Expect price spikes and shortages as the energy crisis is now impacting the food chain.
The Energy Crisis Is Now Impacting The Food Chain
October 21 (King World News) – Gregory Mannarino, writing for the Trends Journal: FOR HOW LONG NOW HAVE WE WARNED THAT THIS WOULD HAPPEN!
NOW, IT’S NO LONGER THEORETICAL… IT’S HAPPENING IN REAL TIME.
We have tried to warn REPEATEDLY that an energy crisis does not remain an energy crisis NOR on an oil price screen/chart.
It moves through transportation. Through manufacturing. Through shipping. Through inflation. And eventually…
RIGHT INTO PEOPLES FOOD.
“IF YOU WANT TO CONTROL A POPULATION… STARVE THEM. MAKE THEM SUFFER… MAKE THEM BEG FOR A SOLUTION”
MAJOR KEY POINT. Food inflation here in the US and globally, is expected to accelerate through the remainder of 2026 and persist well into 2027.
What’s being blamed?
The US/Iran war with related shipping disruption, higher fuel, and rising fertilizer costs.
A WARNING HIDDEN IN PLAIN SIGHT.
The FAO, (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) just issued a global food warning, (or is it a promise), specifically ADMITTING that the pressure on the availability of food is become substantial, (their words not mine), and will become more pronounced as existing buffers wear down.
This is exactly the progression we have been warning about to anyone who will listen…
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MAJOR KEY POINT. How Did We get Here?
1. Just a comedy of errors?
2. A Policy Mistake?
NO.
WHOEVER OR WHATEVER THING CONTROLS THE AVAILABILITY, TRANSPORTATION AND COST OF FOOD EXERTS ENORMOUS PRESSURE OVER HUMAN BEHAVIOR.
THIS IS SPREADING WORLDWIDE. The head of the UN International Fund for Agricultural Development said this: “the effects of the US/Iran war disruption are becoming visible in agricultural harvests.”
Why?
Because agriculture requires more than land and rain. It requires fuel. Fertilizer. Machinery. Transportation. Storage. Electricity. Shipping…
AND ALL OF THAT is funded by the availability, and flow of credit/debt through the system.
MAJOR MAJOR MAJOR KEY POINT. LWHEN, (and its just a matter of time), a major credit event causes the flow of credit to seize up, farmers, processors, shippers, wholesalers, and retailers, AND THE ENTIRE SYSTEM LOCKS UP. (POOF AS IN GONE).
The result will be MORE than pandemonium in the streets… MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WILL DIE.
STOP HERE ARE READ THIS CLICK HERE: GLOBAL DEBT AND THE HUMAN BUBBLE.
MAKE NO MISTAKE. Agriculture is especially vulnerable.
Why?
Because it is capital intensive on an EPIC SCALE.
If a farmer can’t finance fertilizer or planting at the right time, they can’t just delay production a week………….. they can lose an entire growing cycle.
(Any farmers out here to back my claim up?) I would like to hear from you….
A CREDIT SHOCK WILL BECOME A FOOD SUPPLY SHOCK.
If this happens while energy and fertilizer costs are already elevated, the impact can compound very quickly.
This issue is so profound that…
- It’s being largely kept from the public.
- As a result, a UN backed plan is currently in effect TO PREPARE FOR MASS SHORTAGES.
- UN officials are issuing warnings that missing the planting “window,” due to fertilized shortages WILL significantly reduce agricultural productivity.
- A prolonged disruption WILL drive food prices sharply higher.
MAJOR KEY POINT. A worsening fertilizer shortage precipitates a chain of events…
- First the farmer uses less fertilizer.
- Then yields weaken.
- Then harvest volumes decline.
- Then inventories tighten.
- Then importers compete for fewer available supplies.
- Then prices rise.
A LAG EFFECT.
All this is already happening… IT’S NOT THEORY.
With that, there is a lag, meaning… FOOD SHOCK ARRIVES MONTHS AFTER THE INITIAL ENERGY SHOCK. (And let’s give credit to ourselves where its due… WE WARNED OVER AND OVER AND OVER TO ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN THAT THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT WOULD HAPPEN).
And………. It’s happening now in real time moreover, THE BUFFER IS GETTING THINNER
Until now, large global inventories have helped absorb the disruption.
Now again according, to the FAO, (the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations), those buffers are coming under increasing pressure.
The FAO Food Price Index skyrocketed in September. (Below is a chart of the index from Feb. this year…)
Wheat prices ALONE are already up more than 30% in 2026.
THE FOOD INFLATION MACHINE IS MULTIPLYING COSTS AT EVERY STEP LEADING TO YOUR TABLE. (AND ITS NOT GOING TO STOP).
Here is the chain… oil becomes more expensive. Diesel becomes more expensive. Fertilizer becomes more expensive. Farm equipment becomes more expensive to operate. Harvesting becomes more expensive. Trucking becomes more expensive. Shipping becomes more expensive. Insurance becomes more expensive. Warehousing becomes more expensive.
Retailers face higher distribution costs.
And then YOU, the consumer pays the final bill.
FOR MANY MONTHS NOW, (with Trump’s war now going on 9 MONTHS), we have discussed the “stacking effect” of all the dynamics in play right now… and with that, here again IN REAL TIME, we have multiple price increases stacked on top of one another.
FINAL MAJOR KEY POINT… ALL THIS IS NOT GOING TO STOP… UNTIL WE THE PEOPLE FINIALLY SAY ENOUGH.
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