You might be interested to know I just came from shopping tonight at a large chain grocery store... I do not know what the heck happened in the few days since I was there last, I got what I usually do, runs me around $80-$90, tonight it was $168. What I noticed was: Have still not been restocked in over a week; Jimmy Dean Products, Ice Cream, Cheese products, Prepared Breakfast foods, Milk, Butter, Breakfast cereal.
Shortage of Fresh Meats, and obvious lack of Hams and Frozen Turkeys (its that time of year when there is usually an over stock because of holiday meals...
There was an abundance of: cookies, candy, snack crackers, chips, low grade produce (stuff that would have been thrown out a year ago), Sodas.

To some people that might sound normal, but I am in the heart of Amish country. I have four huge Chicken processors 6 miles north of me. I have a huge Pork processor 10 miles West of me, and two east of me, Heck I have a huge Beef processor three miles away and I have a friend who works at a Meat processing plant that makes French toast sticks and they are running almost 20 hours a day, seven days a week... I have two dairy processors within 20 minutes of me,
and three Ice Cream manufacturers within 20 minutes too, all are running full bore, where is the food going? Our store shelves should be packed! I know through our USDA inspector that other producers are also running full bore... That's Turkey, Hams, Bacon, Sausage, Bolgna, Chicken, Beef, all running full bore seven days a week... Yes its become expensive, but there should still be plenty of it, not what I saw today… FROM THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA!

Dec 15, 2014