[steam_cannon]

I usually come across an article regarding this every year and every year it's worse. Grain stocks are a pretty good indicator of food depletion as grains are used in most products and meat prices are pretty strongly linked. Of course grain production for Ethanol may seem to skew these numbers, but I don't think it does. We choose to produce fuel from our food, and then the food becomes scarce. That's still qualifies as a shortage, even if it is due to mismanagement and fall out from other energy shortage problems. There have been tortilla riots in Mexico this year due to ethanol hiking up prices...

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('energybulletin', '
')World Grain Stocks Fall to 57 Days of Consumption: Grain Prices Starting to Rise (2006)

This year’s world grain harvest is projected to fall short of consumption by 61 million tons, marking the sixth time in the last seven years that production has failed to satisfy demand. As a result of these shortfalls, world carryover stocks at the end of this crop year are projected to drop to 57 days of consumption, the shortest buffer since the 56-day-low in 1972 that triggered a doubling of grain prices.

http://www.energybulletin.net/17261.html

[steam_cannon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('NTBKtrader', 'H')ow much domestic production is consumed in each country versus imported

[NTBKtrader]

awesome all very helpful thank you thank you!!!

[seahorse]

Are there any public companies trading on the stock exchange that are agricultural producers of either corn, wheat or rice? If so, I would appreciate any names you have and recommendations.

[Cid_Yama]

Ten to twelve pivotal companies, assisted by another three dozen, run the world's food supply. They are the key components of the Anglo-Dutch-Swiss food cartel, which is grouped around Britain's House of Windsor. Led by the six leading grain companies—Cargill, Continental, Louis Dreyfus, Bunge and Born, Andre, and Archer Daniels Midland/Topfer—the Windsor-led food and raw materials cartel has complete domination over world cereals and grains supplies, from wheat to corn and oats, from barley to sorghum and rye. But it also controls meat, dairy, edible oils and fats, fruits and vegetables, sugar, and all forms of spices.

http://www.larouchepub.com/other/1995/2 ... intro.html

[I_Like_Plants]

LaRouche isn't always considered the most objective source .....

He's not even pointing a finger at the Jews!

[Cid_Yama]

Nice corporate link chart - thought I would put it out there. Not many sources, period, for links between TPTB. Also the individual profiles for Big-Agribusiness Corporations are factually informative.

OPEC is not the only Cartel on the planet.

[Opies]

nature is responsible for food shortage. If someone doesn't starve, you get population growth... like we have now.

[I_Like_Plants]

good one Opies!

[TommyJefferson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'T')en to twelve pivotal companies, assisted by another three dozen, run the world's food supply. They are the key components of the Anglo-Dutch-Swiss food cartel, which is grouped around Britain's House of Windsor. Led by the six leading grain companies—Cargill, Continental, Louis Dreyfus, Bunge and Born, Andre, and Archer Daniels Midland/Topfer—the Windsor-led food and raw materials cartel has complete domination over world cereals and grains supplies, from wheat to corn and oats, from barley to sorghum and rye. But it also controls meat, dairy, edible oils and fats, fruits and vegetables, sugar, and all forms of spices.

[kadoomsoon]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Cid_Yama', 'T')en to twelve pivotal companies, assisted by another three dozen, run the world's food supply. They are the key components of the Anglo-Dutch-Swiss food cartel, which is grouped around Britain's House of Windsor. Led by the six leading grain companies—Cargill, Continental, Louis Dreyfus, Bunge and Born, Andre, and Archer Daniels Midland/Topfer—the Windsor-led food and raw materials cartel has complete domination over world cereals and grains supplies, from wheat to corn and oats, from barley to sorghum and rye. But it also controls meat, dairy, edible oils and fats, fruits and vegetables, sugar, and all forms of spices.

[sparky]

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IMHO all the links were a bit self serving , for the real stuff go to Mama

http://www.usda.gov/oce/commodity/wasde/index.htm

http://www.usda.gov/oce/weather/pubs/We ... /index.htm

http://www.fas.usda.gov/currwmt.asp

If you dig around the site and the links there is some excellent stats
this is the mother of all agricultural statistics all the rest derive from it
The important stuff in decreasing order is
Wheat , rice , coarse grains , corn and potatoes

the last harvest has been a disaster , both north and south
harvest cycle is six month in front of the price cycle , the "growing season " is also a bit different for some but generally understood to be from the first of june to the end of may ,
the biggest exporters are U.S. Canada , Australia , Argentina

the current price madness has many causes , the 2008/09 harvest so far , promise to be a bumper with a price collapse

there is a phosphate peak on the horizon and to be sure we are driving over a cliff , food wise it will all happen in the fullness of time , the poors will oscillate between malnutrition and starvation ,
The richs between normality and expensive steaks
there will be more and more poors and they will get closer to the front door

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[mattduke]

"A new crisis is emerging, a global food catastrophe that will reach further and be more crippling than anything the world has ever seen. The credit crunch and the reverberations of soaring oil prices around the world will pale in comparison to what is about to transpire, Donald Coxe, global portfolio strategist at BMO Financial Group said at the Empire Club's 14th annual investment outlook in Toronto on Thursday.

"It's not a matter of if, but when," he warned investors. "It's going to hit this year hard."

financialpost


Also...


"Japan, the world's biggest grain importer, plans to increase emergency stockpiles of corn, wheat and soybeans next year to ensure stable supplies at a time of soaring global prices, the Yomiuri newspaper reported."

bloomberg

[Madpaddy]

oil crisis, food crisis, pollution crisis, global warming crisis.

All just seperate ingredients of the one shit pie.

[FireJack]

This is what Richard Weinburg has been talking about, even if we solve the energy problem there are about 5-6 very serious problems coming together at once, hence the die-off. I think those who are healthy, mentally well, and self-sufficient will do the best.

I'm guessing the rest will die or join a slave plantation of some sort.

[dorlomin]

If Japan intends a big increase is stockpiles then it will likely be yet another factor increasing prices next year bringing famine closer for many of the worlds poorest. But I guess it is an acceptable means of using there dollars for something more worthwhile than US treasury bonds.

[billp]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'P')eak oil overthrows green revolution

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

So what do you guys think the chances are of the US replacing oil as the base value of the dollar with corn or food? Mind you they do have problems with water supply.

But if the price of water (with the addition of water meters) rises in price then swimming pools will go empty and food will become the new gold.

[cube]

EVERYBODY there is no need to worry!

This is where those "perpetual growth" economists jump in and say things like:
"As a resource becomes scarce and thus expensive, an alternative will be found."
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cube's investment advice.
If you own stock in a health fitness/ weight loss company right now would be a good time to put your money elsewhere.

[LoneSnark]

Yes, it is much more plausible to proclaim that just because we do things one way today it is the only way things can ever be done.