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Also, this was posted a few years ago. The information in this pdf (page 5) is about the agricultural production capacity of US states. At the present time, Texas is one of the few states that has a positive balance of trade and it probably has the largest per capita positive balance of trade of any...

https://i.postimg.cc/8PSZCYNw/veg-0.jpg Probably another good proxy for a quick judge of general growing conditions would be to look at corn yields. So in the Blackland Prairie area of Texas where I am now, corn yields are OK but not great. It can be seen from the USDA corn yield map that there are...

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Meantime, billionaires will repeat the slogan that people have never had it so good and the media will mindlessly quote it.

No one will believe it.

Enter Trump.

Or, more accurately, the movement that Trump represents.

A graph of food cost as a percentage of income filters out most of the noise. Probably more or less inflation wouldn't change it much, as incomes won't keep up with food costs regardless, or go down faster than food costs go down, if that were to be the case. Some might question whether food quality...

It’s Been 30 Years Since Food Ate Up This Much of Your Income By Jesse Newman and Heather Haddon Updated Feb. 21, 2024 4:47 pm ET The last time Americans spent this much of their money on food, George H.W. Bush was in office, “Terminator 2: Judgment Day” was in theaters and C+C Music Factory was ro...

Finally, this week I took note of the following from the Archdruid: balowulf says: May 22, 2024 at 10:29 am Hi JMG, I’d like to follow-up on a post of yours from 2020 (The Arc of our Future): “So what does the future look like? In some ways, it’s a far less dismal prospect over the short term than I...

https://i.postimg.cc/8PSZCYNw/veg-0.jpg My preference is to be in an area that is still amenable to growing vegetables, but also where the population density has thinned out considerably. That's approximately near the red line below as precipitation also thins out moving west. So these areas aren't...

I'm in the Blackland Prairie area of East/Central Texas.

Any recommendations on which countries Americans can escape to? This Forum concluded long ago that staying domestically is best. Choose your location. There's many good places. Navigator's book explains clearly and the Dark Age Hovel Higg has also made very compelling choices. This conversation jus...

As we've discussed several times (this is for anyone else) biosolids should be avoided (PFAS/PFOS and other nasty contaminants). There are biosolids in bags labeled potting soil. Executive Summary Many home gardeners buy compost or commercial soil amendments to enhance soil nutrition. But new tests...