ALERT Major storable food supplier Augason Farms ceases operations for 90 days, citing collapsing supply chain

Dennis Olson

Chief Curmudgeon
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Major storable food supplier Augason Farms ceases operations for 90 days, citing collapsing supply chain

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(Natural News) Storable food mega-supplier Augason Farms has ceased operations for 90 days, citing, “global raw-material shortages” and “substantial delays” in procurement and production.

“Regrettably, BCG [the parent company owner of Augason Farms] cannot fulfill your orders on time; therefore, this letter communicates our decision to suspend business for the next 90 days, effective immediately,” says an October 7th, 2021 letter issued by Mark Augason, President of Augason Farms, to Augason Farms distributors and retailers (see letter below).

“During these 90 days, we will secure and stockpile raw materials and take measures to accelerate our round-the-clock production output,” the letter continues. “We are confident that this reset period will help us better serve you with on-time, complete shipments in the future,” the letter adds.

Augason Farms has been a large-scale retailer on Amazon.com, Walmart and many other retail outlets, typically offering non-organic dried fruits, vegetables and meal mixes to the preparedness and survival community.

The full letter is shown here:

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In addition to this letter to its distributors and retailers, the Augason Farms website has announced it is no longer processing online orders from customers. “Due to an extremely high order volume through all sales channels we are currently not able to receive any orders through our web site,” said an on-site message on Oct. 8th.

“We expect to turn this site back on just as soon as possible.”

For the record, we were disturbed to learn about this development. It is yet further evidence of the accelerating collapse of food supply lines. As we have repeatedly warned, the world is about to be plunged into a “Dark Winter” of extreme food scarcity, power grid / energy scarcity and accelerating spike protein fatalities occurring among the vaccinated.

The shuttering of Augason Farms for 90 days is only going to worsen the food scarcity at retail, causing people to scramble even more aggressively to try to locate dwindling food supplies.

In my opinion, the brain dead Democrats only seek to throw more stimulus money at this problem, creating yet more fake fiat currency chasing an ever-shrinking supply of goods. And since you can’t eat stimulus money, all the stimulus in the world is pointless if the supply lines are collapsing. The problem in today’s economy isn’t a lack of stimulus money, it’s a lack of labor due to all the COVID lockdowns (which are completely nonsensical and based on irrational junk science). This lack of labor is getting translated into food supply chain disruptions and transportation / logistics nightmares that mean fewer goods are available to end customers.

If this continues, the mass starvation and power grid failures will probably kill far more people than COVID ever could.

Our own storable foods operations at HealthRangerStore.com have been heavily impacted by the collapsing food supply chain. As we reported weeks ago, commercial food purchase contracts that we traditionally signed with food providers for 12 months of food deliveries have all but vanished. Commercial food suppliers told us in July that they, “could not guarantee any food deliveries beyond 90 days out.” Suppliers that used to offer credit terms are now demanding payment up front, or full payment upon delivery. And many commercial food orders are resulting in only partial deliveries, typically representing half of what was originally ordered.

The last time we put storable food buckets into our online inventory, they sold out in 90 minutes. We have remained out of stock ever since. (Our current production run will put items back into inventory on Nov. 11th, assuming the power grid stays up.)

There is no question whatsoever that the food supply chain in North America is rapidly collapsing. This is because elections have consequences, and the Democrats would seemingly rather see America locked down than working in productive jobs. If you pay people to stay home and not work, people will stay home and not work. Before long, the shelves are empty. It’s a page ripped right out of communist-style centrally-planned economies… which history has proven are horribly inefficient and lead to exactly the kind of supply chain failures we are witnessing at this very moment.

Those who remain in denial about this reality won’t be able to deny it for much longer, as the retail shelves are starting to run dry as well. Every nation, they say, is but nine meals away from a revolution. Those nine missed meals are arriving this winter, it seems.

We wish Augason Farms the best in resuming operations in 2022, should supply lines improve. However, we are extremely concerned that the picture is going to be far worse 90 days out. And those who fail to stockpile food in the next 30-60 days may find themselves literally starving to death in January / February (or begging FEMA for emergency food handouts).

The US power grid won’t even be reliably functioning by then, according to energy industry insiders. Hear the full details of the coming USA power grid blackouts in my most recent podcast
 

TxGal

Day by day
This info from Augason is posted in several places on the forum now, and it's good to spread it far and wide.

I walked into our spare room/pantry/storage room, and figured I could probably squeeze a little more in as long as I stack it on the floor next to the storage racks.

I just placed an order online for several cases of items at the LDS store online:

Food Storage | United States Store (churchofjesuschrist.org)

I can't say enough good things about these folks. My dear niece, who married into an LDS (now Church of Jesus Christ) family, became a member, and passed about a decade ago, taught us about the Church's food storage program over 30 years ago. She also got us several items to try from the cannery back when they still did the ward canning sessions. From her I first learned about Emergency Essentials (beprepared.com), which I believe is now part of the Augason family. I didn't see any notice about delays there. The LDS store is out of stock on some items, but some are still in stock. They are extremely helpful, and we've always been pleased with their products.

If you are lucky enough to have an LDS store near you, double check their hours and don't hesitate to visit. Our nearest one is a good 2+ hrs away, but it's worth a trip and we usually go a few times a year. I would not be surprised if they limit their sales to LDS member only, but to my knowledge it hasn't happened yet. They really do believe in helping everyone prepare, not just their own members.

Don't wait, folks, this is becoming beyond serious now, and it's real.
 

TxGal

Day by day
I am worried about the grid going down and the stock market crashing.

All anyone can do about that is to be a self-sufficient as possible without power, to whatever level you feel comfortable prepping for.

With the stock market my personal view is heck, that can happen at any time, seemingly without much cause or warning. We got out of the market a long time ago, but everyone has their own comfort level and thoughts of what to do with their funds.
 

Kathy in FL

Administrator
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Wow. Mountain House is next.

I would suggest people get on Amazon and some of the other online sales sites and check out some of the lesser known camp food brands such as Peak and a few others like Good To Go and Backpacker's Pantry.

I would say people with special diets should be doing this pronto pronto.

Another alternative is of course make your own but you aren't going to get a 20+ year storage life out of them.
 

SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
For just us, I'm not so much looking for shelf life food down the road in 20+ years. It's what I can fill our stomachs full of now and in the near future. Nothing wrong with having long term shelf storable food, but it's getting to the point now that food is scarce. What do you need to stock to use now, near term?
 
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Optimus Prime

Senior Member
Veg-All, canned potatoes, canned green beans/corn, Lucerne peas, canned meat, spaghettios, ravioli, fruit…every time I go to the store for the last year (once a week) I’ve been 4 cans of each. Yea, do the math. It’s a complete bedroom. I WILL NOT watch my children, their spouses and grandkids starve. Watch Clifs last video. The CCP will have to find a way to feed 700 million mouths. You think they’d have any qualms directing or re-directing food sources to themselves. Sadly, our “leaders” will help fill the containers to ship. No one is coming to save us…
 

TxGal

Day by day
I just checked Honeyville Grains, they've pretty much been out of most items for the better part of a year, and it doesn't look much better. Pleasant Hill Grains - I'm pretty sure they don't have as much as they used to. Some items are out of stock there, too. They did have the Keystone meats, which we've never tried but many people post they like it....ground beef is well over $100 for a case, some will not be availble until November but they recommend pre-ordering.

It's really getting tight out there.
 
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TxGal

Day by day
Veg-All, canned potatoes, canned green beans/corn, Lucerne peas, canned meat, spaghettios, ravioli, fruit…every time I go to the store for the last year (once a week) I’ve been 4 cans of each. Yea, do the math. It’s a complete bedroom. I WILL NOT watch my children, their spouses and grandkids starve. Watch Clifs last video. The CCP will have to find a way to feed 700 million mouths. You think they’d have any qualms directing or re-directing food sources to themselves. Sadly, our “leaders” will help fill the containers to ship. No one is coming to save us…

Yep, we're doing pretty much the same thing. Our spare room/storage room/pantry really is a small bedroom we converted. We're learning we really like some of the Aldi's canned fruit (pears, peaches), black olives, canned ravioli pasta (tastes like ChefBoyArdee but better), and their canned green beans and corn. Prices are a lot cheaper there.

We love Progresso's lite chicken noodle soup, but gosh it's up to $2 in a lot of stores. We grab a few cans every time we shop. I used to wait for it to go on sale, but I'm having doubts it will again.

At this point, it's almost like prices are no longer the issue as much, availability is becoming the issue.
 
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SouthernBreeze

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Same here on the converted spare bedroom used for a pantry room. Floor to ceiling shelves all the way around. Every nook and cranny I could find is filled. Now, it's getting stacked in the floor up to waist high by the case. As long as it's on the shelves at the grocery store to buy, I'm going to keep stocking. I shop twice a month, and always buy to replenish what I use, along with more to store. Also, it's not hurting my feelings at all to have started stacking cases of food in our own bedroom and kitchen. Who cares? I've learned not to be so picky about what it looks like as long as everything stays clean and organized.
 

nomifyle

TB Fanatic
For just us, I'm not so much looking for shelf life food down the road in 20+ years. It's what I can fill our stomachs full of now and in the near future. Nothing wrong with having long term shelf storable food, but it's getting to the point now that food is getting scarce. What do you need to stock to use now, near term?
I agree, although I ordered the wheat in case my not used very often flour gets rancid. With the wheat berries i can grind exactly what I might need at the moment if it comes to that. That will not be the only case of wheat berries that I have.

I converted what was supposed to be a formal dining room into a pantry and my actual nice size pantry is right next to it. Although its not as organized as I'd like.

God is good all the time

Judy
 

hiwall

Has No Life - Lives on TB
I see Walmart still has some Augason Farms dried eggs at $35 for a #10 can. We have several but I ordered more anyway. Most of our Long Term Storage food is Augason Farms or from the LDS Food Pantry. We are out of room.
 

bev

Has No Life - Lives on TB
Our only option for more storage is a small walk-in closet in the garage. I’m concerned about the wide temperature fluctuations in there. Any advice about that?
 

Kathy in FL

Administrator
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I’d bet they will never be back. Probably operating on razor thin margins as it is and 90 days with no income coming in most businesses today can’t weather that. This is why we prep!

That's a real possibility. Then again I thought the same of Patriot Supply but they came back. Let's see if they stay back.
 

Henry Bowman

Veteran Member
foam board insulation or whatever it is called. It has the silver paper on one side. That could get you started.
Good thinking, hopefully it will be available .

I once did a storage room in an out building with no heat to speak of and did the entire inside in that, double foil, basically was able to keep it above freezing with a very small strip of electric baseboard.
 

Henry Bowman

Veteran Member
I have been ordering from Freeze Dried Wholesalers, so much so they gave my youtube channel a 15% discount link if you guys want to check them out here is the link figure I use it for my youtube channel but in times like this might as well let you guys get the discount as well Freeze Dry Wholesalers
What is your Youtube channel ?
 

TxGal

Day by day
Our only option for more storage is a small walk-in closet in the garage. I’m concerned about the wide temperature fluctuations in there. Any advice about that?

I'd worry about the temps, too. It should be cool enough in winter to store things there, I'd think...you know your climate better than anyone. Summer, though, I'd think would be a problem. If you can move items back and forth as the seasons change, that might work for you. Or, keep your paper products out there, if that would make more room in your house for other items.
 

summerthyme

Administrator
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Our only option for more storage is a small walk-in closet in the garage. I’m concerned about the wide temperature fluctuations in there. Any advice about that?
Use it for stuff like paper goods, cleaning products and stuff that isn't affected by temp... sugar, salt, pasta (not flavored 9r "side" dishes with flavor packets) You could move stuff from an inside linen closet out and put food where the linens were..

Summer
 
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