Food for thought! Union Pacific restricts shipment on fertilizer.
Once again Atlas Shrugged is no longer fiction.
Is Jim Tagert running Union Pacific?
Union Pacific's plan to begin metering traffic as of today will curtail fertilizer shipments and put crops at risk, a major fertilizer producer says. “The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers,” CF Industries CEO Tony Will said in a statement on Thursday.7 days ago
According to Josh Linville, fertilizer director for StoneX Financial, Union Pacific was behind on its own shipments, leading up to the restrictions on private rail cars such as CFI’s, to catch up.
"Not only will fertilizer be delayed by these shipping restrictions, but additional fertilizer needed to complete spring applications may be unable to reach farmers at all,” Will said. “By placing this arbitrary restriction on just a handful of shippers, Union Pacific is jeopardizing farmers' harvests and increasing the cost of food for consumers."
“This really hurts fertilizer shipments as companies such as CFI rely on their own rail cars to move product. Logistics were already going to be tough this spring, this makes that situation worse,” Linville added.
Is Jim Tagert running Union Pacific?
Union Pacific's plan to begin metering traffic as of today will curtail fertilizer shipments and put crops at risk, a major fertilizer producer says. “The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers,” CF Industries CEO Tony Will said in a statement on Thursday.7 days ago
According to Josh Linville, fertilizer director for StoneX Financial, Union Pacific was behind on its own shipments, leading up to the restrictions on private rail cars such as CFI’s, to catch up.
"Not only will fertilizer be delayed by these shipping restrictions, but additional fertilizer needed to complete spring applications may be unable to reach farmers at all,” Will said. “By placing this arbitrary restriction on just a handful of shippers, Union Pacific is jeopardizing farmers' harvests and increasing the cost of food for consumers."
“This really hurts fertilizer shipments as companies such as CFI rely on their own rail cars to move product. Logistics were already going to be tough this spring, this makes that situation worse,” Linville added.
Rudolf Starkermann , if I am not mistaken.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2022...
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Globalist investment company BlackRock is the largest asset management company on the planet with over $9 trillion in assets. They and Vanguard Group (You know the Vanguard that is part of trying to block Elon Musk from buying Twitter) are the biggest shareholders of CF Industries Holdings Inc mentioned in this article.
BlackRock and Vanguard are also the largest shareholders of the Union Pacific railroad...
BlackRock is buying up tens of thousands of single family dwelling homes in America. Paying up to 20% more buying up entire new neighborhood developments making them Single Family Rentals. Also pricing homes out of the reach of many. BlackRock a leading proponent of the Global Reset is doing this. They're Federal Reserve Funded doing this...your tax dollars...
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He needs a cobra for a necktie.
I use a cobra-snake for a necktie
I got a brand new house on the roadside
Made from rattlesnake hide
The first verse of one of my all-time favorite Bo Diddley songs…thanking you for the reference to it and making me recall the lyrics..interesting that he references a house in it, as well
I am at a loss for words. How much more before we say enough.
Besides that the only proper functions of government are (1) to protect people from force, including violence and fraud; and (2) to punish same; education teaches thought processes, and the government should definitely not be in charge of that--it necessarily leads to government thought control. We should have a separation of education and state, the same as separation of church and state.
Honestly I became a teacher as my way of going Galt and working within the monster I hate.
But mankind grew a lot of food before commercial farming became the way we all eat. Every free citizen owes it to themselves to learn how to grow a personal garden. You may not become food independent, but you may. Manure may not be a fix all for fertilizer needs, but I grew up on a farm where we grew our own food, and manure from the cattle was used to supplement the soil every year. That, and crop rotation did a lot to maintain soil quality. Letting a field rest for a season and grow wild helps also.
There is too much information available to all of us to learn to grow food for there to be a danger of food shortages. Several free thinking writers suggest "guerilla gardens" when you do not own land to grow.
No mistake, fertilizer restrictions are part of the plan to starve all those that they can. And induce the world to eat only government-issued GMO soylent green food one day. Just wait. Various governmental agencies have openly challenged the safety of wild game as food, especially since they "proved" that deer and other wildlife carry and transmit COVID. I expect a public health declaration one day to outlaw wild game for food. And the government will exterminate the herds, except for a few left in zoos. And when hunting is no longer an acceptable source of food, then what will become of guns? Just one more brick in the wall to eventually outlaw guns as well. Regardless of your personal feelings on guns, the potential loss of freedoms should concern you.
If we do not move as a people to take legal action to protect our liberties, then we had damned well better prepare for the fallout that will come when they are absent. Perhaps it is all just a matter of time and inevitable- but even if so, prepare and grow food wherever you can. Because you all realize, ignoring these events will not make it go away, and if left to their own devices, many of those responsible would rather see us dead and enslaved.
Yep, I am aware that sounds like a conspiracy nut talking. I think the stakes are high enough and maybe I am just old enough now that I don't care anymore. Take care, all of you.
It seems necessary to name the person to whose letter I am replying, as it seems the machine just never prints the "reply" where it is typed.
I am 70. I still care. But I think we may have a good chance to turn things around in November of this year. I don't like the overconfidence that some on the Republican side have been displaying, because it's not smart. But I think that there is still a good chance.
What processing you can't burn down and get away with it, just create we're here from the government and we're here to help you stop food from growing at the start.
An absolute ruler like Stalin did not have to be subtle when he starved Ukraine.
People like those on the Squad who apparently regard humans, as such, as "parasites", and therefore want such "parasites" destroyed, should begin with themselves.
Today they refuse to hire the extra labor to do the work.
He wants the world population to be drastically reduced; mass starvation is one way.
Hey, it worked for Stalin in the 1930s. He managed to kill 4-5 million Ukranians that way.
Certain historical circumstances made calculations complicated, and even more complicated – to establish the names of those who were killed. The Soviet government did everything possible to hide the consequences of their crime. On places, it was forbidden to record the actual number of deaths. These days the secret list of some village councils with list of deaths in 1932-1933 revealed. These lists are twice higher than the official data. It is totally clear that such cases were not rare. There was a ban to record as the cause of death “hunger”, that is why in the death acts list noted “from typhoid”, “exhaustion”, “of old age.” In 1934 all the registry office books about deaths registration were transferred to a special department of GPU. Ukrainians died out in families, villages, and not always the records were held. The level of unreported deaths is unknown, but it is clear that millions died.
The Soviet Union convinced the international community “not to see” the mass murder of Ukrainians by means of propaganda, bribes of certain journalists. However, there were journalists who wrote the truth, the reports of ambassadors and diplomats are preserved. The regime took some steps to erase the memory about the murder of more than 7 million of Ukrainians. But the memory of the people is invincible, and with the formation of Ukraine’s independence the ban to talk about the Holodomor was thwarted.
Let’s go Branden ,let’s go Gates , let’s go CCP.
Way too many to be a coincidence.
Mass starvation is being engineered for the Great Reset.
https://welovetrump.com/2022/04/24/fb...
This is worth a nuclear war to prevent or undo.
The big problem with fertilizer guzzlers is that no one engages in serious crop rotation, which is a method of restoring nitrogen back to the soil without excessive use of fertilizer. Soybeans are a great way to restore nitrogen, by plowing under the vines after the crop is harvested. My great grandfather in North Carolina was a master of crop rotation and contour farming, producing huge crops without the use of any artificial fertilizer.
Composting of the right kind of crop residuals is a better way to restore health and nutrients to the soil than manure. Large scale composting should be given serious support.
As interesting as your ancestors farming history is it is antidotal and not relevant to today. Of course managing soil is important , most farmers I know use tiling and crop rotation among other techniques to maximize yields.
Typical corn yields in the US averaged between 25-35 bushels per acre from 1866- 1936. By 1955 the yields had climbed to about 43 bushels per acre. From 1955- to present yields have climbed steadily to about 180 bushels per acre. If your Great Grandfather farmed into the 70’s the average yield was about 80 bushels still less than half of today’s yields.. farmers today are not stupid generally speaking , the economics for them are much more complex. Since your Great Grandfather farmed The world added at least a couple billion more mouths to feed. Thank goodness for fertilizer.
Just like every other industry in this country, the small players have been pushed out of farming and ranching, and we're left with the "too big to fail" crowd. Look for a call for big bailouts of the failing superfarms if things don't go well. That will keep some from going under, but won't do a thing to recover the food supply for either the domestic or overseas markets.
Rail systems are the second biggest movers of goods (with waterborne traffic at the top) in this country. If they want to make more money they need to move more goods, not restrict them, as your cherry picked lines from the article imply. Adding more equipment and manpower doesn't sound like they're trying to restrict anything, so claiming they're helping play the great reset game doesn't hold water.
These words made me think of Stalin's collectivization of agriculture in the Soviet Union. Many independent farmers that didn't buy into the plan got one way tickets to the gulags. The whole thing failed then, too.
Competition in the aerospace industry has been essentially dead for a long time. SpaceX had to fight an uphill battle to get into the government launch game, even when they had an operational launch vehicle competing against the yet to be produced ULA Vulcan. Boeing is the only producer of large commercial aircraft; Northrop had no competition for the new B-21 Raider; Lockheed is slowly becoming the sole producer of fighter aircraft (while Boeing is still producing upgrades to the F-18 and F-15, but that may be the last for them).
We've seen how the government pretty much owns the US auto industry, continually bailing the "big three" out. Remember the financial giants "too big to fail?"
Thanks for reminding us that we're headed toward the Communization of our nation, just in a sneakier way than was done in the USSR.
Your examples of collectivization through regulation are very good. I assume the regulation also includes manipulation of tax codes to favor one entity over another.
It is true the deep state is pushing for the Great Reset. Yes
Does Union Pacific have a coercive (government-enforced) monopoly on doing that business?
And what about transporting fertilizer by truck? Isn't that business somehow open to the trucking companies?
I think the cost to transport fertilizer is lower via rail than via truck.
Possibly pertinent info on UP.
Who has the largest ownership of Union Pacific?
Wellington Management Company 15M
Bank of America Corporation 12M
Massachusetts Financial Services 11M Geode Capital Management 10M
Northern Trust 7.4M
Deutsche Bank Aktiengesellschaft 7.0M Bank of New York Mellon 5.8M
Norges Bank Investment Management 5.8M Goldman Sachs Group 5.6M
Franklin Resources 5.0M
Fisher Investments 4.9M
Jpmorgan Chase & Co 4.6M
Wells Fargo & Company 4.5M
Board of Directors
Andrew H. Card, Jr.
Former Chief of Staff to President G.W. Bush
Government
William J. DeLaney
Former Chief Executive Officer
Sysco Corporation
Business
David B. Dillon
Former Chairman
The Kroger Company
Business
Sheri H. Edison
Former Executive Vice President and General Counsel
Amcor plc
Business
Teresa Finley
Former Chief Marketing & Business Services Officer
United Parcel Service, Inc.
Business
Lance M. Fritz
Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer
Union Pacific Corporation and
Union Pacific Railroad Company
Deborah C. Hopkins
Former Chief Executive Officer
Citi Ventures
Venture Capital Investing
Jane H. Lute
President and CEO
SICPA, North America
Business
Michael R. McCarthy
Chairman
McCarthy Group, LLC
Investment Management
Thomas F. McLarty III
President
McLarty Associates
Strategic Advisory and Advocacy Services
Jose H. Villarreal
Advisor
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, LLP
Law Firm
Christopher J. Williams
Chairman
Siebert Williams Shank & Co.
Investment Management
This corrosive liquid requires specialized trucks.
i remember my parents having a veggie garden
manure was fine as fertilizer
Manure is fine when you aren't depending on your crops to supply all your food, and you have no labor costs.
Successful farming is a very, very difficult business.
Difference between Manures and Fertilizers
Manures Fertilizers
Manure is obtained naturally by the decomposition of dead plants and animals. Fertilizers are chemical substances and not typically natural.
Manure It is not very rich in nutrients.Fertilizer ..It is rich in soil nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorous, and potassium.
Manure It is slowly absorbed by the plants. Fertilizer it is easily absorbed by the plants.
Manure It provides a lot of humus to the soil. Fertilizer It does not provide any humus to the soil.
Manure They are prepared naturally in the fields. Fertilizer They are prepared in the factories.
Manure These do not improve the physical conditions of the soil relatively Fertilizer These improve the physical condition of the soil.
Manure Does not adversely affect the plant or the soil if supplied in large quantities. Fertilizer Adversely affects the soil and the plant if supplied in large quantities.
With the very high cost of seed and fuel costs for plowing and planting , farmers need to maximize yields.
As someone who has seen manure destroy plants from excessive amounts, I'll say that one needs some caveats. ;)
but we are seeing the problems with that approach...
relaying on products outside of our country
must be a way to turn poop into valid fertilizer