The First Map of America’s Food Supply Chain

33 Replies to “The First Map of America’s Food Supply Chain”

1. I haven’t checked lately, but maybe ten years ago the U.S. imported more food than it exported in every category other than grains. Meat, Vegetables, Fruit, everything. I suppose that’s why those maps showed large sources in Southern Texas and port cities.

   1. What do people eat other than meat, vegetables, grains and fruit? Other than sea food that pretty much covers everything.

      1. That was my point. The U.S. imports more food than it exports in every category other than grains. At the moment, the U.S. imports twice as many fruits and vegetables as it exports. NAFTA has a lot to do with this. Read it and weep: https://fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL34468.pdf

   2. Most likely that is export not import. Lots of grain goes down the Mississippi in barges to terminals in LA

2. With the Grand Solar Minimum, the Jet Stream has been disrupted, solar output has dropped, and some studies are showing large drops in DGD. DGD or Degree Growing Days is the required amount of heat units, that crops need to reach maturity in so many days. You can look this up.

   1. Watched a vid a few weeks ago.. Farmer in Texas?.. bemoaning that the frost had put a stop to growth weeks before normal.. Predicting shortages but was not reported by proper agencies because of fear from citizenry of said shortages.. Was that a vid I saw on here?.. Perhaps.. Zombie Apoc to follow.. Put away food folks.

      1. They are hiding crop failures like they are hiding temperatures. They will not face the reality that AWG is a fraud and we have all been scammed.
         https://electroverse.net/all-time-record-cold-sweeps-alberta-canada/

3. If you do look it up, you will see that global food production and inventories have risen steadily at a remarkable rate. Better seeds and farming practices have allowed this to happen without increasing the acreage used.

   An under reported great success story.

   http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/csdb/en/

   1. Raaaaaacist!

   2. Out of date info for 2019 global crop losses

   3. Oh my PJ! You didn’t get the memo from the “Union of Publicly Interested Concerned Scientists” (or whatever they call themselves) … that those seeds are BAD

      Those seeds are creating a GMO hell! The UN (or some Agency) are storing “clean, healthy, seeds” in an ice cave in Norway (or some such PURE Scandinavian country). Just for all the Vegans who survive the coming food wars

4. Leftists want this to grind to a halt. Think I’m kidding?

5. About those riots in Chile.

   https://wattsupwiththat.com/2019/11/01/expensive-climate-policies-sparked-chile-riots-and-cop25-climate-conference-cancellation/

   Nothing will happen here until there is no disposable income left.

   1. But, but, but … RoO, I read from the MSM that the riots were caused by a hike in transit fares. That’s all. Nothing to see here.

      1. Read the article; they were due to CO2 taxes, etc.

         1. I just paid $1.55 l for reg. here in lower mainland.

         2. RoO … I read OTHER articles saying it was a hike in bus fares … sorry for the confusion.

            Would a /sarc. tag help?

6. OK, OK, I get it Kate … I complain about long droning videos … and so you post this 100k words, charts, and graphs, just to give me some stick in return. Yes … I said that I prefer to READ an article … but … but … My head is spinning. OK, no more complaining about Tim Pool. Touché

7. That same site has a link to how they have helped pimp the CAGW hysteria with their rainbow-like graphics.

8. I remember getting a Super Store bonus card. We bought almost $300 worth of groceries and were awarded zero points. The check-out lady said they don’t give out points for fresh veggies, fruit and meat, but they give lots of points for President’s Choice processed foods and other sh$t in boxes, bags and cans.

   2019 is looking like a bad year for food production (in the US) but with so much food heavily processed consumers probably won’t notice the difference as that crap will last for years.

   1. I get fresh fruit, vegetable and meat offers every week on my PC Optimum points card. This week was fresh pork, pears and broccoli. It did take a couple of weeks shopping before the offers lined up with what I wanted to buy. If you buy a lot of processed foods you’ll mostly get offers for processed foods. The weekly offers are based on your shopping purchases.

      1. Exactly

      2. I never ever shop at Superstore (AKA Stupidstore).. For the reason that the crooked Weston’s price fixed the price of bread. And also that they are part of the “laurentian elite”.

9. What do people eat other than meat, vegetables, grains and fruit? Other than sea food that pretty much covers everything.

10. Lot of farmers in central Illinois still have crops in the fields and 4 inches of snow on the ground. Grain was still too wet to harvest

    1. My little garden here in Vanc area.. was a failure.. My corn was tiny and failed, my peas and beans which usually have too much had nothing, died early, my cucumbers were a fail.. everything .. even potato plants blossomed and died early. And we had good growing weather. I don’t know anyone who had a good garden this year.. Not enough co2?.. Maybe, as the nutters here do as much as they can to suppress it.

       1. Our carrots and beets were tiny. Think we had one day of 30C heat, otw mid to low 20’s. May was quite cool.
          Gassed up the Subaruban with $0.899 regular yesterday, cowtown.

       2. I only grew tomatoes this year and got a bumper crop. I grew two determinate varieties of cherry and grape tomatoes. The bushes were supposed to top out at 4 feet and they reached 8 feet. I had to rig up extra support so the whole garden didn’t fall over. Got a lot of excellent sweet fruit. The grape tomatoes were the size of small romas. I’m on the western end of Lake Ontario. I live on a ravine surrounded by trees and have been getting less and less light each year and still got great growth.

    2. Here in south-central Iowa, we don’t have snow on the ground (it has snowed twice, but the snow has melted), but we definitely have corn that hasn’t been harvested – possibly soybeans, too, but I haven’t seen a soybean field for a while.

11. People in the know are worried about excessive production leading to lower prices.
    https://www.albertafarmexpress.ca/2019/06/17/fears-of-a-global-grain-glut-on-the-rise/

    And let’s not forget about the beneficial impact of higher CO2 levels! NASA tells us that “We show a persistent and widespread increase of growing season integrated LAI (greening) over 25% to 50% of the global vegetated area… Factorial simulations with multiple global ecosystem models suggest that CO2 fertilization effects explain 70% of the observed greening trend…”
    https://www.naturalnews.com/2019-04-26-nasa-declares-carbon-dioxide-is-greening-the-earth.html

12. my banana trees died, and they were soooo young:-)))

    1. How are the Yukon Gold pineapples doing?

13. It would be fascinating if the data existed and someone used it to do this map, but of The World.