From all angles the world’s food systems are being battered, bruised, and dismantled at a fast pace. From trade disruptions and restrictions levied against Russia for their conflict with the Ukraine, to dozens of food processing and fertilizer plants burning down, and international wheat crops being destroyed – now the U.S.’ largest train company had decided to curtail shipments of fertilizers ahead of the planting season.
The following report is by Leo Hohmann, published on April 16th:
CF Industries, the nation’s largest manufacturer of fertilizers, is warning its customers that fertilizer shipments will be delayed and may not reach farmers in time for the critical spring planting season because of a move by Union Pacific Railroad to limit the volume on private boxcars carried by its rail lines.
The railroad company ordered CF Industries and 29 other shippers cut their volume by 20 percent. Union Pacific says the reductions are needed to reduce congestion, but CF Industries said it would ask federal regulators to intervene and end the railroad restrictions.
Why Union Pacific would single out the nation’s largest fertilizer producer just as it is trying to get its product to farmers in time for spring planting is suspicious, to say the least.
Mike Adams is reporting that rail carriers are also partially halting transportation of livestock feed grain, potentially forcing farmers to slaughter their cows and chickens if they can’t get enough grain to feed them. This would further drive up prices of dairy products such as milk, eggs, yogurt, etc.
The railroad-mandated shipping reductions not only means shipping delays for farmers but CF Industries said it would be unable to accept new orders involving Union Pacific rail transportation for the foreseeable future.
CF Industries announced its dire predicament April 14 on its website. This disruption in the delivery of fertilizers comes at a time of steadily escalating food prices at grocery stores nationwide due to supply chain disruptions, War between Russia and Ukraine, China hording global grain supplies, weather-related crop failures and other issues, all adding up to a perfect storm for global famine.
Unless American farmers produce a bumper crop this fall, the rampant food price inflation will continue to intensify, driving prices up even faster and leading to more shortages on the store shelves heading into late 2022 and 2023.
CF Industries ships to customers via Union Pacific rail lines primarily from its Donaldsonville Complex in Louisiana and its Port Neal Complex in Iowa. The rail lines serve key agricultural states in America’s heartland, including Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska and Texas, as well as California.
Products that will be affected include nitrogen fertilizers such as urea and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) as well as diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), an emissions control product required for diesel trucks.
CF Industries is the largest producer of urea, UAN and DEF in North America, and its Donaldsonville Complex is the largest single production facility for the products in North America.
Tony Will, president and chief executive of CF Industries, summed up the direness of the situation in a press release reproduced below:
The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers. Not only will fertilizer be delayed by these shipping restrictions, but additional fertilizer needed to complete spring applications may be unable to reach farmers at all. By placing this arbitrary restriction on just a handful of shippers, Union Pacific is jeopardizing farmers’ harvests and increasing the cost of food for consumers.
On Friday, April 8, Union Pacific informed CF Industries without advance notice that it was mandating certain shippers to reduce the volume of private cars on its railroad effective immediately. The Company was told to reduce its shipments by nearly 20 percent.
CF Industries believes it will still be able to fulfill delivery of product already contracted for rail shipment to Union Pacific destinations, albeit with likely delays. However, because Union Pacific has told the company that noncompliance will result in the embargo of its facilities by the railroad, CF Industries may not have available shipping capacity to take new rail orders involving Union Pacific rail lines to meet late season demand for fertilizer.
The application of nitrogen fertilizer is critical to maximizing crop yields. If farmers are unable to secure all the nitrogen fertilizer that they require in the current season because of supply chain disruptions such as rail shipping restrictions, the Company expects yield will be lower. This will likely extend the timeline to replenish global grains stocks. Low global grains stocks continue to support high front month and forward prices for nitrogen-consuming crops, which has contributed to higher food prices.
CF Industries intends to engage directly with the federal government to ask that fertilizer shipments be prioritized so that spring planting is not adversely impacted.
CF Industries’ North American manufacturing network continues to produce at a high rate to meet the needs of customers, farmers and consumers. We urge the federal government to take action to remove these Union Pacific rail shipment restrictions to ensure this vital fertilizer will be able to reach U.S. farmers when and where they need it.
Said Will
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From every angle deliberate famine is being created: that is undeniable at this stage in the game. Most of these fertilizers are very toxic and poisonous, and so this will effect the yields of the conventional grown and processed foods at the stores – that you should be avoiding anyways if you want to maintain optimal health at least.
Nevertheless, the shortages are really going to be felt this summer, and worsening as we head into the fall season; on top of all other shenanigans that will be created in the months to come.
[17] Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Behold, I will send upon them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and will make them like vile figs, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil. [18] And I will persecute them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be removed to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse, and an astonishment, and an hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them: [19] Because they have not hearkened to my words, saith the LORD, which I sent unto them by my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them; but ye would not hear, saith the LORD.Jeremiah 29:17-19
[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).
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A string of fires at recycling plants, the fires moved to something new.
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The diesel exhaust fluid is significant also given that it’s hard on diesel engines to run without it. Jeff Prather reported on this as well, but I’m never sure with him as he relies on Mike Adams a lot, & Mike has a tendency to hyperbolize and exaggerate everything for the radical Catholic ‘right’ newagers & their ‘great awakening’.
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The diesel exhaust fluid angle is either newly reported, or I missed it when first reported on…& that’s a distinct possibility since this stuff comes so fast. My husband, the former trucker & material handling tech: electric, diesel and propane/natural gas filled me in on that one.
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If this is so, then this railroad order is crafted & targeted to affect not only rail delivery, but also seeking to hinder the trucking delivery end of things, on top of ridiculous fuel prices, which means inflated prices & limiting availability of all commodities. No doubt strategized & by design. These antichrist people are so evil. They’ve been pushing for limited private & independent transportation, & a move back to government subsidized and monopolized mass public transportation for a long time. Not to mention all the rest going on. No doubt some deal-making going on for ‘clean’, ‘green’, and ‘sustainable’ new deal cushy crony contracts for the insiders and ‘survivors’.
[KJV 1611] Isa 14:12 How art thou fallen from heauen, O Lucifer, sonne of the morning? how art thou cut downe to the ground, WHICH DIDST WEAKEN THE NATIONS?
[KJV 1611] Isa 14:17 THAT MADE THE WORLD AS A WILDERNESSE, AND DESTROYED THE CITIES thereof that opened not the house of his prisoners?