Things made of rubber, plastic, computer chips, and other things using oil additive/ plastics type fluids and hardeners seem to be very much in short supply for a year already.
We have been living off the warehouse inventories until now.
Even if the companies and shipping starts going full bore today, will we be able to make up the demand plus a comfortable margin to have in the warehouses?
That would be unlikely......
And it doesnt seem we are anywhere near going full bore production or shipping around the globe.
So the grain we just grew will be fed to critters for the next 12-24 months. At which time the critters will hit our plates, into 2024.
And shortages from a 2022 crop will not be felt very much until 2024 or 2025.
Current govt and current media doesnt care a thing about 2024. They are busy looking backwards. Not that I bother listening to them any more.
We wont hear a peep about this for a couple years.
If you ran a modern farm and broke anything on the combine, there was a long list of parts not available; and if your combine busted there werent many running combines left on the lot to rent or barrow.
Friend was telling me he had to run the last 100 acres of beans with a bad sickle drive; lube it well and tighten the bolts tight the dealer told him, there are none in North America. A popular green combine. I could tell you a dozen more examples. A lot of farmers had to finish up for their neighbors. Back in spring farmers were sharing planters and planter tractors, couldnt get parts then already.
We have scraped the bottom of the barrel dry in the last 18 months.
No one appears willing to address this, or make the common city dweller aware of what we face.
We can get through it fine if we see, acknowledge, and face the problem and work on solving it as a society.
That is not happening. So far.
Every industry I briefly brush up against is facing the same issues, everything is in short supply everywhere.
Look at iron, oils, fertilizer, herbicides. In agriculture, where do we go?
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