The Coming Food Inflation and Production Apocalypse
Prices are expected to rise to never before seen levels by the end of this year 2022.
Tucker Carlson Interviews Alfie Oakes on Food Inflation. Alfie Oakes is the owner of the famous Florida chain called "Seed to Table" and an outspoken critic of the Marxist-Leninist version of Leftists in the new Amerika.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfie_Oakes
Most of the interview he talks about himself and his businesses, but our focus is on the last part of the show where he talks about the coming Food Inflation and Production Apocalypse.
The reason we should listen to this interview is because Mr Oakes has the proven credibility to speak on these issues because he is seeing and making decisions based on what is happening in the food production cycle hence the name seed to table; he is involved in all aspects of the food cycle.
And what he is observing and dealing with in his own business will be shocking for those unprepared and unfamiliar with such material.
One of the reasons I felt like this this information needs to get out is we're seeing inflation on every single farm input item that we have that so much more exceeds the regular inflation and it doesn't make sense I think it's being manipulated I really do think it's being manipulated by I don't know if it's you know in like the you know, the Blackrock Vanguard state the some of the people that we that we feel may be trying to manipulate us towards a you know, globalist economy.
- Alfie Oakes
However, the inflation rates are not normal or like before, this time they are being manipulated by the elites who may be engineering this scheme for disgusting levels of profit and greed.
But we got the wooden stakes are now 300% higher. And that doesn't make any sense either, because the wood market did get go up. But the guys that have like the pulp wood that are selling wood aren't really getting more money out of their trees right now.
- Alfie Oakes
What it feels and looks like is more like price gouging for the elites. When item costs go up 300% then guess who pays in the end for such increased production costs.
It is the consumer where the buck stops and who ends up last on the cycle. Most of the costs are ultimately passed on to the final paying consumer.
Where are we headed? Mr. Oakes is strategically withdrawing from the market to focus on his core business, because he cannot pass on some of the rising costs because they will be that high. He expects food prices by the end of 2022 to be 100% higher.
But the biggest problem we have and why this year, I'm more concerned because for the first time in my life, I'm cutting the farm back from 3200 acres, I'm cutting it back to 1000 acres this year. And we're you know, my my goal was that I'm not going to have to lay a lot of people often I'm going to find other areas within the company, for them to work. But it doesn't make any sense to farm here in Florida anymore.
- Alfie Oakes
What is the problem? The cost of food production is now so high farmers like him are abandoning farm land and not growing more than they can afford to plant and yield.
It is the exact same scenario is Sri Lanka where they are undergoing similar economic collapse, but their case is a few months ahead of ours. In their case certain items are not even available so we are not even talking about the cost. Fertilizer is not even availabe because the government has no foreign currency reserves left to even pay for imported goods.
COLOMBO (BLOOMBERG) - For R. Daranagama, a 70-year-old rice farmer, the past year ranks among the most difficult of his life. As Sri Lanka battles its worst economic crisis in decades, Daranagama has barely touched his 1.6-ha field this season.
Without access to fertiliser, he and other farmers expect crop yields to slump, threatening food supplies across a nation already pushed to the brink.
"I do not know what the harvest will be," said Daranagama, who grows rice in the coastal district of Gampaha. "I have never seen a situation like this."
Fears of a hunger crisis are rising in Sri Lanka, a teardrop-shaped island south of India.
Shortages of items like flour and milk powder are widespread. Food inflation hovers around 60 per cent.
Faced with exorbitant costs, many farmers like Daranagama have skipped rice cultivation entirely this season.
If this reduced planting is the trend then what is the eventual result? A Food Inflation and Production Apocalypse because if only 1/3 of available land is being farmed then only 1/3 or less will be the yield. Can you reduce your meals to 1 per day?
And it's at this scale that we've got to the 3200 acres, we, we you know people laugh when I tell them this, but I say I set it up to where I hope to lose $2 million dollars at the farm, if we can grow 3200 acres and only lose $2 million, then that's a good year. For me. Now, we're set up to be able to do that, because we're very vertically integrated, I have the processing facilities and I have the retail stores and the trucking, and we we pack it ourselves. So we have all these other entities that that can make money along the way.
And even as long as we only lose, you know, no more than two and a half $3 million at the farm, we can still have an OK year. But if it starts to get worse than that, which now, if we're gonna have to put in an extra, you know, $12 to $15 million next year to grow the same crop that I'm already losing two or $3 million on, it just doesn't make make sense.
- Alfie Oakes
A perfect food apocalypse storm was brewing.
And you know, I hear him calling this a perfect storm. I think that it is but I think it's more manipulated by man, I think that I tuned into NPR, sometimes I tune in to see what the what, what what they're saying out there and they're blaming, blaming, and they're blaming on NPR, though, that could not even believe it. They're blaming our food shortage on global warming, and I'm like, it couldn't be farther from the truth.
- Alfie Oakes
How bad will it get?
[TC] So you think at the end by Christmas 2022, we're going to see food prices that are shocking to people beyond even what they're saying now
[AO] Beyond beyond what they're saying now. Yeah, we, we even with with I sell a lot of you know, we sell a lot of bigger chain stores, and we, if we were going to go we're going to continue to sell them for next year, which we're not we're gonna have to let a lot of that business go.
But if we were the prices that would be coming out at would be selling so much higher, I mean, it would have to be, you know, it would have to be maybe 100% higher.
So that's why I've decided that we're that we're going to pull back and I'm not getting rid of the land, we're going to keep the land, we're going to you know, it's good to let the land set and rest and we can we can we can put put some cover crops on there to keep the keep the land to build it up and make it even even more productive. Should we decide to go back in again, if the if the scenario changes.
The logistics supply chain breakdown was the not the only issue with our future food security that we had to contend with. We also had the unforeseen scenario of large farmers not farming their land because they could no longer afford the production and delivering charges for getting that yield to market.
We had grown so used to farmers working in the background and took their work for granted, but we will all have to now appreciate their contribution and their loss as we feel the pinch in our diet. A very sobering interview.
