Is Our Food Supply Threatened by Diminishing Corn Yields?

Just when you thought the economic news couldn't get any worse, a lower-than-expected corn crop yield is more than likely going to keep corn prices at another all-time high for the next year.

And that just means ever-increasing food prices across the board.

To understand why the price of corn is such a huge influence on the price of groceries, you have to understand that nearly everything - from meat, to cereal, to the gas in your car - all of it depends on corn in one form or another.

And because corn has surged in price to more than $8 a bushel (an increase of 74% since August 2010), farmers have concentrated on growing it instead of wheat and soybeans in order to maximize the return on their investment (and who can blame them?).

Lower supplies of wheat and soybeans have also driven the prices of groceries up, and struggling families are really feeling the emptiness of their wallets when it comes to their grocery purchasing power.

Top economists are predicting that retail food prices will rise an additional 4% next year, on top of the 4% rise in cost this year. It doesn't help that we've had record heat waves and droughts as well, decimating crops across the country.

But let's face it, food shortages and famines have been part and parcel of the human experience since time began, haven't they? Well, yes they have... but not for this country. In fact, for quite a while food shortages and hunger have been foreign concepts to most of our people. Even the poorest among us have much more than the poor of other countries.

But there are warning signs looming, portents that show us that food shortages are not just about to occur... in some ways they're being carefully orchestrated by a few select elitists and corporations who desire nothing more than total control over our lives.

And in order to prepare for this looming food shortage, we must begin by looking at the past. It's only through studying the past--picking up patterns that go back in history--that we can begin to see those same patterns emerging and coalescing within our modern world.

For instance, the fall of the Roman Empire produced a famine which swept across the land and reduced the population of the city of Rome by 90% over a 400-year period. The similarity between ancient Rome and modern America isn't a new subject; however, there are a few precursors to consider when comparing the two civilizations in terms of setting the stage for food shortages and famines.

For instance, the Roman government spent more than it could afford. (Does this sound familiar?) The military was over-extended. (Our military is in Afghanistan, Libya, and posts around the world...) Weak and corrupt leaders had overtaken the seat of government (this could be a statement for our predicament today!). And Rome was plagued by constant infighting... (Red states, Blue states... liberal, conservative... progressives, constitutionalists).

But most startling of all, Rome increasingly became an empire of heavy urban centers. In America today, only about 2% of the population actually works the land. Our age of industrialization has stripped the countryside of farmers and small family farms, creating an influx of people into our larger cities, and replacing those farmers with corporate giants who utilize improper farming methods (planting the same plants in the same fields, year after year...), who rely on chemical pesticides, herbicides, fertilizers, and most importantly, genetic manipulation to produce their nutrient-deficient crops, all which are beginning to result in fewer and fewer adequate crop yields.

That's right - the signs are all around us. But instead of telling you to research all this yourself, let me tell you about an exciting book from Solutions From Science, one that Alex Jones and others are recommending as a "must-read" for those in the prepper community. It's called Rising Prices Empty Shelves, and it's a 173-page volume packed full of those portents and patterns that I spoke to you about.

This book is broken up into four sections. Parts one and two cover the history and cause of famines. History repeats itself, and as a wise man once said, "those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." Once you're aware of those patterns that triggered food shortages in the past, you'll become a modern Nostradamus in predicting those famine cycles today.

Part three of the book details the deadliest modern threats to our food supply. Those threats include our very own government, Big Ag, and Big Pharma. All these have arisen in the last 60 years.

And in part four, you're given specific key steps to protect you and your family from the coming food crisis.

For instance, you'll learn:

• The most dangerous people that you'll need to protect your children from during a mass famine... and they're not bandits, gangs, soldiers, or even your neighbors.
• The seven key factors that caused the decline and fall of the Roman Empire... and which ones have occurred in the United States, and which ones are about to happen.
• The one thing that government has actually paid $1.3 billion dollars to stop production of since 1914, and the results of that campaign that has reduced this valuable resource by 94%!

How are you going to handle the coming food shortages and the riots coming our way, those same riots that are already beginning to occur across the globe? The economy is not getting better. The Fed strategy of quantitative easing and printing more money is making us fiscally weaker and weaker. In fact, our unemployment rates and debt ratios are such not seen since the Great Depression and World War II!

In Rising Prices Empty Shelves you'll learn exactly what you need to prepare for a food crisis. You'll learn how to develop a "survival network" of trusted, loyal, and reliable people to support each other during the coming food shortages. You'll learn how much food you must stockpile, how often to rotate supplies, the way to begin your own "stealth" garden, one that you will have to hide from looters and thieves... and possibly your own government.

How much potable water do you need? What kind of seeds should you buy? What types of caches should you be stocking? And in a worst case scenario... how do you live off the land, the way our ancestors did a century ago? Are you prepared to defend yourself? What mistakes should you avoid in order to keep your emergency supplies?

How do you stay off the radar?

These and many other questions are answered in Rising Prices Empty Shelves. But don't delay purchasing this book much longer. Civilization has become increasingly unstable. We have lived with a veneer of civility these last 75 years, but that veneer is being stripped away even at this writing, and what's left is an animal mob mentality of angry people, resorting to any methods they can, to vent that anger and rage toward a system that is failing them moment by moment.

It's imperative that you protect your family and loved ones from the inevitable break-down in society that is just around the corner. Click Here to order your copy of Rising Prices Empty Shelves today, and prepare yourself and your family for the coming food crisis that is threatening to engulf our country.

Sincerely,

The Team of Off the Grid News

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