Hunger Games Coming by Mid-Terms

Snyder says scream sorta

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/3-factors-which-are-about-make-coming-food-shortages-even-worse

Snyder writes in regards to this CF statement: CF Industries Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: CF), a leading global manufacturer of hydrogen and nitrogen products, today informed customers it serves by Union Pacific rail lines that railroad-mandated shipping reductions would result in nitrogen fertilizer shipment delays during the spring application season and that it would be unable to accept new rail sales involving Union Pacific for the foreseeable future. The Company understands that it is one of only 30 companies to face these restrictions.

CF Industries ships to customers via Union Pacific rail lines primarily from its Donaldsonville Complex in Louisiana and its Port Neal Complex in Iowa. The rail lines serve key agricultural areas such as Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Nebraska, Texas and California. Products that will be affected include nitrogen fertilizers such as urea and urea ammonium nitrate (UAN) as well as diesel exhaust fluid (DEF), an emissions control product required for diesel trucks. CF Industries is the largest producer of urea, UAN and DEF in North America, and its Donaldsonville Complex is the largest single production facility for the products in North America.

I was astounded to hear that 30 different companies will be affected by these reductions.

Someone at Union Pacific needs to give us some straight answers about what is really going on, because the CEO of CF Industries says that this change “could not come at a worse time for farmers”…

“The timing of this action by Union Pacific could not come at a worse time for farmers,” said Tony Will, president and chief executive officer, CF Industries Holdings, Inc. “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. 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.”

Of course this comes in the aftermath of a disastrous winter wheat harvest in the United States, and the winter wheat harvest over in China is being called the worst in history.

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Now the reason: WHY" CF Industries (major producer of US fertilizers) was notified by the Union Pacific Railroad that "mandated" tonnage restrictions were in place that essentially would limit or eliminate CF's ability to transport fertilizers to farmers.  Whose mandates?  Based on what?  Then after exhaustive digging I find this:

CSX, Union Pacific, Canadian National pledge to reduce ...  https://www.freightwaves.com › news › csx-union-pacific-canadian-national-pledge-to-reduce-emissions

"Union Pacific (NYSE: UNP), CSX (NYSE: CSX) and Canadian National (NYSE: CNI) are setting goals to reduce their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in part through a pledge with the global initiative Science Based Targets.. The overall goal of the three railroads, as well as other companies that have signed onto the initiative, is to limit global warming to below 2°C above pre-industrial levels."

How/why is Union Pacific going to do that I wondered?  Reduction of tonnage transported to a select customer of the railroad?  They issued a force majuere on CF Industries indicating their shipments exceed the new tonnage mandate and would not be able to fulfill their contractural agreement with CF Industries.

So here we have it - Marxists corporations have colluded to block/inhibit food production in the US.  If you don't think that's an engineered famine right here in the old US of A, think again.