hawgrider
10-15-2015, 07:08 AM
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Apparently the United States has no national grain reserves anymore, none at all.
From a preparedness standpoint, if the supply chains of agricultural distribution become interrupted (or the crop cycle itself), there is little or no buffer for Americans to put bread on the table (or without significant cost).
The United States government once held vast grain reserves in silos across the country. Today our national grain reserves have apparently vanished, primarily due to deregulated global markets and globalization, and the 1996 abolishment of our national system of holding grain in reserve – which was gradually depleted until 2008, when the USDA decided to convert all of what was left into its dollar equivalent.
In other words, http://modernsurvivalblog.com/preps/the-us-national-grain-reserves-are-apparently-gone/#more-42464
Apparently the United States has no national grain reserves anymore, none at all.
From a preparedness standpoint, if the supply chains of agricultural distribution become interrupted (or the crop cycle itself), there is little or no buffer for Americans to put bread on the table (or without significant cost).
The United States government once held vast grain reserves in silos across the country. Today our national grain reserves have apparently vanished, primarily due to deregulated global markets and globalization, and the 1996 abolishment of our national system of holding grain in reserve – which was gradually depleted until 2008, when the USDA decided to convert all of what was left into its dollar equivalent.
In other words, http://modernsurvivalblog.com/preps/the-us-national-grain-reserves-are-apparently-gone/#more-42464