"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Farm1" > wrote in message
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>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
>>> merryb wrote:
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>>>> Julie is not in an area affected by the drought....
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>>> I'm not but they say it will affect food prices for the whole country.
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>> So? Many things have an impact on prices and invariably the prices go
>> up, but they have always gone up rathter than down. Just because there
>> is a drought somewhere in a huge, rich country like the US does not mean
>> that you need to stockpile. If you were in Ethiopia then I could
>> understand why you may do so, but not in the US or any western country.
>> At least not yet. That point may come given time.
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> Well I personally need to because my husband is retiring and AFAIK hasn't
> gotten another job yet. He says he has but I will believe it when I see
> it. And part of his retirement pay may not come to us for a year or so.
> So our income is cut in about half but we will still need to eat.

So really it's a case of you building a stockpile against a change of
circumstance. I think that makes far more sense than as a result of
drought.

As I mentioned before we had 10 years of drought in this country and we had
to reduce our herd numbers on both places by half, but we never stockpiled.
The basics that do stockpile well didn't rise noticeably in price whereas
those relying on good grain harvest (poultry food [and thus eggs]) did go
up. You can't really stockpile eggs effectively or flour - both have
limited lifespan and the same applies to most things that will rise in price
arising from drought conditions.