“Long hours, employee turnover, equipment failures, wage hikes”: U.S. Food Crisis, February 2019

Incomplete main-stream-news links of announced United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls for the month of February, 2019:

Over one weekend, 03-04FEB2019, three USAFR C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft delivered food to three of the countries flooding the U.S. with illegal immigrants; Guatemala, Haiti, and Honduras. The U.S. Air Force Reserve described the food aid mission as occurring periodically through out the year. The food is supposedly donated, but the cost of flying it to the recipients rests on the U.S. taxpayers.

In Djibouti, Africa, taxpayer funded U.S. Army veterinarians were deployed to help locals improve their livestock. It’s called a Veterinary Civic Action Project (VetCAP).

A very small number of crops are dominating globally: That’s bad news

Climate change is cooking salmon in the Pacific Northwest

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALABAMA: As much as $150-million will be spent building the Alabama Farm Center (an events center) in the hope of attracting 4-hundred jobs

$43.3 million in federal taxes awarded to Auburn for agriculture facility

ALASKA: Proposed state budget includes elimination of Division of Agriculture

Taxpayer subsidized fishing towns could lose millions under new governor

Bering Sea Pacific cod fishery could move toward quota system

Tribe takes state to court in attempt to protect herring

As the Bering Sea warms, this skipper is chasing pollock to new places

98% of Alaska’s fish are exported for use by non-Alaskans

ARIZONA: lawmakers exempt farmers from paying sales taxes…

Family farms made Phoenix livable, so why are so many going away?

State Department of Water Resources claims less water is being used now than in 1957, despite a 6-million person increase in the population

If the above is true, then why are farmers being cut off from river water?

ARKANSAS: Al’s Bar-B-Q shutdown after 47 years

Plant Board Votes To Loosen Dicamba herbicide Restrictions

CALIFORNIA: Germany based maker of containers for food, Bericap, issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Ontario, 30 jobs gone by mid-April. TGI Friday’s issued yet another shutdown WARN, this time for its restaurant in El Cajon, 48 jobs gone by mid-April. Iconic maker of restaurant coffee makers, Bunn-O-Matic, issued a shutdown WARN for its ops in Cerritos, 20 jobs gone by mid-April.

Nantucket Restaurant shutdown after 89 years, no reason given

After 102 years, Estrada’s Fine Mexican and Caribbean Cuisine shutdown

Le Cheval, one of the largest Vietnamese restaurants, shutdown due to skyrocketing rent and crashing sales

Chicken-killing Newcastle disease prompts widespread quarantines

‘dry farmers’ grow crops without irrigation

California must abandon 535,000 acres of prized farmland to meet water conservation goals

California expecting smallest avocado crop in a decade

In the leftist-liberal socialist ‘Golden State’, U.S. Navy sailors still have to help deliver food for the Meals on Wheels program in San Diego. Since January 2018, Makin Island Sailors delivered more than 550 meals to the local San Diego community.

CONNECTICUT: After at least 40 years Lynn’s Restaurant and Delicatessen shutdown

Compost heat recovery helps cut costs, boost revenue

DELAWARE: Federal prisoners to be used to operate Vertical Farms?

FLORIDA: Hamburger Mary’s closing two more locations due to Hep A investigation

Jacksonville based Southeastern Grocers decided to shutdown an additional 22 Bi-Lo grocery stores across several states, affecting thousands of employees

Krewe De Gras shutdown after ten years

After 32 years Connie’s Hams & Catering shutdown by a greedy landlord

farmers plot new course after Hurricane Michael

hemp production still a cloud of smoke

Farmworker vs Robot

GEORGIA: M onths after Hurricane Michael, farmers still trying to recoverU.S. Army Officer Cadet School trainees took part in a 16FEB2019 food drive, in partnership with the Midland Feeding the Valley Food Bank, and Columbus Community Warriors Incorporated.

GUAM: Ban on scuba fishing proposed

Marine life at risk in U.S. Navy’s 2019 environmental impact statement

HAWAII:Still Lacks Enough Local Food Production

Indigenous agriculture has potential to contribute to food needs

Costco considers farming in Hawaii

Since July 2018, the U.S. Coast Guard and the British empire’s Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans joined forces to enforce international fishing laws across the Indo-Pacific: “Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing threatens food security, impacts the sustainability of fisheries, and causes irreparable damage to marine and freshwater ecosystems across the globe. Partnerships, like this one with Canada’s Department of National Defence and the United States Coast Guard, are the key to tackling IUU fishing that threatens many vulnerable coastal communities. We will continue to work with other countries and assist small island developing states in combating IUU fishing to increase security and protect the health of fish stocks around the world.”-Jonathan Wilkinson, minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard

IDAHO: Legislation adds up costs of new hemp program

Land purchase paves way for nation’s largest research dairy

Idaho proposes requiring farmer consent for annexation

once-low-key Idaho Hop Growers Association is getting more active

ILLINOIS: Next money ‘crop’ for Illinois farmers, Solar panels?

Prisoners are prepped for farming

INDIANA: The Scotty’s Brewhouse chain shutdown yet another restaurant, this time without fair warning and blaming it on a ‘3rd party’

Taxpayer funded Grants Awarded to Grow Specialty Crop

IOWA: Pizza chain Old Chicago shutdown one of its seven locations in Iowa

After four years and $1.75-million in tax incentives, Lucky’s Market shutdown its ‘organic’ grocery store in Iowa City

Iowa’s first $260-million ‘agrihood’ promises farm-like living conditions in a congested metro area

loan delinquencies reach highest point in 9 years as crops prices slump (no thanks to capitalistic globalization markets)

KENTUCKY: Long John Silver’s suddenly laid off 20 people at its Louisville HQ

As tobacco sales dry up, farmers look to the state’s original crop; hemp

‘canine like’ attack kills six Llamas, the Llama farm just happens to be located next-door to a metro area zoo

LOUISIANA: Dean of Southern University’s Agricultural College Resigns

Company sues state agriculture agency over faulty marijuana testing

MAINE: British empire Canada based Future Farm Technologies Extends 100-Acre Lease for CBD-Producing Hemp

MARYLAND: Long Beach Oyster House suddenly shutdown because “the new management had to walk away.”

farmers demand to use toxic pesticides despite warnings

MASSACHUSETTS: Papa Gino’s is closing six locations in Massachusetts and one in New Hampshire.

Big Y shutting down its grocery store in Adams, 90 jobs gone

After three years restaurant Roadworthy suddenly shutdown

nonprofits face eviction from taxpayer-owned farmland

Residents Urged To Check Plants For Invasive Lanternfly

MICHIGAN: ‘Taste’ and nutrition company Kerry issued a shutdown WARN for its factory in Kentwood, 107 jobs gone by the end of April!

Tom’s Food Markets shutdown its 36 years old location south of Grand Travis Resort

D&W Fresh Market sutting down its location in Portage, 50 jobs gone in March

A place used by local school bowling teams, Candlelite Bowling and Banquet Center, suddenly shutdown after five decades with no reason given

Seventh Day Adventist founded food giant Kellogg laying off 67 people at its Battle Creek HQ, and another 12 corporate jobs elsewhere, as part of its globalization plans

Two men sentenced to prison time for conspiring to commit bank fraud and making false statements to attain loans and crop insurance for Decatur based Stamp Farms

A $30 million eel-fish farm in Michigan?

MINNESOTA: ‘Senior Dinning’ service Morrison Community Living issued WARNs for several locations, more than 250 jobs threatened by the end of April!

After six years Crave Burger shutdown

MISSISSIPPI: Taxpayer funded vaccines equal bigger catfish?

MISSOURI: After nearly 90 years of serving food in the River Market, Cascone’s Grill shutdown

For the first time in more than 100 years, there’s no grocery / convenience store in Thornfield, following the closing of the Heriford Store due to no longer being feasible (despite being the last food store in the area)!

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City warned that farm incomes would likely have a weak start in 2019

MONTANA: Five Loaves Coffee House & Bakery shutdown after 14 years

6500 Montanan farmers sign up for $14 million in taxpayer funded tariff relief payments

NEBRASKA: After more than 60 years Conroy’s Family Bakery shutdown

Asian jumping worm poses future threat

loan delinquencies highest in 9 years

Man Killed by Bull While Checking Cattle

NEVADA: Farmers challenge new ‘water market’

Strangles disease killing horses

NEW HAMPSHIRE: Local ‘organic’ Farmers Frustrated by Recent USDA Labeling Decisions

Labor Shortage, Climate Change Challenges

NEW JERSEY: Belgium owned Anheuser-Busch issued a WARN for its Jersey City sales ops, 80 jobs gone by the end of April.

Why North Carolinian boats are fishing off New Jersey’s coast

NEW MEXICO: Local dairies now ground zero for PFAS contamination by the USAF

Air Force pollution forces dairy to kill 4-thousand cows!

NEW YORK: Raul’s Candy Store shutdown after 40 years

Purchase based Pepsi announced massive layoffs and factory shutdowns as part of a plan to “leverage new technology and business models.”

Restaurant Black Forest Adler shutdown after seven years, the owner blaming it on “Long hours, employee turnover, equipment failures, wage hikes … and little time for a personal life.”

Farmworkers in leftist-liberal socialist taxpayer funded New York are excluded from labor protections!

Local ag economy faces low profits, big risks

NORTH CAROLINA: Restaurant chain owner Monica Eats now chapter 11 bankrupt busted

That trendy CBD product in your smoothie is still illegal in North Carolina

NC State Study: Aquaculture Does Little, if Anything, to Conserve Wild Fisheries

NORTH DAKOTA: Senator misleads with her claim of record number of bankruptcies in ‘farm country’

State House passes bill that expands the strange ‘family’ corporate farm law

State Senate passes revised trespassing bill

State law’s definition of ‘farmer’ makes it almost impossible for farmers to get a tax exemption

OHIO: Actual Brewing now bankrupt dead after losing $558-thousand in 2018, due to low sales

Without warning grocery giant Kroger shutdown a bakery in Columbus (known as the Columbus Bakery) saying it was not worth upgrading the equipment, supposedly the now jobless 405 employees (according to the official WARN) will get 60 days severance

After more than 43 years the Golden Dawn grocery store shutdown, the owners refused to comment

Farm Bureau members are disappointed with the results of the LEBOR vote

OKLAHOMA: Reasor’s Grocery shutting down a store in Broken Arrow, despite efforts by city leaders to keep it open

New chicken farming rules

OREGON: BridgePort Brewing, at one point Portland’s preeminent brewery, announced it will immediately halt brewing operations and shutdown in early March, due to crashing sales

Bill would allow Oregon farmland to be rezoned along border with Idaho

Organic farms want taxpayer support

PENNSYLVANIA: The owners of La Trattoria suddenly halted the renovations to their restaurant and quit to focus on another business

After eight years Redhound Grille suddenly shutdown, the owner blaming increasing competition and lack of people who want to work a crappy restaurant job

After 13 years restaurant Nine-on-Nine shutdown, local news media say restaurant shutdowns are now the norm

Mexico based Bimbo Bakeries shutting down operations in West Hazelton, 157 jobs gone by September due to consolidation ops!

Mosteller’s Seafood shutdown

Dairy Price Plateau

PUERTO RICO: Chef José Andrés fights for an independent Agricultural Sector

1.4 million Puerto Ricans will face food aid cuts

Midwest states Look to Puerto Rico for Workers

RHODE ISLAND: Criminal Probe of Slaughterhouse Sought After Cows Shot and stabbed Multiple Times

Rhode Island farmland has the highest national average cost per acre at $13,800

SOUTH CAROLINA: Lincoln Park Bar and Grill suddenly shutdown

State House removes hemp lid

SOUTH DAKOTA: foreclosure case could involve more than 31-thousand head of cattle

TENNESSEE: After only a year Taco Garage shutdown

After 44 years the Gold Rush Bar shutdown due to expenses going through the roof

Top ten agriculture plants in Tennessee

TEXAS: Boiler Nine Bar + Grill shutdown due to not being able to pay management fees

Virtual kitchen Blue Apron shutting down its distribution center in Arlington, more than 450 jobs affected by April, due to crashing online orders!

Grocery giant Kroger shutdown its 59 years old store in Denison, 60 jobs affected

Taylor Farms Recalls Chicken Products Due To wrong labels

UTAH: Newcastle chicken disease found in Utah home

Controversy over water reform rules

VERMONT: Renewable energy growing among animals and crops

tiered system of fees imposed on hemp growers

VIRGINIA: About 25 Navy and Air Force culinary students, instructors and support staff lent their skills to the lunchtime feeding operation at The Hope Center, with the goal of easing hunger and financial stress for less-fortunate citizens: “This is the first time since I’ve been down here that we’ve had the military come down in a volunteer capacity to cook.”-Scott Fisher, executive director The Hope Center

After only one year Smokey T’s Southern Kitchen shutdown

Ledo Pizza suddenly shutdown its Short Pump location

Virginia Diner Shoppe shutdown its Richmond-Carytown location, not willing to renew the lease

WASHINGTON: Food service company HMS Host issued a mass-layoff WARN for its ops at SeaTac, 202 jobs gone by the end of March! Legacy Fruit Packers suddenly shutdown its ops in Wapato, 199 jobs instantly gone! Also in Wapato, Valley Fruit suddenly shutdown, 1-thousand and nine jobs instantly gone! In Seleh, Larson Orchard Management suddenly shutdown, 807 jobs instantly gone! Last year the above fruit growing/packing companies were sued by H-2A immigrant workers (Larson Orchard settles lawsuit with H-2A workers), as a result the above affected fruit growing/packing farms were forced to shutdown and sell-out (confirms purchase of Washington fruit companies) to several companies, including a company partly owned by billionaire Bill Gates!