Britain’s food supply is precarious – and Trump’s chaos is spreading. I have a plan. Do you? | George Monbiot https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/16/britain-food-supply-donald-trump-stockpile #Trumpadministration #Food&drinkindustry #Emergencyplanning #Tradepolicy #DonaldTrump #Farming #Food
Quebec company hopes its plan to sell bananas, other exotic produce bears fruit
This is partly why they want everyone to get covid over and over until they become disabled or die.
And isn’t this packaging of risky assets (after deregulation of course) what caused the last bubble?
He got involved in this back in 2020.
From the link:
“With the REIT model, instead of buying a single condo, you buy a share in a company that owns 100 or 200 condos. This investment vehicle was established by Congress in the 1960s, opening the doors to large-scale real estate investments for smaller investors. It’s a model that has enabled real estate hedge funds to buy up large swaths of thehousing market, driving up demand and prices. Recently, companies have begun applying a REIT-like model to land.”
JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters. | Civil Eats https://civileats.com/2024/09/18/jd-vance-invested-in-acretrader-heres-why-that-matters/
Farmers face steep losses in the middle of Trump's trade war and funding cuts - #Ag #Agriculture #farming #farms #AmericanCoup #politics #economy #tariffs https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/economics/farmers-face-steep-losses-middle-trumps-trade-war-funding-cuts-rcna195967
Environmental scheme closure a 'shattering blow' to farmers - NFU
Farmers may turn their backs on environmental work for more intensive food production after the government suddenly closed a green funding scheme, the National Farmers' Union (NFU) has warned.
A Broom bush has these weird lumps of dense leaf matter. I have never seen this before. Does anyone know what is going on here?
I just received an amazing book... John Seymour The Self-Sufficient Life and How to Live It
The food farm info alone makes this book a must have for #UrbanFarming
At first glance, I'm blown away.
Want to #GrownYourOwn food? Looks like a great book to start with. Will see how updated the soil info is and get back to y'all.
How to grow 450 lbs of Potatoes in Just 200 Sq. Ft.
Great little video here on the rediscovery and importance of #Welsh Black Oats.
"Filmed in Welsh with English subtitles, it epitomises how and why reviving seed diversity is a transformational act, helping to re-value and pass on the language, skills and culture that have enabled farmers and rural communities to thrive for generations in Wales, and around our living planet". #farming #ArableFarming #SeedExchange #SeedPreservation #DiwylliantCymreig #Cymru #Cymraeg
"Turn your fear into fuel" - Futurist Jim Carroll
This photo was taken in October 2019. I'm in the room with a farming community in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. It's about as conservative as you can get.
They're worried. Farming is evolving too fast. Global competition is increasing. The science of agriculture is accelerating. Cost pressures are relentless. Automation is at the door. They can't hire enough people to work on the farms. They had big goals for global market opportunities for American agricultural products; then a tariff war cut into those hopes around 2017, and those goals weren't realized. Oops.
They're scared.
They're still scared but decided recently that even though the old plan didn't work the first time, it might work the second time.
It won't.
And so here we are.
If you get behind all of this and try to understand what is going on, the fact is they're scared of the future. They make often irrational decisions based on that fear - something I dug into yesterday. When I spoke to this crowd in 2019, they were, like many groups I speak to all over the US, terrified of what tomorrow represents. The result is that rather than trying to go forward, they undertake actions in an attempt to take themselves back to the 'good old days.' Make it great again, simply by stating it should be so, and then throwing a tantrum to try to make it happen.
Except, that never works.
Let that be a lesson - the key to tomorrow comes confronting your fear and turning it into opportunity.
How do you do this? This is what I would share with them today. What do you do if you are scared of tomorrow? Turn that fear into fuel. Think like this:
View future trends as opportunities, not threats It is important to adopt an innovative frame of mind and recognize the potential for growth and advancement. Move forward, not back.
Shift your focus. Far too many people view the future with fear rather than thinking about opportunity. An innovative mindset doesn't quiver from the fear of what might be coming next. Instead, it's alive from breathing the oxygen of opportunity.
Banish complacency and skepticism. Realize that in an era of rapid change, anything is possible. But only if you choose to chase it.
Take action. Rapid times require bold change. Don't avoid the future and fail to do the tough things needed to get there.
Challenge assumptions and eliminate habit. If your approach to the future is based upon your past success, ask yourself whether that will guarantee you similar results in the future. (Hint: it won't.)
Innovate! Innovators don’t make a difference by redoing the status quo — they accomplish great things by being different. And they don’t constrain their difference with traditional thinking: they simply think differently.
Re-engage with the future Shift your focus to the future with enthusiasm, motivation, and imagination. Turn it from an enemy into a friend that gives back to you!
There are many reasons for our current global state of affairs.
Like I've said many times, one reason is this.
It's better to align to the future than fear it.
You do that by turning the fear into fuel.
#Fear #Future #Innovation #Opportunity #Change #Mindset #Farming #Progress #Action #Growth
Original post: https://jimcarroll.com/2025/03/daily-inspiration-economic-volatility-turn-your-fear-into-fuel/
"Farmers and food organizations across the country are cutting staff, halting investments and missing key funding amid a USDA freeze on a broad swath of grants, more than two dozen farmers and agricultural support groups in seven states told Reuters.
"All this comes as Trump has imposed new tariffs on goods from Canada, Mexico and China, sparking trade wars with the biggest buyers of U.S. farm products."
https://www.reuters.com/world/us/farmers-put-plans-investments-hold-under-trump-usda-spending-freeze-2025-03-10/
The UK bans meat and dairy imports from Hungary and Slovakia after a foot-and-mouth case.
Confirmation of the case along the Hungarian-Slovak border comes less than two months after an outbreak of the highly contagious disease in Germany.
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And he gave it for his opinion, that whosoever could make two ears of corn or two blades of grass to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) English writer and churchman
Gulliver's Travels, Part 2 "Voyage to Brobdingnab," ch. 7 (1726)
Sourcing, notes: wist.info/swift-jonathan/10901…
We cannot ignore what factory farming does to the ecosystem any longer. It is leading to food shortages & famines.
"In farming, the availability of nutrients, particularly of nitrogen, potash and phosphorus – mostly referred to by their chemical symbols N, P and K – is a major limiting factor. All traditional farming systems have had some strategy for replacing nutrients in the soil."
Factory farming's methods are failing.
There are a lot of interesting things in this article about Larry Ellison's expensive ($500mn) efforts to build automated greenhouses on the island of Lanai, in Hawai'i (an island on which he owns 98% of land): https://luxurylaunches.com/other_stuff/larry-ellison-island-farming-plan-01032025.php
It's important reading for anyone curious about the reality of automated/indoor farming, which has captured the imagination of many, with its slick marketing images of clean, white greenhouses bursting with lettuces.
Not only does this case study reveal things about the difficulties of automated farming, it also reveals things about how people from the tech world approach agricultural projects.
waiting for summer 
