Our General Store…Milk…Food Prices Rise
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For those who have been around for awhile you have heard me comment many times on the concern I have that food prices will rise this year.It is not only in the United States where there are concerns. The following is from the UK:
Sarah Pettitt, NFU Horticulture and Potato Board chairwoman, said the frozen ground was causing problems for producers everywhere.
”We are talking about cabbages, cauliflowers, spring greens, leeks,” she told the Daily Telegraph
”Where we would use a harvester we are having to throw 100 people at a field to do the job by hand. Then we are having to thaw out the produce in storage.
”Farmers are having to be innovative and to use desperate measures to do the harvesting.
”Shortages are not imminent yet, but we do not know how long this is going to last.”
Dairy farmers are still reporting problems with milk collection, with some producers being forced to pour away milk.
An organic dairy farmer said her husband was forced to throw away more than 1000 litres of milk after the milk tanker failed to get to her farm in Staffordshire on Sunday (10 January).
Global Concern
A surge in commodity prices may force consumer firms, particularly makers of eatables, to push up product prices in a calibrated manner in the next fiscal, industry officials said.
Costs of essential commodities including sugar and milk have soared in the recent past with sugar prices scaling new peaks in January as a rally, which more than doubled prices in 2009, still shows no signs of losing momentum.
Prices of other raw materials such as edible oils have also begun to rise as the larger food price index rose 18.22 percent in the 12 months to Dec. 26.
“It will be a common trend particularly in food companies such as Britannia <BRIT.BO>, Nestle <NEST.BO> and ITC <ITC.BO>, as prices of sugar, milk is going up,” said Anand Shah, an analyst at Angel Broking.
But, rather than hiking prices directly, the companies may prefer to reduce the grammage per pack, he said, adding that further increases in input costs may lead to price hikes as well.
Also..
Farmers and civil society groups urged the National Food Authority (NFA) on Monday to intervene in the market to prevent any more increases in the prices of rice.
These groups have likewise urged Agriculture Secretary Arthur C. Yap to investigate rice traders, who, they said, should answer for the rice price.
Record low temperatures have wiped out or damaged crops world wide but is this just the beginning?
From Miami to Maine, Savannah to Seattle, America is caught in an icy grip that one of the U.N.’s top global warming proponents says could mark the beginning of a mini ice age.
Oranges are freezing and millions of tropical fish are dying in Florida, and it could be just the beginning of a decades-long deep freeze, says Professor Mojib Latif, one of the world’s leading climate modelers.
Latif thinks the cold snap Americans have been suffering through is only the beginning. He says we’re in for 30 years of cooler temperatures — a mini ice age, he calls it, basing his theory on an analysis of natural cycles in water temperatures in the world’s oceans.
Many parts of the world have been suffering through record-setting snowfalls and arctic temperatures. The Midwest saw wind chills as low as 49 degrees below zero last week, while Europe saw snows so heavy that Eurostar train service and air travel were canceled across much of the continent. In Asia, Beijing was hit by its heaviest snowfall in 60 years.
Those of us who believe in living a self reliant life style do not need these news article to convince us but some of your family and friends may. Whatever your motivation, you will never be sorry you have food stored. If you are storing the foods you normally eat it will never go to waste.e key is storing what you eat, not tons of wheat if you can’t cook with wheat or freeze dried or dehydrated foos which sit for years until you finally throw them in a dumpster because they are no longer any good.
If you are new to our General Store we are stocking the shelves in our own in-home store with food for the next few weeks. We began last February and when we finish we will have a complete three month supply. We will then move on to non-food items. A week by week plan for stocking food will be available in March Newsletter.
This week add 5 pounds of powdered milk per family member to your store. Remember we are stocking our shelves with items from all of the food groups. That is absolutely necessary to maintain good health.
Don’t Forget the January Give Away!!!
http://www.fwi.co.uk/Articles/2010/01/11/119457/Food-price-rise-warning-as-snow-halts-harvest.htm
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20100111/tbs-fmcg-costs-focus-7318940.html
http://business.inquirer.net/money/breakingnews/view/20100111-246752/Govt-action-sought-to-stabilize-rice-prices
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/11/years-global-cooling-coming-say-leading-scientists/
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Price of milk going up? I don’t think that the dairy farmers would agree with you there. They are getting paid the worst prices for their milk in 30 years.
Julie, You are absolutely right. The story was from Britain where prices will go up due to the weather. The point of the post is that food prices are going up globally. I am so pleased that we have readers from the UK and all over the world so I try to include information that makes my post relevant to all. I know dairy farmers around CA are cutting their herds because of low prices, which in the end will make for higher prices at the store as the supply diminishes. Hopefully that scenario will change but for now that is the direction things are going.
Great info and much needed in these times, thanks for keeping us all in the know!
The price of food is indeed going up. At our local grocery store, a box of Wheat Thins is $5.69 !!!!!!! For one box ! It’s ridiculous. My kids love those. They also love Cheez-its, but where you used to be able to buy “Family Size” boxes, 2/$5.00, they don’t even stck that size anymore and now charge 2/$5.00 for the small boxes. It’s probably healthier for us not not to eat them, but it’s just the point. So frustrating……….