Posted on 04/14/2020 6:01:20 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I didn’t watch all of the video but the farmer was saying he was destroying his crop because the demand isn’t there due to restaurant shutdowns and things like that. He was urging people to buy American, so American farmers won’t have to destroy crops. Like I saud, I didn’t watch all of the video so I don’t know what he said after tha.
The farmer says that there was no demand for this crop (Zucchinis) at this time.
Dunno if that means no demand, or the prices were too low to justify harvesting.
Obvious agenda. Now it’s time to push food shortages to create more “chaos” and fear.
All I want for Christmas is to see these media pukes and their masters swinging from the neck on the nearest Street Light/Tree!
Why didn’t he publicize that he had lots of squash and people could come to his farm and buy it?
What’s the deal with flour? Did everybody start baking all of a sudden? I bake my own bread and when the flour disappeared, I did a double take. So many people don’t bake, cook or do anything other than take-out. I don’t get it.
One of our local meat markets has tapped into the wholesale chain.
Absolutely loaded with cheap bacon today.
They started baking.
Bread.
Apparently with bread machines.
Which are also sold out nationwide.
At times we are short on bread here in my neighborhood (Pittsburgh PA suburb), eggs and meat sometimes too. First time I saw toilet paper in a month, but only a few packs left, could only buy one. Same with paper towels. Really a mess if this goes on much longer I am afraid.
3 odd people coming on to my mom’s property in last 2 weeks. Slowly but surely, the wheels will come off the bus.
FDA scum regulations.
Bread machines, meh. It’s quicker, easier and less clean-up to do it the right way. Unfortunately I’ve used up all of my roasted peppers so my Jalapeno Cheese bread will have to wait until summer. I am growing more peppers this year so I won’t be short again.
I suppose one of the highest demands for Zucchini is in the appetizer usually had at restaurants. So, makes sense that if people aren’t going to restaurants, nobody orders deep fried zucchini...
Folks ain’t making zucchini at home with boiling oil and breading on their own...too McComplicated...
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They are so easy to grow, at times in the past people would go out at night/early a.m. and secretively leave piles at each mailbox.
Left on the vine, they can grow to the size of stove-cut firewood.
“Shouldn’t the that wholesaler talk with the box and grocery store to see if they could sell some of their goods?”
What’s a grocery store going to do with a box of 12 dozen eggs not package. Or a 5 gallon bag of milk. You could redirect the raw material but who has that kind of excess capacity to package it?
Not that easy to shift from wholesaler model (schools and restaurants) to grocery stores. Most grocery store chains are self contained. They have their own farmers that sell to their grocery store chain.
There has to be consumer demand to generate a shortage.
Then the grocery stores to buy up their full supply from there farmers,
AND THEN, if there is enough demand, the grocery store chain buyers will go outside of their already contracted farms and look for other sources.
Generic summary:
- About half of food is sold thru restaurants (broadly defined)
- Restaurant sales have plummeted (for obvious reasons)
- Processing, packaging & delivery of restaurant food is distinctly different from groceries
- Those in the processing/packaging/delivery business aren’t going to make massive costly rapid capital investments to double capacity for what should be a hiccup lasting a few weeks
- Food must be processed rapidly, else discarded
- Lacking sufficient processing/packaging/delivery mechanisms, about half of food is being discarded ... not because there isn’t demand, but there isn’t a supply chain capable of handling it
- Things are looking up, so after a few weeks of people trying to return to normal, and supply catching up thereto, we’ll recover ... in time for the election.
“industrial big-roll toilet paper”
I got a case of big roll TP from Target, FREE delivery.
One roll fits perfect inside a 10” round plastic cake carry.
Improvise folks, improvise.
Interesting perspective!
“Shouldn’t the that wholesaler talk with the box and grocery store to see if they could sell some of their goods?”
There was another thread on FR talking about this. Said before it was 60% restaurants, Disneyland, etc. type places that buy in bulk. 40% is supermarkets.
The dairy guy dumping his milk on the ground went to a place that was primarily bulk packages for restaurants. They weren’t set up for gallon jugs for stores. And the place that is set up for gallon jugs is out of jugs.
And the machines that make the jugs are from China.
If that is true and the jugs are the pinch point, maybe there is a way to get used milk jugs into the system? Steam clean them and ship them back off. Maybe with a disclaimer that they are re-used bottles and sell them for a nickel cheaper.
I was amazed that eating is 60/40. No wonder the stores are having trouble keeping stuff in stock.
Milk bottles were always reused up until the late 60s. i remember helping my mother wash them, then we would set them out on the porch and the milkman would leave fresh bottles full of milk. They were very sturdy, even though glass, and would be sterilized at the bottling company. Oak Farms and Borden’s were popular brands at the time. There’s no reason it couldn’t be done again.
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