Today the lovely Mrs_Bob was asking me about tilling the garden. We are 'hit and miss' gardeners. Used to garden over an acre. But about 8 or 9 years ago we went on a long walk across Spain and were gone for close to 2 months. Obviously didn't garden at all that year because we were gone. But that also ended our tradition of gardening. We have some raised beds, and some years we plant those. Other years we don't bother. Apparently we are, if I am to read her mind correctly, going to resurrect the raised bed garden this year.
Just a coincidence that I saw this story today. People are taking control of their food supplies. Possibly because of EGG prices. Possibly because of ultra-processed foods. Possibly because of a lot of factors like trying to eat healthy again.
ZeroHedge covers the story:
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Just a coincidence that I saw this story today. People are taking control of their food supplies. Possibly because of EGG prices. Possibly because of ultra-processed foods. Possibly because of a lot of factors like trying to eat healthy again.
ZeroHedge covers the story:
"Take Control Of Their Food Supply": Tractor Supply CEO Says Backyard Chicken Demand Skyrockets | ZeroHedge
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"Take Control Of Their Food Supply": Tractor Supply CEO Says Backyard Chicken Demand Skyrockets
President Trump's swift action to combat soaring egg prices, caused by the Biden-Harris regime's mass culling of egg-laying hens just before he took office, has been nothing short of spectacular.
Egg prices have since collapsed, forcing Democratic strategists to abandon their propaganda warfare efforts with corrupt leftist corporate media to blame "egg-flation" on Trump when, in reality, it was a crisis of Biden's making through improper culling practices and no countermeasures to offset loss production. It's almost as if the prior administration wanted consumers to feel pocketbook pain.
Trump saves the day.
Earlier this year, as egg prices spiked to record highs during the tail end of the Northern Hemisphere's winter season, we urged readers to purchase backyard chicken coops and take control of their own food supply chains:
- Time To Build Backyard Chicken Coop As Wholesale Egg Prices Hit New Record Highs
- Time For A Backyard Chicken Coop? Supermarket Egg Prices Soaring Once-Again
Months later, with the latest USDA retail egg prices down 62% from record highs of more than $8 per dozen, Tractor Supply CEO Hal Lawton confirmed to investors on an earnings call this week that the nationwide egg shortage sparked an unbelievable surge in chick demand at stores nationwide.
Here's more from Bloomberg:
Mizuho Securities Director David Bellinger wrote in a note earlier this month that 7 million to 8 million of Tractor Supply's loyalty members now own chickens.
In return, Lawton noted that Tractor Supply customers securing their own backyard chicken supply chains drive more recurring trips to store locations.
"Chick days is like an annuity for Tractor Supply as birds typically live five to seven years," Lawton said, adding, "One chicken can eat over 75 pounds of feed a year, which keeps customers coming back again and again."
A broader theme is unfolding within the "Make America Healthy Movement"—Americans are being encouraged to source their food from local farms or, in some cases, as with chickens, to build backyard coops and plant 'America First' gardens to break free from the toxic food supply chain controlled by the corrupt processed foods industrial complex.
