With the national crop failure this summer due to the extended severe drought, I have been thinking about how to survive the coming huge price increases for foodstuffs. First, the beef cattle ranchers are quickly selling off their stock to avoid the higher grain prices, This means while beef prices may not rise in the next couple months (and some may actually get cheaper while the supply is large) the price leap will occur, probably late this autumn or in the early winter. So I plan to stock my freezer with meat in the next few weeks and months. As for everything else, canned foods can be bought and stored, but fresh vegetables are not going to jump in price that much anyway. Pasta prices will increase, and you can store it. Load up. Our food prices will increase at least 20 percent across the board. Some are saying maybe even up to 50 percent. Chicken can be bought frozen and stored. (Chickens eat corn. The corn crop is devastated.) Other than that, go fishing.

I nearly forgot, grain is used to make beer and whiskey. Stock up.


Little Hobster decides it is time to dine with the big cats?