The July 2022 Cattle and Livestock Slaughter reports confirm that drought over the last two years has quickened the liquidation of beef cattle across the western and southern plains in the United States. In June 2021, I published “A Drought Tipping Point and...
I did not anticipate an addition to Part 1 so quickly, which covered plunging consumer sentiment, declining consumption, scarcity inflation, and waning GDP. Unfortunately, recession signals are popping up so fast and furious that it’s best to ink them before they...
The extensive global network of shipping ports, containers, transnational vessels, rail freight, and trucking that transports the supply chain of commodities and finished products around the world is in a scrambled mess. While bottlenecks remain and the cost of...
A majority of city dwellers probably take for granted the supply chain responsible for farm-to-table food available at the local grocery store, and that process is not rocket science. A prolonged drought takes its toll on the soil as plants struggle to bloom or don’t...
The climate is definitely changing, as it always does, but how much is attributable to anthropogenic reasons is open to debate. One thing is for sure: that big ball of fire in the sky known as our sun is proven to be a huge factor. To drive the point home, here is an...