Peanut Butter Shortage
SueInAz
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This will come as very bad news for a lot of you. Stock up now!
http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/56325/peanut-butter-problem-1.asp
Take a good, long look at that jar of peanut butter sitting on your kitchen table. It's going to have to last you a while.
The United States has a peanut shortage this fall and soon peanut butter prices will jump around 30 percent.
Drought was the main obstacle for peanut growers this year.
Tiffany Arthur, an agricultural economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency, said that in Texas, the air was so dry that irrigation water would evaporate before the water could reach the plants. The Texas peanut yield is down 17 percent.
Though not as bad as Texas, dry weather affected farmers in the state with the nation's biggest peanut crop, Georgia.
"I've never seen a year wherein we suffered from planting time, all the way through the growing season," said Hawkinsville, Ga., farmer Rodney Dawson. "I've never experienced a season like this in 41 years."
The dirt "is just hard, really hard. [It's] just like powder, no moisture at all," Dawson said.
"The La Nina is mostly to be blamed here," AccuWeather.com Agricultural Meteorologist Dale Mohler said. "That southern tier of the country where peanuts are grown is typically dry during a La Nina."
La Nina stifles the storm track in the Southern states. There isn't the normal progression of storms. Instead, high pressure systems kill off any moisture and storms.
Worse, the bad news isn't over for the peanut farmers or peanut lovers, Mohler said.
"With La Nina coming back this fall, we're expecting another dry winter and spring in the Southern states and that's more bad news for crops in the South, including peanuts. If summer rains don't materialize [in 2012], that's two bad years in a row."
Another part of the problem is that cotton prices were high around planting time, so farmers planted cotton instead of peanuts. Planted acres for peanuts went down 11 percent this year.
The last time farmers planted so few acres of peanuts was 2009. Before that, it's been nearly a hundred years since so few acres of peanuts were planted, 1915.
http://www.accuweather.com/blogs/news/story/56325/peanut-butter-problem-1.asp
Take a good, long look at that jar of peanut butter sitting on your kitchen table. It's going to have to last you a while.
The United States has a peanut shortage this fall and soon peanut butter prices will jump around 30 percent.
Drought was the main obstacle for peanut growers this year.
Tiffany Arthur, an agricultural economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Farm Service Agency, said that in Texas, the air was so dry that irrigation water would evaporate before the water could reach the plants. The Texas peanut yield is down 17 percent.
Though not as bad as Texas, dry weather affected farmers in the state with the nation's biggest peanut crop, Georgia.
"I've never seen a year wherein we suffered from planting time, all the way through the growing season," said Hawkinsville, Ga., farmer Rodney Dawson. "I've never experienced a season like this in 41 years."
The dirt "is just hard, really hard. [It's] just like powder, no moisture at all," Dawson said.
"The La Nina is mostly to be blamed here," AccuWeather.com Agricultural Meteorologist Dale Mohler said. "That southern tier of the country where peanuts are grown is typically dry during a La Nina."
La Nina stifles the storm track in the Southern states. There isn't the normal progression of storms. Instead, high pressure systems kill off any moisture and storms.
Worse, the bad news isn't over for the peanut farmers or peanut lovers, Mohler said.
"With La Nina coming back this fall, we're expecting another dry winter and spring in the Southern states and that's more bad news for crops in the South, including peanuts. If summer rains don't materialize [in 2012], that's two bad years in a row."
Another part of the problem is that cotton prices were high around planting time, so farmers planted cotton instead of peanuts. Planted acres for peanuts went down 11 percent this year.
The last time farmers planted so few acres of peanuts was 2009. Before that, it's been nearly a hundred years since so few acres of peanuts were planted, 1915.
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brb, buying almond\cashew butter.0
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Noooooo! I must have my peanut butter! I will be stocking up for sure!:laugh:0
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I really don't get this fascination with peanut butter. Then again, i don't get the fascination with alcohol either tbh...0
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I'm not panicking. I'm not panicking.0
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I already pay a decent amount for PB2. It's de-fatted peanut butter and it only has 45 calories for the same amount of peanut butter that's normally 190 calories. It comes powdered and you measure out 2 Tbsp of it and add 1 Tbsp of water, and it comes out to about the same consistency and taste as peanut butter, but way better for you. Hyvee carries it in their health food market.0
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I already pay a decent amount for PB2. It's de-fatted peanut butter and it only has 45 calories for the same amount of peanut butter that's normally 190 calories. It comes powdered and you measure out 2 Tbsp of it and add 1 Tbsp of water, and it comes out to about the same consistency and taste as peanut butter, but way better for you. Hyvee carries it in their health food market.
I was just thinking we should stock up on this! HEY we could clean out the shelves and EBAY it!0 -
blah that sucks.0
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I really don't get this fascination with peanut butter. Then again, i don't get the fascination with alcohol either tbh...
I don't drink, but peanut butter, oh hell yeah.0 -
I believe it. I'm not a peanut, but I am in Texas and the heat and drought almost killed me too. I thought it would never end.0
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Honey almond butter. Problem solved.0
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I love good old fashioned PB. So this saddens me.0
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I don't really eat peanut butter but the hubby does, and we bought two HUGE jars at costco yesterday. He had heard about the "shortage" as well.0
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Sunbutter from sunflower seeds is used in the schools now due to so many peanut allergies. It's not half bad. But I still want Peanut Butter. Crunchy Please!0
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190 calories for two level tablespoons, who needs it?0
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Say it ain't sooooooo!!!!:sad:
(Although that defatted pb sounds very interesting, I'll have to see if I can find some...)
I eat the whipped pb!! I LOVE it! It's my sinful indulgence!0 -
Me. It's still a healthy food, high calorie doesn't equate to bad for you.190 calories for two level tablespoons, who needs it?0 -
:sad:
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going to get a little extra myself tomorrow....0
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Me, Me, Me... My oatmeal won't be the same without it. Let the hording begin.... keep your hands off my jar.190 calories for two level tablespoons, who needs it?0 -
i just ran out and bought some today. can't go on without the pb!0
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