American Journal: Government policies have crippled farmers

“The current situation of farming families is a reflection of the energy situation in our country: a mechanism of highly efficient and abundant production that is under the influence of the wrong policies of the government and leads to crisis and shortage,” the American media wrote in an article by Kevin Stocklin, IRNA reported on Wednesday. given.

Farmers are adept at adapting and managing price fluctuations and climate change, but they say the high cost of inflation from gasoline and chemical fertilizers has had a very serious impact. This increase in prices will not only lead to an increase in the price of goods in grocery stores, but can also have consequences in the coming years.

“The crisis facing American farmers today is primarily due to the fossil fuel crisis,” the report added. President Joe Biden’s administration opposes fossil fuels, and the decline in US oil production has been exacerbated by shortages abroad.

Russia is the world’s third largest oil producer after the United States and Saudi Arabia. It is also the largest producer of chemical fertilizers as oil derivatives. Although Americans do not produce chemical fertilizers, it is the third largest importer of this product. Thus, American farmers are exposed to high world prices at the same time as the sharp decline in chemical fertilizers on the world stage.

Western sanctions have eliminated the main source of chemical fertilizer following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. China, a major exporter of chemical fertilizers, also stopped exporting last October. It typically takes five years to build new chemical fertilizer plants, but disruptions in the supply chain and increased government regulation are slowing the process, while factories also need fuel to produce.

Despite the inflation crisis, the Biden government continues to pursue a green energy agenda, halting the production of fossil fuels to help generate wind and solar energy.

Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm has called for rising oil prices to shift to wind and solar energy and to “produce clean energy domestically”.

Samantha Power, director of the United States Agency for International Development, said that the problem of fertilizer prices could be solved by “natural means such as fertilizer and compost (plant fertilizer)” and that this process could lead to a transition (from fertilizer to compost), which in any case Farmers, accelerate. Never let a crisis be wasted.

Despite the dream of a future in which carbon consumption is reduced to zero, fossil fuels are a major component of food production today. Farmers use large quantities of diesel fuel and chemical fertilizers, and policies that shorten such supplies undermine Americans’ ability to produce food for themselves.

While electric tractors are in development, they are not yet available to a wide range of farmers and are not affordable. In the case of electricity generation and the power grid, pressures to stop using fossil fuels have reduced an essential source of energy without alternative energy sources such as wind and solar energy being able to fill the gap.

In the midst of the food crisis at the height of the Corona epidemic, many leading Americans ignored the issue and even criticized uneducated Americans for their abundance. Do not object to shortages in stores and food supply chains, the Washington Post reported.

The author of this article even mocked American consumers, saying that they are not used to hardships.

US Senator Bernie Sanders also said he had no problem with the food shopping queues he often saw in the former Soviet Union. The rich get food and the poor starve to death.

At the same time, White House spokesman Jen Saki downplayed the crisis.

While people questioned the government for not anticipating such a crisis, Gen. Saki ridiculed the crisis, reducing it to a “treadmill delay tragedy.”

Jackie Budin, a Texas farmer and rancher, told the Conservative newspaper that he was among those who could not afford to fertilize their farms.

However, he said he believed that US farmland could meet food needs, and that if food shortages occurred, the government was to blame and that was not normal.

Orman, another American farmer, has stressed the need for food independence in the United States, calling it a national security issue.

He said if a country could not provide for itself, it could not protect itself.

Referring to the milk shortage crisis in the United States, which posed challenges to the Biden administration, Orman said it was “very frightening” that we had to procure milk powder in Germany.