And prices keep going up

[Subduction Zone]

Wrong price? Your full of the usual b*******. No surprise there.

I know what the prices were and what the prices are now directly in my area, plus if you were actually attentive you would notice that those are estimates for which the prices are averaged.

Try again.

Your own article gave you the average price paid by the consumer and that is around $3.00 a dozen. I quoted it. The article was honest about that. But the per state cost used a different metric. And no, you do now "know" what prices are. You show that you are a terrible shopper at best since others have quoted prices from New York stores that show a wise shopper would pay far less than you claim to have.

 

[anna.]

I just left Kroger and my eyes popped at the price of eggs. 12 count for $3 and 18 count is $4.39 now! And that's just generic regular eggs!

Interesting look at the historical avg. cost of eggs:

Average Price: Eggs, Grade A, Large (Cost per Dozen) in U.S. City Average

Large white, Grade A chicken eggs, sold in a carton of a dozen. Includes organic, non-organic, cage free, free range, and traditional."

fred.stlouisfed.org

 

[Revoltingest]

That doesn't have anything to do with skilled or unskilled, though.

Read the whole post.

 

[Stevicus]

Read the whole post.

I did. I thought you were referring to people who were "goof fer nuthin....& worse (eg, thieves)."

Now that I think about it, I guess it would take some bit of skill to be a thief.

 

[Revoltingest]

I did. I thought you were referring to people who were "goof fer nuthin....& worse (eg, thieves)."

Now that I think about it, I guess it would take some bit of skill to be a thief.

If you'd been following the conversation
employees without skills are "good fer nuthin".
Stop bickering over a strained inference.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Your own article gave you the average price paid by the consumer and that is around $3.00 a dozen. I quoted it. The article was honest about that. But the per state cost used a different metric. And no, you do now "know" what prices are. You show that you are a terrible shopper at best since others have quoted prices from New York stores that show a wise shopper would pay far less than you claim to have.

Nope again like usual.

I have no choice on the prices in my area, and specials and deals don't count.

Like @Kathryn , I know the prices I'm looking at when I go to the store.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Your own article gave you the average price paid by the consumer and that is around $3.00 a dozen. I quoted it. The article was honest about that. But the per state cost used a different metric. And no, you do now "know" what prices are. You show that you are a terrible shopper at best since others have quoted prices from New York stores that show a wise shopper would pay far less than you claim to have.

Nope again like usual. I have no choice on the prices in my area and specials and deals don't count.

Like @Kathryn I know the prices I'm looking at when I go to the store.

 

[Stevicus]

If you'd been following the conversation
employees without skills are "good fer nuthin".
Stop bickering over a strained inference.

Was I bickering?

 

[Twilight Hue]

Are you feeling it yet?

Chapter 5 : Food Security — Special Report on Climate Change and Land
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SPECIAL REPORT: SPECIAL REPORT ON CLIMATE CHANGE AND LAND​

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The current food system (production, transport, processing, packaging, storage, retail, consumption, loss and waste) feeds the great majority of world population and supports the livelihoods of over 1 billion people. Since 1961, food supply per capita has increased more than 30%, accompanied by greater use of nitrogen fertilisers (increase of about 800%) and water resources for irrigation (increase of more than 100%). However, an estimated 821 million people are currently undernourished, 151 million children under five are stunted, 613 million women and girls aged 15 to 49 suffer from iron deficiency, and 2 billion adults are overweight or obese. The food system is under pressure from non-climate stressors (e.g., population and income growth, demand for animal-sourced products), and from climate change. These climate and non-climate stresses are impacting the four pillars of food security (availability, access, utilisation, and stability). {5.1.1, 5.1.2}
Observed climate change is already affecting food security through increasing temperatures, changing precipitation patterns, and greater frequency of some extreme events (high confidence). Studies that separate out climate change from other factors affecting crop yields have shown that yields of some crops (e.g., maize and wheat) in many lower-latitude regions have been affected negatively by observed climate changes, while in many higher-latitude regions, yields of some crops (e.g., maize, wheat, and sugar beets) have been affected positively over recent decades. Warming compounded by drying has caused large negative effects on yields in parts of the Mediterranean. Based on indigenous and local knowledge (ILK), climate change is affecting food security in drylands, particularly those in Africa, and high mountain regions of Asia and South America. {5.2.2}
Food security will be increasingly affected by projected future climate change (high confidence). Across Shared Socio-economic Pathways (SSPs) 1, 2, and 3, global crop and economic models projected a 1–29% cereal price increase in 2050 due to climate change (RCP 6.0), which would impact consumers globally through higher food prices; regional effects will vary (high confidence). Low-income consumers are particularly at risk, with models projecting increases of 1–183 million additional people at risk of hunger across the SSPs compared to a no climate change scenario (high confidence). While increased CO2 is projected to be beneficial for crop productivity at lower temperature increases, it is projected to lower nutritional quality (high confidence) (e.g., wheat grown at 546–586 ppm CO2 has 5.9–12.7% less protein, 3.7–6.5% less zinc, and 5.2–7.5% less iron). Distributions of pests and diseases will change, affecting production negatively in many regions (high confidence). Given increasing extreme events and interconnectedness, risks of food system disruptions are growing (high confidence). {5.2.3, 5.2.4}

Nope.

In fact the nutcase climate change activism makes it worse , not better.

The Biden Administration Will Pay Farmers More Money Not to Farm

The goal is to add 4 million acres of farmland to the Conservation Reserve Program, which takes land out of production to blunt agriculture’s environmental impact.

www.governing.com

 

[sayak83]

Nope.

In fact the nutcase climate change activism makes it worse , not better.

The Biden Administration Will Pay Farmers More Money Not to Farm

The goal is to add 4 million acres of farmland to the Conservation Reserve Program, which takes land out of production to blunt agriculture’s environmental impact.

www.governing.com

Keeping marginal lands fallow is absolutely essential to keep land productivity and preserving the ecosystem on which farming depends. The industrialized mono cultures are an absolute disaster to long term land productivity as they deplete soils rapidly.
Excellent initiative. Should be expanded rapidly. But it won't be enough in face of climate change induced extremes.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Keeping marginal lands fallow is absolutely essential to keep land productivity and preserving the ecosystem on which farming depends. The industrialized mono cultures are an absolute disaster to long term land productivity as they deplete soils rapidly.
Excellent initiative. Should be expanded rapidly. But it won't be enough in face of climate change induced extremes.

I don't disagree as I know the importance of field rotation but should note it does impact food prices and creates dependency on other sources to make up the deficit which makes it a double economic hit.

 

[Kathryn]

I don't disagree as I know the importance of field rotation but should note it does impact food prices and creates dependency on other sources to make up the deficit.

Is that person talking about crop or field rotation though?

 

[Twilight Hue]

I

Is that person talking about crop or field rotation though?

Well if it's under the premise of the ecosystem/climate, my thought was to go with field rotation.

 

[sayak83]

I don't disagree as I know the importance of field rotation but should note it does impact food prices and creates dependency on other sources to make up the deficit which makes it a double economic hit.

There are much better ways to improve effective food availability than tilling every inch of land 365 days till it becomes a desert. Like reducing food wastage
Food Waste FAQs

 

[Kathryn]

Thankfully I have very little food wastage! I mean, that I am in charge of. What other people do is on them, I guess. But not on me for sure!

 

[sayak83]

Thankfully I have very little food wastage! I mean, that I am in charge of. What other people do is on them, I guess. But not on me for sure!

And it's getting worse. People need to be educated, and to not buy cartons of perishable food, just what you need that day
New Data Shows US Food Waste Is Getting Worse

 

[Twilight Hue]

There are much better ways to improve effective food availability than tilling every inch of land 365 days till it becomes a desert. Like reducing food wastage
Food Waste FAQs

I would say most farmers are already aware of that and they rotate their fields naturally either by letting them go fallow or burning them.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Nope again like usual.

I have no choice on the prices in my area, and specials and deals don't count.

Like @Kathryn , I know the prices I'm looking at when I go to the store.

Of course specials and deals count. That is part of the average price that consumers pay be definition. And you have only one store to go to and they carry only one type of eggs? Where on Earth do you live? There are at least four brands of eggs in my store and there are variations within the brands.

 

[Subduction Zone]

Is that person talking about crop or field rotation though?

I hope the former. It takes one heck of a big tractor to rotate a field.

 

[Subduction Zone]

I would say most farmers are already aware of that and they rotate their fields naturally either by letting them go fallow or burning them.

Okay, you appear to be a city boy. Crop rotation is when crops are altered over the years. Soybeans and other legumes naturally add nitrogen to the soil. Corn and wheat tend to remove it. So instead of using man made fertilizers all of the time they will plant soybeans one year and corn the next. Other crops can be used to. Fields are too valuable to lay fallow. In the past the government would pay small farmers to do that every few years. It was called the "Soil Bank" program. But that was back when I was young.