UK Supermarkets introduce RATIONING after shortage of store cupboard staple

Supermarkets are set to introduce new rationing after tinned tomato suppliers revealed they were running low on the item.

After three years of poor harvests, tinned tomato suppliers have imposed limits on the amount each supermarket receives.

This is to avoid running out of stock before the next harvest begins in August.

Director at Conserve Italia, Diego Pariotti, said: “We are basically out of stock on every single line because for the last three years we didn’t have enough to satisfy demand.”

Currently, Italy supplies more than three quarters of the UK’s tomatoes.

As a consequence, Britons may not be able to get their hands on tinned tomatoes this summer.

These shortages have also led to an increase of 20 percent on prices..

[IAF: Remember Italy can't find steel for cans, and so this harvest risks going to waste! Original report: https://www.iceagefarmer.com/2021/06/12/italys-tomato-harvest-threatened-by-can-shortages-food-supply-chain-failures/ ]

#GrandSolarMinimum #uk #FoodPrices

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/food/1452764/tinned-tomatoes-shortage-steel-cans-supermarkets-tesco-asda-sainsburys

Macron speaks to plans to massively expand “food stamps” — just as the Rockefeller “Reset the Table” plan described:

PARIS, March 22 (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron, currently campaigning for re-election, on Tuesday said he was considering giving special cheques to poor households to compensate for increased food prices following Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

#France #EU #FoodPrices

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/frances-macron-mulls-food-stamps-help-poor-households-cope-with-ukraine-war-2022-03-22/

Fertilizer prices spike 43% to fresh record high as supplies tighten. Rising costs of farm inputs will continue to send food prices soaring.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-03-28/fertilizer-price-surges-43-to-fresh-record-as-supplies-tighten
#fertilizer #FoodPrices #inflation

And overnight, food prices are rising up to 50% in Germany. It’s happening fast:

“German retailer Aldi Nord will raise its prices by an average of 20-50% due to an increase in production costs, local media reported on Sunday.
From Monday onwards, meat, sausage products, and butter will be "significantly more expensive," a company spokesman told German press agency DPA, adding that the price hikes in various products were necessary due to the rise in manufacturing costs.

#Germany #FoodPrices

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/economy/german-retailer-aldi-nord-to-raise-prices-by-20-50-on-monday/2554218

Expect food prices to continue to rise:

Crop production in Ukraine this year could be down anywhere from 20% to 80%, significant,” he said. European farmers have been reducing fertilizer application rates and are adjusting the way they use the products.

“What it means is that we’re going to see lower yields going into the year ahead, so there’s going to be less grain as we come out of this growing season, and therefore high grain prices going over into 2023,” Claxton said.

#wheat #eu #FoodPrices #inflation

https://agfax.com/2022/04/01/sizing-up-ag-effects-of-ukraine-war-dtn/

Drought in the wheat growing areas of USA has latest USDA Winter Wheat crop condition estimates at worst in 10 years. China also claims their wheat is the worst on record. Ukraine/Russia not exporting.

Hard Red Winter wheat is nearly half of the overall US wheat production.

Multiple breadbasket failure.

#Wheat #FoodShortages #FoodPrices #GrandSolarMinimum

https://agfax.com/2022/04/04/1st-seasonal-crop-progress-report-shows-lowest-winter-wheat-condition-in-a-decade-dtn/

BREAKING: India mulls export limits on wheat.

We went from “India will step in to cover the Ukraine wheat” to new export limits in about a month.

This is huge. With other major exporters already limiting, Black Sea not shipping, US having worst wheat since ‘89, China worst on record - this really signals the “protectionist” policies (ie keep our food domestic!) will now spread everywhere. And importers are in real trouble.

For more: #wheat in @iceagefarmer

#FoodPrices #FoodShortages #india

https://www.bloombergquint.com/global-economics/india-considers-restricting-wheat-exports-as-heat-destroys-crops

"Could a food shortage be coming?" Record diesel prices are crushing farmers

“I’ve got a tractor hooked up to my corn planter out here, no diesel fuel, and I can’t afford to get any.”

The crushing reality of record diesel fuel prices is pushing farmers to the brink and may affect food availability. <- [READ IT AGAIN]

“We have reached that point to where it is very close to being a sinking ship,” Kotzmoyer, a legislative affairs specialist for the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, testified to state lawmakers Tuesday. “We are teetering on the edge right now. Food may not be as available because of the fuel price surge."

#EnergyCrisis #FoodShortage #FoodPrices #usa

https://www.mcall.com/news/pennsylvania/capitol-ideas/mc-nws-pa-hearing-inflation-farmers-20220614-d664grvihnfilakimt4wvcy6e4-story.html

India's drought conditions bode poorly for #rice prices — and for #FoodPrices in general as supplies run short of other grains.

#India

(see note below:)

German food banks suffer as former donors forced to become recipients

“People who used to be on the other side donating and helping us are now coming and asking for help," says Petra Lehmann, who heads the Heimatstern association. "We have lots of families now where it's impossible from one income to feed the family because it's so expensive."
This is also changing people's behaviors. "We buy more jars of cheap food," says Sertap. "It may be chicken. It could be fish, beans because they are more suitable for us."

Pensioner Katrin Obermeier has started rationing her food: "I'm using foods longer, especially past the expiration date because it is still well preserved."

[IceAgeFarmer note: this is true BUT remember that removal of date markings by end of 2022 was planned in the 2018 EU Farm to Fork agenda!! We are following the globalist food crisis scripts to a T!!]

#eu #Germany #FoodPrices

https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2022-08-03/German-food-banks-suffer-as-former-donors-forced-to-become-recipients-1caW7UfseWI/index.html

Emergence of "black market food" more expensive than the government rations — we will witness this anywhere there is rationing.

Lebanese face long ‘insulting’ queues to buy bread

Khalil Mansour has to queue for hours every day just to buy bread for his family and some days he can’t afford any. In a country which once boasted the nickname “Switzerland of the Middle East” for its thriving banking sector before financial crisis hit in 2019, the chronic shortage of the staple of the Lebanese diet has been hard to take.

Faced with demands from international creditors for painful reforms in return for the release of new aid, the embattled government has been forced to end subsidies on most essential goods — although not so far on wheat. The price of subsidised bread has gone up, although by less than if there were no subsidy, but bakeries have started rationing the staple. A bag of flat Arabic pitta-like bread now officially sells for 13,000 Lebanese pounds (43 US cents). On the black market it costs more than 30,000. “Last week I went without bread for three days because I cannot afford to pay 30,000,” said Mansour, 48.

For Mansour and most Lebanese, buying bread means standing for hours in long queues outside bakeries and sometimes, when their turn comes, the bakeries have run out of bread.

#FoodPrices #Rationing #Lebanon

https://dailytimes.com.pk/975287/lebanese-face-long-insulting-queues-to-buy-bread/

India has banned wheat exports to protect domestic prices.

Here's why this is a really big deal as we enter full on #FoodWars. Top wheat producers are being hit across the board:

#1 China. (also #1 consumer!)
#2 India. (and now exports are banned.)
#3 Russia (#1 exporter — but Black Sea shipping is affected, and sanctions stop some buyers)
#4 USA (terrible season, drought)
#5 France (drought has severely impacted yields)
#6 Canada (spotty harvest so far)
#7 Germany (drought has severely impacted yields - some est. 50%)
#10 Ukraine

It is these nations that the rest of the world upon for their bread. And bear in mind some major wheat exporters like Kazakhstan have banned wheat/flour exports. Supplies are getting tight and countries are acting defensively. No relief in sight as harvests are looking bad across Northern hemisphere and things are off to poor start in S. America.

Stock up and keep growing food!

#wheat #FoodPrices

🚨 Canada: wheat stocks down 38% year over year.

#canada #FoodPrices #wheat