Look to pay even more for basic staples - from Reuters:
'Off the charts' chemical shortages hit U.S. farms
U.S. farmers have cut back on using common weedkillers, hunted for substitutes to popular fungicides and changed planting plans over persistent shortages of agricultural chemicals that threaten to trim harvests.
Spraying smaller volumes of herbicides and turning to less-effective fungicides increase the risk for weeds and diseases to dent crop production at a time when global grain supplies are already tight because the Ukraine war is reducing the country's exports.
Ukraine is the narrative but this problem was happening long long before there was ever a rumble from over there.
Their lack of exports has nothing to do on the continuous supply-chain problems we have been having here for the last two years.
Interviews with more than a dozen chemical dealers, manufacturers, farmers and weed specialists showed shortages disrupted U.S. growers' production strategies and raised their costs.
Shawn Inman, owner of distributor Spinner Ag Incorporated in Zionsville, Indiana, said supplies are the tightest in his 24-year career.
"This is off the charts," Inman said. "Everything was delayed, delayed, delayed."
Supply chains. Ukrainian exports are just a band-aid. Not the reason. A convenient excuse that fits the narrative.
And it is not just us - London Daily Mail:
UN chief warns of 'catastrophe' from global food shortage
The head of the United Nations warned Friday that the world faces "catastrophe" because of the growing shortage of food around the globe.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the war in Ukraine has added to the disruptions caused by climate change, the coronavirus pandemic and inequality to produce an "unprecedented global hunger crisis" already affecting hundreds of millions of people.
"There is a real risk that multiple famines will be declared in 2022," he said in a video message to officials from dozens of rich and developing countries gathered in Berlin. "And 2023 could be even worse."
Guterres noted that harvests across Asia, Africa and the Americas will take a hit as farmers around the world struggle to cope with rising fertilizer and energy prices.
"This year´s food access issues could become next year´s global food shortage," he said. "No country will be immune to the social and economic repercussions of such a catastrophe."
More narrative - hitting all the talking points: Ukraine, climate change, global pandemic and inequality. The high energy prices are a simple cause - you shut down your reliable baseload sources and blew your budget on pie-in-the-sky unicorn farts: AKA renewable alternative energy. Should have been retrofitting your existing power plants for cleaner emissions and building nuclear. Instead? They spent it all on feel-good garbage.
All of the other talking points are just social justice activism - a few loud voices with no basis in reality.
And We The People (and the rest of the world) get to reap the benefits of your wisdom.
Rope. Tree. Some assembly required...
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