The rest of the article states that it is the British Farmers who are raising the alarm bells. Certainly they know of what they speak in this area.
As everyone knows, when the shelves are getting empty, it is far too late to fix the growing of food for that season.
So true! Plus, with countries that do import even some food…if they were counting on getting those crops from the Southern Hemisphere countries, they are out of luck! Because of the eruption of Tonga, crops in the south are going to be very low this growing season.Exactly. This year's crops or lack thereof (of non-perishables), won't hit the shelves until this time, next year. This year's shortages won't be evident until then.
Do y'all have any if the ugly crop "rescue" companies there? Here we have several companies that purchase misshapen produce and sells them at a discount.you wont see shortages in British stores, nobody will actually starve, whether British farmers are getting the right prices for their produce from the supermarkets is something else, supermarkets are very picky in what they buy, anything undersized or an odd shape is refused but it eats the same.
there is a problem getting pickers for the stuff that has to be picked by hand, then there are always floods and droughts that effect the crops.
I live in one of the largest crop producing counties in the UK. My neighbours are farmers and I speak with many of them regularly when walking the pooches. They are all very worried about this.
Boris Johnson shut down one of the largest agro chem manufacturing plants in the UK last year and this has pushed the prices up per hectare fertilised considerably - don't even get me stared on pesticides! I buy weevily grain super cheap off some of them but I am pure country and know how to deal with this problem - been doing so for years. Most townies would lose their lunch if they saw crawling things in their flour and us bumpkins would lol. Townies are so precious.
When one adds into the equation that we will not take certain ag chem constituents from RU because of sanctions and even if we did still trade we now have limited production due to the plant shut down - we are in very big trouble.
I walk miles and have done so for years. I see the same high Nitrogen dependant crops being grown in the same fields year after year - without fertiliser they WILL fail and the yield per hectare WILL reduce dramatically, meaning fewer bushels produced and much higher prices. Crop rotation is not possible on the farms of this size - it was almost like they were set up to fail. The supermarkets are already refusing British egg farmers their going rates (they blame bird flu lol there is zero sign of it out here in the sticks) and will import eggs from Italy (because Jumbo jets are sooo good for the climate change hysteria I suspect, right? Roflmao) and this is just the start of the bullSt ... just fill in the blanks.
You have no idea how stupid the average Brit is and how little fks they give about where 'their' food (it belongs to the farmers who grow it and if they refuse to sell then you guys in the cities get a hungry belly real fast - did you grow it? No, then shut up) comes from. The dairy guys near me saw good milk poured onto super market carpets and have now installed machines on their heifer yards - I take a clean and empty container to the farm and get the best grass fed heifer milk you can possibly imagine to taste and this keeps my pals farming. I also get cheese and butter.
If you live in the city and you see idiots tipping good milk over the floor perhaps call the filth and register a complaint about criminal damage or theft. You are putting the folks who produce your city food out of business. Or don't. It is YOUR choice. Don't cry when there is nothing on the shelves.
And for all those folks in 'remote' (lmafao there is nothing remote in the entire UK as it is ALL in walking distance given enough time and the right motivating factors) who have the "I'm alright Jack" mentality - my advice is to give it time
I watched a very funny bit of propaganda recently on Youtube (mepipe as I call it) it was titled "Aftermath: Population zero - The World Without Humans".Glad you have a clear head, a clear picture and hopefully a clear future
Clear future? UK here. Friend I dunno where you are at but in the US some think the UK has no firearms. Rest assured there a lot of farmers that own things that many would not tangle with - all legally owned. At certain times out here the average townie would think it was the Wild West lol. Then there are folks like me who have very specialised sporting pursuits - again 100% legal under UK law. Now friend, if you have a spare few minutes, go look on Youtube and see how the average human (we call them townies) fare against a goose - one single goose! You may need to hold your ribs as you will laugh very hard. When you can breath without laughing, then look up Bulls chasing dogs or dog walkers. Again please brace your ribs in case you laugh very hard and break one. I want zero injuries here.Glad you have a clear head, a clear picture and hopefully a clear future
Sorry but I think you misunderstood what I wanted to say in a few words.Clear future? UK here.
Sorry but I think you misunderstood what I wanted to say in a few words.
I meant you had a clear picture of what was happening around you in the UK- and that you were one of the few with a clear head and not another sheeple following the herd to slaughter. Also hoping you had a clear future of being able to prep, self-support and keep together with the farmers in your area to support each other and protect each other...hopefully that came over better. I am not in the US also.
I have seen many videos of grown ups and children running from geese, chickens and also from donkeys trying to get some sex with a guy who pulled his pants down to take a dump in the wrong field...
I have all that covered, thanks for the tips tho. I have more in a single backpack than 99% of the world has in their pantry for survival. I have been teaching survival and preparedness since 1974 and had survival school in Germany for five years. Now I am planning another school in Hungary with the mayor of the local town and theUse old pop bottles to store water, buy carbs and pulse, get portable water filter and outdoor stuff and get ready to run in the future.
I've had people tell me that we live in the middle of nowhere too. To me we live in the middle of the best possible place we could be if things go south. There's everything one would need around us; mountains, forests, lakes, springs, creeks with good drinking water, fish and game. And most importantly, no people.nobody will actually starve in the UK until TSHTF for real, well a few might but they are the idiots who cant cook. wont cook and live off take aways and ready meals, plenty of those types in the cities.
I have lived in a British city, 40 years, and I have lived for the last 25 years in rural areas, so I think I have seen both sides of the coin.
Arable farmers HAVE to use the mono cropping method, heavy in chemicals, fertilisers and pesticides, to produce the amounts of food they have to these days, there are only 2 places in the UK that produce fertilisers, from imported ingredients I am told and mostly from Russia, so thats stuffed for a start, one of these fertiliser plants is mothballed, shutdown, and the other may be too for all I know, so post SHTF without imports no fertiliser will be produced and no imported pesticides so mono cropping will not be possible and those areas of land will not produce crops without those chemicals, the land will be infertile for years. post SHTF without imports we will be unable to feed the current population of this country, so a large die off would seem inevitable.
as for nowhere in Britain being remote, that may be true if someone lives near the capital or one of the big cities, but there are areas that are many miles, several hundreds of miles from these cities and without fuel, filling stations will be empty within 24 hours of the mass panic caused by a major SHTF event, British drivers drive mostly on empty or low tanks, so a mass walkout from the cities just isnt logical, coupled with the fact we have an obesity crisis in this country and most people are seriously unhealthy and unfit for such an event. the amount of people waiting for treatment is proof of this. the number of people that would attempt to walk anywhere would therefore be minimal and would not happen anyway until the leccy went off, most would expect the govt to save them, some hope.
wife was told a long time ago by a doctor no less, that we live "in the middle of nowhere" and that he wouldnt want to live where we do.
And, how many would get into their car or truck without blankets, sleeping bags or food and water and then "get surprised" when the car breaks down and they are stuck "in the middle of nowhere" and die from cold...They won't walk very far, especially in winter. Most city people don't even have adequate winter clothing or good shoes.
All of you above have pointed out very important facts of the change in “modern humans”. All showing one thing clearly…humans, as a whole, have LOST the knowledge and skills and even drive to survive!!!
the modern masses have dispensed with all the old skills which will be required to survive WTSHTF, their knowledge comes from the internet, why learn anything when you can google it? except after SHTF that is.All of you above have pointed out very important facts of the change in “modern humans”. All showing one thing clearly…humans, as a whole, have LOST the knowledge and skills and even drive to survive!!!
When I was a teen, I always had a generator, jumper cables, blankets, a first aid kit, flares, and reflectors in my car. Everyone made fun of me, but who did they call over when they needed a jump?And, how many would get into their car or truck without blankets, sleeping bags or food and water and then "get surprised" when the car breaks down and they are stuck "in the middle of nowhere" and die from cold...
When I was a teen, I always had a generator, jumper cables, blankets, a first aid kit, flares, and reflectors in my car. Everyone made fun of me, but who did they call over when they needed a jump?
Now I can't imagine letting my kids take a car out that didn't have those basic supplies.
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