Latest News Headlines From Ice Age Farmer
Crops in the Americas are feeling El Niño, and Hormuz remains closed. The Atlantic Council calls it a worst case scenario: political collapse. The EU ran an exercise in 2024 with this scenario exactly, and recommended shifting diets away from meat. In fact, the policy recommendations from the IEA/FAO/UN all...
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3 days ago
Record rains have stalled the U.S. corn and soybean harvest. Grain is sprouting and molding in the field, Europe's yields are down after heat/drought, and Black Sea grain ports are shut. Multiple breadbaskets are failing at once. This is precisely the scenario scripted in the 2015 Food Chain Reaction exercise,...
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4 days ago
A narrative is emerging around an AI-enhanced H5 (Bird Flu) pathogen, released on American farms, that will be used to advance many agendas from the biosecurity/biosurveillance state, to locking down access to AI models, to the end of animal agriculture. A former Homeland Security official published such a scenario on...
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13 days ago
In March, plans were written for an energy, food, and water crisis. That crisis is here. Those plans need to be understood as they come off the shelf. Full report and source documents: https://unshadowed.substack.com/p/diesel-is-the-pretext -- Support the broadcast: https://unshadowed.org/support...
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19 days ago
Three weeks ago I said watch diesel as we go into harvest. Prices have exploded since; ExxonMobil’s Joliet refinery just shut down unexpectedly, and the situation in the Middle East keeps getting worse. Other voices are now also warning about crop abandonment as expenses are making a harvest economically unviable....
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24 days ago
Can heirloom seed make you self-sufficient? Are hybrids a trap? Steve Solomon once believed the hype: open-pollinated heirlooms over hybrids will set you free. Then he ran a seed company and trialed both. Much of what is sold as “heirloom” is old, poorly maintained commercial stock. Saving seed isn't as...
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28 days ago
Can your garden feed you? Is organic food automatically nutritious? Steve Solomon spent decades believing it was. He and his family ate what he grew--and their health suffered. This set him on a quest to figure out what soil needs to produce actually nutrient-dense food. This conversation is about what...
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1 month ago
The pressure on diesel continues to build heading into harvest. Prices have climbed further, on-farm inventories are low, Russia is extending its export ban, refining is running at historic stress levels, and farming associations in the UK and Germany are warning of a Food Crisis, as many producers may not...
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1 month ago
Grain shipments from both Russia and Ukraine have stopped as attacks continue on Black Sea ports and vessels. Farmers now face a severe crisis: unable to sell the harvest, many lack the cash to finish harvesting, let alone plant the next winter crop. Grain is being in the fields. This...
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1 month ago
The world is hungry for grains and looking to the US...but diesel costs are already making the harvest economically unviable for many American farmers. We saw this before in Australia, where crops were abandoned and left in the ground. New data on inventories and demand just came out, and confirms...
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1 month ago
Over the last six months, as strategic reserves have been released and issues papered over, the arteries of the global economy have closed. Oil reserves are now scraping bottom. Food and water crises have been declared. And the control systems that were once UN/WEF tabletop exercises have gone live. We...
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2 months ago
Smart water meters with remote shut-off valves are rolling out now. They can automatically shut off your water after just 50 liters (13 gallons) per day ... or any arbitrary amount they decide. In Colorado, smart meters are already detecting and fining people for watering on the “wrong day." Munich...
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2 months ago
About Ice Age Farmer
Ice Age Farmer was founded by permaculturist and homesteader Christian Westbrook, whose work focuses on a deep examination of the future of our food supply and the myriad risks from the increasing centralization and control of food. He advocates a rapid move back to decentralized, locally grown, regenerative food systems, and produces videos, interviews, and tools (Growing Degree Days, Crop Loss Map, Wiki and Maps) to help others put these solutions into practice for themselves.