Staff of life

Someone listening to a recording of our broadcast in July of 2016 found fault with a statement I made about grain reserves.

About 15 minutes into the recording the critic thought I said "the silos are empty and we are out of grain". He wanted proof of this and of course I had none because that is not what I said.

What I said was that we use to have years and years of grain supplies in this country. Part of that surplus grain was what was called the "strategic grain supply".

He noted that "Today corn is being piled on the ground in huge mountains because there isn't enough storage space." Of course that is very common to pile grain on the ground until it can be shipped to some place. I use to pile grain on the ground back in the 60's but there was 6 to 7 years supply of grain in silos on the farm at the time.

In America much of this loss of storage capacity is due to the fact that there is no real support for a grain reserve so people have turned silos into vacation homes. Many silos are full but the private storage capacity has decreased in relationship to the increased demand. And in many countries the only grain storage increase is government controlled.

The individual went on to say he was "very in tune with the amount of grains and to say the amount of grain reserves in the USA is 'burdensome' would be a huge understatement."

What i strategic grain reserve?

The "strategic grain reserve" was proposed back in the 1930s by Benjamin Graham. It was meant to moderate the boom and bust cycle of grain prices that often caused bankruptcy when grain prices dropped in surplus years.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt created a grain reserve that also helped American farms during the Depression. In the 1970s the governent redesigned the Farmer-Owned Grain Reserve by offering low-cost and even no-interest loans for stored grain and subsidized the storage costs. But global markets over the following decades until the 1996 Freedom to Farm Act abolished the national system of effective grain reserve.

The reserve which had once been 6 or seven years supply of grain for the whole country dwindled and what was left became part of the Bill Emerson Humanitarian Trust under the authority of the secretary of Agriculture. "The stores were gradually depleted until 2008, when the USDA decided to convert all of what was left into its dollar equivalent. And so the grain that once stabilized prices for farmers, bakers and American consumers ended up as a number on a spreadsheet in the Department of Agriculture."

Grain has played a greater role in the success and failure of major civilization from Egypt to Rome and China and India. Our modern world is not immune to global famine. In fact we were never more vulnerable.

In a world of self centered people there is little vision of man in history. Our personal vanity keeps us from seeing the truth or hearing it when we are told it. Over the last 4000 there have been many instances of world wide famine due to weather changes.

The Maunder Minimum, a "prolonged sunspot minimum" from 1645 through 1715 caused crop failures world wide and a reduction in world population. There were several "Little Ice Ages" over the last two millenniums due to volcanic eruptions that brought world wide famine. In 1315, cold weather and torrential rains decimated crops across Europe which destabilized countries as millions of people starved. Volcanic eruptions in the years following 540 A.D. produced the coldest decade in more than 2300 years caused world wide famine and cannibalism from Europe to China can happen again.

Our modern dependence on technology does not make us less vulnerable but more.

So what is the reserve today?

Estimates world wide for Grains for 2015/2016 is 2453.35 Million Metric Tons with a total supply of 3030.58 Million Metric Tons and in the US those numbers would be 428.85 Million Metric Tons with a total supply of 505.47 Million Metric Tons. Of course of that we will trade away at least 81.33 Million Metric Tons which is good for our trade defict and only use about 348.73 Million Metric Tons. that leaves us with

What if you had global weather change and crops begin to fail several years in a row.

If there was really global weather change on the horizon and the government loved the people or the people just loved each other there would be a massive push to buy and store grain since very few food products can be stored for so long more economically than grain.

Global grain supply were still low in 2013 after droughts in the US. While the crops have been good for the most part since then there has been no real attempt to go back to the strategic storage levels of the past.

In fact crops in America have been so good that Loan Deficiency Payments are are starting in some place. These LDPs are a farm income support created by the Food Security Act of 1985. That act was not only inadequate with its "swampbuster" clause but it seemed more concerned with "Determining Where Farm Products are located" rather than creating a real usable reserve.

I am not suggesting another giant government boondoggle program to creat a reserve but in a government of, for and by the people they should be gathering to create their own private and community controlled reserves.

There use to be hundreds of grain buyers in business out here in the west but that part of the grain economy is now controlled by a few large companies.

The modern debt economy requires that everyone sell what they produce as soon as possible to pay off loans since everyone including the government is operating on credit.

I was speaking of "grain reserves".

Just one story. U.S. Food Supply More Vulnerable Than Ever After Government Sold Off Emergency Grain Reserves

http://www.collapse.news/2016-01-29-u-s-food-supply-more-vulnerable-than-ever-after-government-sold-off-emergency-grain-reserves.html

I just googled grain reserve supplies and here are the first results.

Want food security? Bring back a national grain reserve - latimes articles.latimes.com › Collections › Opinion

Sep 21, 2012 - When grain prices rose above a threshold, supplies could be increased by bringingreserves to the market — which, in turn, would dampen ... [PDF]The Urgent Need for Strategic Reserves - National Family Farm ... nffc.net/Learn/.../Reserves%20Q%20&%20A.pdf

National Family Farm Coalition A Strategic Grain Reserve akin to the Strategic. Petroleum ... days worth of wheat, but we had 30 days supply of petroleum in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve. 3. U.S. food supply more vulnerable than ever after government sold off ... www.collapse.news/2016-01-29-u-s-food-supply-more-vulnerable-than-ever-after-go...

Jan 29, 2016 - The U.S. once had extensive grain reserves, a concept derived around the time of the Great Depression. It was said to be so vast, that in the ... Did You Know That The U.S. No Longer Has Any Strategic Grain ... www.infowars.com/did-you-know-that-the-u-s-no-longer-has-any-strategic...

Alex Jones Aug 17, 2015 - When grain prices rose above a threshold, supplies could be increased by bringingreserves to the market — which, in turn, would dampen ... Surplus U.S. food supplies dry up - ABC News abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=4770135

International grain supplies are the tightest in three decades, and prices of ... The nation for years has maintained a strategic petroleum reserve as a form of ... Gregory His Church at Summer Lake HisHolyChurch.org On 7/27/2016 12:34 PM, Paul Bethke wrote: > > We received this message on the HHC facebook page… > > > > http://keysofthekingdom.info/TSH-160709.mp3 > > At the 15 min mark you say the silos are empty and we are out of grain. Could you please show me some proof of this? Today corn is being piled on the ground in huge mountains because there isn't enough storage space. Wheat is nearing LDP payment territory. > I am a new follower of His holy church and also a farmer. > How much other info in these pod casts do you just make up? I wouldn't know because as a new follower of Christ I am not well versed in many biblical things. But I am very in tune with the amount of grains and to say the amount of grain reserves in the USA is "burdensome" would be a huge understatemnt.

In crop year 2008/2009, a total of approximately 2.24 billion metric tons of grain were produced worldwide.

So what does that mean?

Striking with thy Staff
Wheat and War
http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/wheat.php

No Bread in the Land
Your Daily Bread and
Your Faith Emergency Management Auxiliary!
http://www.hisholychurch.org/news/articles/nobread.php