(Natural News) Right now, more than 20 bulk carriers loaded with corn from the United States are en route to China, which continues to rely heavily and almost exclusively on our own Midwestern states for the crop. The first-ever carrier filled with Brazilian corn, however, also just arrived in Singapore for transfer into China – […]

(Natural News) Farmers who grow cucumbers in South Carolina experience huge crop losses every year due to a plant disease called downy mildew. Fortunately, researchers from Clemson University have discovered that planting cucumbers early can reduce growers’ losses from downy mildew to almost zero. What is downy mildew? Downy mildew is an oomycete or water mold that […]

(Natural News) Even though city dwellers lack the land for growing a garden, they can still grow food crops for sustenance – thanks to container or bucket gardening. All they need is a good container and a sunny deck or balcony for year-round crops. Growing crops at home also produces harvests far superior in freshness, flavor […]

(Natural News) Is America in the throes of a national food security crisis? According to fourth-generation dairy farmer Stephanie Nash of Nash Family Creamery in Chapel Hill, Tenn., the country is certainly headed that way. “I definitely think we have a food security threat,” Nash, a farmer and agriculture advocate, told Fox News. “I believe […]

(Natural News) “Adapt 2030” channel creator and producer David DuByne believes food production will be affected by temperature changes caused by a huge volcanic eruption in Tonga early this year. “These temperature deltas, it’s cooling here, it’s cooling there. It’s cooling everywhere [in] Southern Hemisphere. So, we shall see some cooling happening to the Northern Hemisphere delayed […]

(Natural News) Have you noticed all the reports this year of “mass culling” of millions of chickens and turkeys? The corporate media blames it on “avian influenza” that’s acquired from “wild birds” flying across the country, they claim. Because of these wild birds, tens of millions of chickens and turkeys have to be slaughtered, they […]

(Natural News) Florida’s orange groves were already facing problems this year, suffering from a disease condition known as “citrus greening,” but now farmers are going to have to battle Mother Nature. As a massive cold front sweeps through the Midwest, it threatens to dip deep into the Sunshine State and cause massive freeze damage to […]

(Natural News) In spite of President Joe Biden’s claim that inflation is declining, vegetable prices in the U.S. increased by a whopping 38 percent in November. The Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) stated the producer price index (PPI) for vegetable prices jumped 38.1 percent from October to November, up a total of 80.6 percent over […]

(Natural News) An Australian grocer limited the number of frozen French fries customers can purchase per transaction due to a shortage of potatoes. Coles Group Ltd., Australia’s second-largest supermarket chain, announced the limits in a statement on its website. According to the statement, “a temporary purchase limit of two items per transaction” will apply to its […]

(Natural News) First, they came for the oil, now they’re coming for the cows. Environmentalists have no shame or sense and farmers around the world are, forget the pitchforks, “setting hay bales ablaze and dumping manure on motorways,” report April Roach, Tracy Withers, Jen Skerritt, and Agnieszka de Sousa for Bloomberg. (Article by Doug French republished from Mises.org) Never mind that […]