ended up making it unlivable for the average person. alot of them are just regular people trying to make a living, but we are suffering for it. i really hope they dont bring the same mentalities to the voter booths and make Texas progressive....but thats probably gonna happen.


then on top of that we have a power grid thats struggling to keep up AND they built thousands of new houses this year to hook to the same grid. its all about revenue i guess. "dont worry about the mule, just load the cart so we can get paid"



maybe alot of these separate issues (food shortages, mass death of livestock, fuel prices, food prices, inflation, housing market, building material prices, local taxes, stock markets, interest rates, etc) are unrelated but it seems like they are compounding on each other and the average people are getting the shaft. its gonna be much worse than 08


i may be all doom and gloom but i dont see things getting any better any time soon and im starting to question if its all by accident or if some of it is by design.


im gonna keep doing what we do. keep practicing self reliance, keep my family safe, fed, and healthy. i guess thats all we can do.

 

[Mini Horses]

Ok guys....some analyists have decided there are five items/catagories that have the greatest percentage of increase and that MAY outprice many, if not become in shorter supply. 🙄

Many on here have these covered on their own farm....but here's the PSA for ya. Uh. Don't be drinking coffee as you read...😂

1. Eggs
2. Dairy
3. Beef
4. Chicken
5. Oils

Personally, I've been giving away eggs for months. Extra chickens, well, yum.
I milk...so milk, cheeses, butter covered. Beef, I have a SS source to buy...Thanks! Oils I'm good...lots here as I make goat milk soap to use.

Barter. 😁👍. OBVIOUSLY these know it all's haven't been to a feed store. Now there's some increases to shout about!!😠😢

 

[FarmerJamie]

WallyWorld was stocked okay last night. Didn't see empty shelves except for canning jars

But.... had a case each of the 1/4 pints and 1/2 pint wide mouths. So my "no more jars" stance lasted two weeks

 

[Mini Horses]

Aren't some of the bird farms due to "bird flu" and euthanization?

I think it's tragic for any and all. I also feel many of the fires are suspicious. Insurance? Poor or lack of maintenance caused a couple, expense cut back efforts.

Beyond that -- we've all been saying "raise your own food". Those who can and do will be glad they did in next few years! It ain't over yet. This country is in a bad place in many ways.

 

[Chic Rustler]

Fear and insecurity change how people think and act. If someone believes there is danger, their brain will hold onto
Info that confirms it and "forget" any contradictory information. Great survival tactic for cavemen, but causes all kinds of problems in developed nations.

An amount of caution is beneficial, such as motivating people to be self sufficient. But too much fear or insecurity makes the wheels fall off the cognitive bus. Fact checking is a good way to cope. Mindfulness and taking regular breaks from media too.

where would one fact check that wasnt biased?


in my real life, everyone who told me to fact check something lately was repeating rhetoric they heard from the news about the need for covid vaccines and masks.

i rarely wore a mask and never had a shot, ive had covid 3 times with heart disease and im still here. the fact checkers were saying otherwise.


my point is ive gotten to the point that i really dont believe much of anything unless is seems to be terrible news. lol


what i can say for sure is gas is $4, lunch meat for sandwiches is $7, bacon is $10, hamburger is $8, feed has doubled, my taxes have doubled, and now we are having serious power grid issues....not to mention our leaders are trying to take our rights away a little at a time and theres nothing stopping them.



i feel like stuff is about to come to a head. idk what kind of head but nonetheless we are going to dark places.

 

[wyoDreamer]

My problem around here is the Industrial Ag taking over.
The small dairy farmer is being shut down because the dairies don't want to deal with their smaller production amounts. Same with beef cattle. Those "Family Farms" that hire workers for shift work and have 1000+ head of cattle locked up in a barn 24/7/365 are Industrial Ag and cause so much environmental issues. How is such concentrated livestock operation even healthy? I must admit that they do work hard to keep the cows healthy but is that really a good thing? How many resources go into keeping them healthy that having them out on green grass and sunshine couldn't cure? The electric bills alone must be staggering - much less the amount of diesel used to run the tractors.
I like the beef I get from my local grocery store. I talked to the butcher, and they get their meat from a "local" processor who purchases from local farmers. Local here meaning within 100 miles at most. Most of the beef is raised on pasture and only on a feedlot for a short while if at all. They are trucked from farm to processor and spend minimal time in the kill pen. Is it a perfect solution, no. But I am not in a position to have a small herd and raise my own milk and beef at this time. Will that time come, probably not.

 

[farmerjan]

I just cut the squash in half and let the chickens pick it out. They will get harder rinds for awhile and then feed any that start to get soft/rotten spots. They eat what they want,,, scratch the rest into oblivion.
TSC feed is higher cost and I don't like the quality near as much as Rural King. I buy most all mine from a local feed mill anyway... Fresh and supporting a local company.
Be careful of feeding chunks to cattle... they can get it stuck in their mouths/windpipe. I don't like to feed much garden produce to cattle unless it is something they would eat out in the field... grasses/hay/corn stalks etc.

 

[Hinotori]

We are still having bird flu cases here.

I dont buy eggs. Ravens must be getting expensive bribes if eggs have gone up. It's worth it to chase off the hawks. We've had a juvenile bald eagle hanging around lately as well they chase. His chirping gives him away.