The looming food crisis is far more complex than just fertilizer shortages. This video uncovers the overlooked agricultural threats that could decimate global crop yields and bring unprecedented challenges to our food supply. Discover the hidden factors at play.
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So talk to us about the main factors that are coming on that that are sort of inbound factors. I mean, we know about fertilizer out of the Persian Gulf, but give us your breakdown of of what that means. I mean, you know, for a few weeks the fertilizer shipments still arrived after the war started. But those days are long gone now, aren't they? Yeah, they are. And uh chemicals as well. And you know, everybody's talking on the fertilizer, but what about the insecticides and the herbicides and fungicides? Yeah. You know, the insects are going to have the best eating year they've had in a century. There's nothing to stop them. And you know, once plants get weakened, they send out that vibrational signal that they're weak. And then the insects just come in because I got a friend down in New Mexico, and he's saying the locust and the grasshoppers down there are just like nothing they've ever seen before. Eating through everything. Really? That's just because there's extra precipitation, but you know, once these things start getting to the crop lands, there's no way to stop them with the traditional methods of insecticides. Herbicides. ...