Welcome back to New World next week.

I'm James Corbita Corporate Report.com.

And I am James Evan Pallado of Mediamonarchy.com.

If I have to choose the vaccine or chip, I'm going to choose death.

We have got that MIA story.

Plus, if they could see me now aboard a virus cruise. But first, the food inflation crisis, all the investors will soon be talking about. America isn't starving. There's plenty of beef, wheat, and eggs. At the moment, food inflation is lower than core inflation,

but Americans are still living with much higher prices up around 20% since 2022. The once-in-future King, DJ Trump, is right when he says the U.S. doesn't rely on the Strait of Hormuz for its

agricultural needs, but Europe and Asia do. And they will outbid American

farmers for fuel and fertilizer, forcing food higher prices for everybody, including Americans.

Anyone who knows a farmer has heard stories of the worst year ever, but now American farmers

are facing their most serious crisis since the 1980s when we last had that

actor president who acted like he cared about the common man. Production costs were already rising

before the Iran War and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Many farmers still waiting on

loans unable to lock in fertilizer prices before they spiked. Kind of like how I was lucky enough to fill up my

tank of gas right before the Iran War broke out. A newly released Farm Bureau survey of 5,700

U.S. farmers said 70% of farmers won't be able to afford all the fertilizer they need this year.

Many are reducing planting acres, thus potentially,

meaning less food moving through the supply chain and higher prices for what does make it to market.

The Ukraine War offers a parallel. Ukraine, a major exporter of grain and other agricultural needs.

After Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, concern grew that Europe and Africa

wouldn't get wheat and that American farmers would fall short of fertilizer like urea and

ammonium nitrate, pee and poop, which Ukraine sold globally.

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