“Harvesting in June will not be possible.”
28 Mar 2018 – “The heavy rain is causing delays in the Fucino area. The soil is soaked, so you can’t even set foot in the fields. We usually sow spring and summer carrots this time of year, but everything’s been compromised. Onions destined to the domestic market won’t probably even be sown,” explained Domenico Fidanza, Councillor for Agriculture at the Celano municipality.
“It probably won’t be possible to access the fields for another 20 days, provided it stops raining. Harvesting in June will not be possible, affecting hundreds of local businesses.
Thanks to Don Brown for this link
We will be fighting in the streets for food long before we are covered by a glacier!
Maybe you.
Folks get all excited about cold causing food shortages. Cold does not really matter. Why? Oats, as only one example, sprout at 0C and another example is rutabaga that are happy to sprout leaves under light snow.
What’s a big issue is MUD. It’s the water. Incessant rain means you can’t plant oats and rutabaga…
This story is much more a worry than cold, because it is saying wet and mud means no planting anything.
The good bit is that we can ship food all over the planet, so mud in Italy means farmers unhappy and housewives buy imported food from South America and Australia.
well and don’t forget the availablity (or not) of the seeds you need to grow alternate crops…. even if you did not have a mud problem.
Every couple of years I seem to go through a “paranoid” phase where I start worrying about things like EMP attacks and decide I better stock up on seeds. I just did that…
Ahh, good ol’ “mud season”, what we called spring in my home state of Wisconsin. The heavy clay soils would make planting impossible if it was wet for too long. Fun days indeed, especially getting in and out of your vehicle.
Thanks for the message. No one will believe it as they are indoctrinated into having holidays where there is sun and no rain. Food? You buy that in the shop! It is guaranteed as they do think. Governments aren’t thinking of food prices except when it rises sharply.
“We’ll be fighting in the streets for food long before we’re covered by ice.” – Robert Felix
waterlogged onions…nasty mess;-/
looks like the imports from African suppliers etc will soar..assuming theyve been in areas it has rained or the rivers/dams arent dry too
That of course depends on how many farmers are chased off their land & how good their replacements are. Not optimistic about Africa as A reliable food source!!
They are not just being chased off their land., the White farmers of South Africa are being tortured and killed.
We have a Holocaust coming with the soon to be death of 4 million White people in South Africa.
That article also states, “In addition, we must stress that Fucino is not equipped with reservoirs to collect all this water, so it will go to waste and we won’t be able to use it in case of summer drought.”
I wonder if they’ve been taking their lead from Gov. Jerry Brown?
Are there any National, or International Food Distributors who are taking any of this “Global Cooling” into account?
I can imagine huge Chains in Europe (Lidl, Aldi), and large US based corporations (Kroger-Safeway-Publix and Sysco-CB Food distributors) may show their hands (concerning what we talk about) by buying futures contracts?
Anybody here in the business and see any trends?
This week ends the many years current ownership of one of 2 local grocery stores, Smithfield Farm Fresh was just bought out by Kroger… so yes, I see that!
On the other hand, for quite a long time I used to call it Farm Rotten, because thier produce manager did such a lousy job you would often see mold growing in the produce bins. That being said, about a year or so ago they finally got better.
… and I should add that both Lidle and Aldi have just broken into this region (Hampton Roads VA)… not in my town but about 20 miels or so from here.
And these started out as “little” and “friendly” neighborhood stores, so I had no idea they were huge chains. Not that I’ve been in either.
Farmers should look to old records from 1790 to 1820 for Dalton observations of the late springs, Wet summers, and early Autum frosts.
You havn’t seen anything yet. SC24 has yet to finish and SC25 will be even worse.
It might dry up by 2056
Per seed storage (mentioned above) most seeds (not those of fruit trees or other ‘recalcitrant’ kinds that die if dried out) keep for many years to decades just in a home freezer.
You can put a couple of years worth of garden seeds in a liter jar and stick it in your freezer and be set for a decade+ of prepared.
No need to “buy new” each year just because the seed company tells you to.
Onion seeds keep most poorly. Typically one year. I’ve sprouted 10 year old onion seeds from the freezer. 16 year old lentils. (both with high germination rates, 85%-95% kind of range). I’d have tested longer term than that but haven’t been holding any that long!
So everyone who thinks they might need a garden “someday”: Get yourself a glass jar (canning jar, old mayo jar, old sauce jar) and stuff some seed packets in it in the freezer. Just make sure it’s dry when you put the top on. Moisture and heat are what cause seeds to fail. Keep them dry, cold, and in the dark.
We’ll be OK here in tropical Queensland. Plenty of fish, beef, various crops & of course very good wine.
That of course is if our very thick, stupid, moronic politicians don’t sell us down the river.
Speaking with a friend in Bahamas, the tropics were very cold in the 60’s, a period of cooling (check the low sunspot data) and The notice that in North America many cold weather records remain from the 60s.
My friend said it’s getting colder again, yet the Bahamian government insists that people keep increasing the height of their sea walls. The more the Bahamas does, the more money they get from the UN.
This financialization of society makes us neurotic. Some people change their opinions about climate change if they’re paid to do so.
Money is not my god. I hope to avoid the ensuing mass psychosis.
My friend said that in winters in the 60s they had to keep the kitchen oven open during dinner and then they dove into bed to keep warm.
I am visiting the Bahamas now and tourists I have met who have been visiting for over ten years around this time (ie.spring break) have never experienced it being so cold!