USA - It looks like global food production could be well below expectations in 2019, and that could spell big trouble in the months ahead. In recent weeks, I have written extensively about the problems that we have been experiencing here in the United States. As many as a million calves were lost to the flooding that hit the state of Nebraska in March, farmers have planted less than half of the corn that is normally in the ground by this time of the year, and a lot of the crops that have been planted in the middle of the country are really struggling due to extremely wet soil.
But it isn’t just the United States that is facing a very troubling year. Earlier today, one of my readers sent me an article entitled “Global food crisis ahead as extreme weather events devastate crops and fields around the world” which I would encourage everyone to read. In that article, we are told that after the worst drought in 116 years Australia has actually been forced to import wheat. And according to the Guardian, this is the first time in 12 years that this has happened… Normally, Australia exports a tremendous amount of wheat. In fact, they were the fifth largest exporter of wheat in the entire world last year. But now they are having to bring wheat in from Canada, and that is a very ominous sign.
The article on Strange Sounds also detailed crop failures in Italy, France, Mexico and Argentina. But one major crop failure that was missed in that article is the massive rice crop failure in the Philippines… More than P350 million worth of damage on rice crops due to drought was recorded by the Office of the Provincial Agriculturist (OPA)-Capiz. All over the world, crops are being devastated by floods, drought and colder than expected temperatures, and many are desperately hoping for a return to normalcy for global weather patterns.
Things are particularly bad in North Korea. At this point, hardly any rain at all has fallen so far in 2019… The rainfall is the lowest amount since 1982. Thus far in May, North Korea has seen 0.02 inches of rain. However, Pyongyang City, Nampho City, Kangwon Province and North and South Hwanghae provinces have seen no rainfall. With so little rain, farmers have had an exceedingly difficult time growing anything at all, and at this point the nation is facing an enormous food deficit…
On top of everything else, let us not forget that African Swine Fever is absolutely devastating the global pig population. According to the Hill, it is being projected that 200 million hogs could die from the disease in China alone… McDonald’s, Burger King, Jimmy Dean and Dunkin’ all reportedly expect sausage and bacon prices to rise this year as China has to import pigs to make up for the 200 million hogs that are expected to die from the disease. To put that in perspective, that is more pigs than the entire US pork industry produces in an entire year.
Even during the good years, the world has really struggled to feed everyone. Now that we are facing catastrophic crop failures all over the planet, what will we do? Many believe that a global food crisis is looming, and without a doubt US consumers will soon be paying much higher prices when they visit the grocery store.
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