I'll add to that by saying you may want to focus on filling the pantry with things that are shipped in from other nations (or from California, which is basically the same thing).
For example, Rice, Corn, Potatoes and Wheat will always be here. Those things are grown domestically, we had a good harvest this year and there is abundance for all Americans.
The U.S. is the leading soybean producer and exporter in the world and we fully produce our own vegetable oils.
The U.S. is one of the world’s largest producers of sugar and other sweeteners from sugarcane, sugarbeets and high fructose corn syrup.
The U.S. is a top producer of pulses (beans, peas, legumes, and peanuts) and we produce a huge variety of vegetables.
The U.S. is a top producer of tree nuts like almonds, pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts, and pistachios.
What you MAY consider, in filling that pantry, is that the U.S. does NOT produce Coffee or Cocoa. That is imported. If imports are cut off, then coffee and chocolate becomes an issue. :>( 50 percent of U.S. agricultural imports are horticultural products: fruits, foreign vegetables, tree nuts, wine, essential oils, and hops, but also include sugar, cocoa, coffee, natural rubber, etc... .
I wouldn't worry too much about stocking things that are in abundance, especially things grown in the South or Midwest. I would stock up more on those things that are imported from 10,000 miles away and have to go through port facilities.
I think you make good points. I can't say I know everything that is domestic or outsourced and I'm just waking up, but what you wrote makes me wonder how much should we worry about foreign goods, my opinion coffee and chocolate are not a big deal.
On the other hand, many reports local farmers are being payed to destroy their own goods for government subsidies.
Perishables are as well. Wheat ships easily, fruits not so much. Get a dehydrator and go to town, vit c from a pill works, but something about getting it from a dried plum hits all the right neuro transmitters.
I always cringe a bit when people suggest stocking up on coffee and cocoa to prepare for the end of the world. Not because these items won’t have trading value, but precisely because they will.
Reminds me of the great toilet paper pandemic of 2020
I'll add to that by saying you may want to focus on filling the pantry with things that are shipped in from other nations (or from California, which is basically the same thing).
For example, Rice, Corn, Potatoes and Wheat will always be here. Those things are grown domestically, we had a good harvest this year and there is abundance for all Americans.
The U.S. is the leading soybean producer and exporter in the world and we fully produce our own vegetable oils.
The U.S. is one of the world’s largest producers of sugar and other sweeteners from sugarcane, sugarbeets and high fructose corn syrup.
The U.S. is a top producer of pulses (beans, peas, legumes, and peanuts) and we produce a huge variety of vegetables.
The U.S. is a top producer of tree nuts like almonds, pecans, walnuts, hazelnuts, and pistachios.
What you MAY consider, in filling that pantry, is that the U.S. does NOT produce Coffee or Cocoa. That is imported. If imports are cut off, then coffee and chocolate becomes an issue. :>( 50 percent of U.S. agricultural imports are horticultural products: fruits, foreign vegetables, tree nuts, wine, essential oils, and hops, but also include sugar, cocoa, coffee, natural rubber, etc... .
I wouldn't worry too much about stocking things that are in abundance, especially things grown in the South or Midwest. I would stock up more on those things that are imported from 10,000 miles away and have to go through port facilities.
I think you make good points. I can't say I know everything that is domestic or outsourced and I'm just waking up, but what you wrote makes me wonder how much should we worry about foreign goods, my opinion coffee and chocolate are not a big deal.
On the other hand, many reports local farmers are being payed to destroy their own goods for government subsidies.
Coffee and cocoa are very good ideas
Perishables are as well. Wheat ships easily, fruits not so much. Get a dehydrator and go to town, vit c from a pill works, but something about getting it from a dried plum hits all the right neuro transmitters.
I always cringe a bit when people suggest stocking up on coffee and cocoa to prepare for the end of the world. Not because these items won’t have trading value, but precisely because they will.
Reminds me of the great toilet paper pandemic of 2020
Yeah, no way can you brew anything good from tp-it's designed to crumble..
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