If you think food shortages won’t impact your household, here’s the opening of Ford Turner’s report at mcall (Morning Call Capitol) – about fuel shortages . . . in Pennsylvania:
A Lehigh County farmer recently
called Kyle Kotzmoyer and said something like “I’ve got a tractor hooked up to
my corn planter out here, no diesel fuel, and I can’t afford to get any.”
Kotzmoyer, who recalled the
conversation Tuesday, said he responded to the request for advice with a joke.
That’s about all he could do, he
said, because the crushing reality of record diesel fuel prices is pushing
farmers to the brink and may affect food availability.
“We have reached that point to
where it is very close to being a sinking ship,” Kotzmoyer, a legislative
affairs specialist for the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, testified to state
lawmakers Tuesday. “We are teetering on the edge right now.”
His appearance came in the third
hearing on soaring inflation held by the House Republican Policy Committee.
The overall testimony suggested the
dire farm situation will exacerbate the rate of already steep food price
increases. The federal government reported last week that food prices in May
were 10.1% higher than a year earlier, with the rate of increase gaining speed. . . .
Full report is here.
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