The US Has No Grain Reserves - Feed/Seed Shortages

[Weedygarden]

Not to worry. Our strategic bacon reserve is over 40 billion pounds.

https://www.insidehook.com/daily_brief/food-and-drink/bacon-surplus-america

I wonder if that is why it was cheaper at the store this week.

 

[Supervisor42]

I wonder if that is why it was cheaper at the store this week.

Likely. I'm sure it's expensive to keep 40-billion pounds refrigerated.

 

[Amish Heart]

Maybe they could ship it to Norway to store with the seeds.

 

[elkhound]

 

[elkhound]

11-21-19

Early freeze cripples Red River Valley potato crop
https://www.thelandonline.com/news/...cle_fe50dfc0-0c95-11ea-a69b-47a531b38473.html

EAST GRAND FORKS, Minn. — As of the end of October, potato growers in the Red River Valley of Minnesota and North Dakota had lost or abandoned approximately 9,000 acres of potatoes due to unprecedented amounts of rain and snow during September and October, according to Ted Kreis of Northern Plains Potato Growers Association.



Thousands of seed potato acres in the Red River Valley will go to waste

https://www.agweek.com/business/agr...d-potato-acres-red-river-valley-will-go-waste