Incomplete list of announced United States food supply shutdowns, emergencies, outbreaks and recalls for the month of January, 2019:

Farm fatalities on the rise: Ag industry ranked most hazardous in the U.S.

“Ag-gag laws” hide the cruelty of factory farms from the public.

U.S. Army food inspection specialists check expiration dates of food in Poland, 29JAN2019, as part of anti-Russia NATO ops.

Near the island of Fiji, U.S. Coast Guard personnel join with Canadian counterparts, as well as the Western Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, to enforce international fishing laws.  In the pic a Coast Guard ‘small boat’ approaches a suspected illegal fishing boat, 25JAN2019.

Blue C Sushi suddenly shutdown restaurants in California and Washington, without warning all employees now jobless

How 300 Years of Urbanization and Farming Transformed the Planet

Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking Water

Polar vortex strikes U.S. farm belt

Judge temporarily block’s Trump imposed wage increase for foreign farm workers, as lawsuit reveals 400% increase in H-2A foreign workers!

WARN=Worker Adjustment & Retraining Notification

ALABAMA: HEMP PROGRAM: Farmers with interest urged to apply

Mad cow testing halted by government shutdown

Alabama company recalls hot sausages due to metal bits

ALASKA: Taxpayer funded program aims to cultivate specialty crops

Experimental Farm survives government ups and downs

ARKANSAS: Hemp firm partners with university researchers to develop cannabis

5 migrant workers claim mistreatment on Arkansas farm

Honey farmer blames popular herbicide for killing honey production, saying the herbicide caused “…the destruction of the pollinating plants that bees need.”

ARIZONA: Shot in the Dark Café shutdown due to “gentrification of …the surrounding area” indicated by a “400% rent hike”!

Canadian farm robot tested in Arizona

Drought plan fight between farms and cities escalates

Experimental hops farm attempts year-round grow

CALIFORNIA: France based food service contractor Sodexo issued a shutdown WARN for ops in Los Angeles, 59 jobs gone by the end of March.  Tokyo Table issued a shutdown WARN for its Alhambra restaurant, 33 jobs gone by mid-March.

Lucca Ravioli shutdown after 94 years, no reason given

San Francisco based online meal-delivery Munchery suddenly ceased to exist

British empire Canada based McCain Foods shutting down its factory in Colton, 1-hundred jobs gone!

Almanac Beer shutdown San Francisco taproom

After 40 years Harry’s Hofbrau shutdown 

Yankee Pier seafood restaurant shutting down after almost 11 years: “It wasn’t about quality and service, it was about sales and rent.”-Steve Sarrell, manager

Could California produce soon cost you more?

CONNECTICUT: Brew Makers Want More Flexibility 

‘Frost Quakes’ Cause Explosive Sounds

DELAWARE: Abbot’s Grill shutdown after nine years, due to not being able to renew the lease due to increasing competition

Code Purple Declared As Bitterly Cold Temperatures, Sub-Zero Wind Chills Arrive

Man arrested for poaching deer

FLORIDA:  France based food service contractor Sodexo issued a WARN for ops in Miami, 149 jobs gone by the end of March!  Food service contractor Aramark issued a WARN for its ops at Raymond James Stadium, 919 jobs affected in February!

Taxpayer funded Director of Cannabis position created

State ag commissioner sworn-in on Hebrew holy book

GEORGIA:  After 42 years Rainbow Natural Foods shutting down in February after failed attempts to sell the grocery store, due to local building codes

After 12 years, Fiddler’s Seafood Southside suddenly shutdown its Hodgson Memorial Drive location.

Brazil muscles-in on local farming ops, due to locals being desperate for jobs

For more proof that farmers are actually taxpayer funded welfare recipients; peanut industry halted after government shutdown

GUAM: Five arrested for allegedly keeping endangered green sea turtles

Coconut drink taxed, outlawed, now threatened by rhino beetle

New study blames U.S. occupation of the island for massive food insecurity.  After World War Two the U.S. Navy evicted natives from their farms and villages, now as much as 95% of the island’s food comes from other countries.  It’s estimated that the current U.S. occupation has resulted in the natives having only five to 10 days food supply in an emergency! 

HAWAII: The U.S. Coast Guard was called to rescue a sick employee of a Vanuatu registered tuna boat.  It was reported that the tuna boat crewman had been sick for days and was getting worse, Coast Guard personnel determined hospitalization was needed and airlifted him to Kauai.

Kauai dairy farm scrapped

Bee parasites also affect bee eaters

Taxpayer funded specialty crop funding

IDAHO:  East Idaho potato growers barely breaking even

farmers see production increase, revenue decrease (welcome to the reality of the commodity market)

Vineyards recover from snow-mageddon

State of the art gravitational irrigation system 

ILLINOIS: Tavern at the Park issued a shutdown WARN, 80 jobs gone in March due to being sold.  O’Charlie’s issued a shutdown WARN, 60 jobs gone by April.

Restaurant Michael being shutdown to make room for two smaller restaurants

Tuscany restaurant closing Oak Brook location after 25 years

Cerar’s Barnstormer Steakhouse and Catering suddenly shutdown, the owner saying “Due to circumstances beyond my control, I have to close….The future is uncertain…”

New farming method in yet another attempt to reduce nitrogen pollution (I guess all the other attempts failed? How about just stop using oil industry chemicals?)

INDIANA: After less than 2 years Crispy Bird suddenly shutdown

Dairy Producers Facing Another Year of Change 

Rising Interest Rates and Strong Dollar Will Make 2019 Another Tough Year for Farmers

IOWA: Iowa ‘ag gag’ law ruled unconstitutional

KANSAS:  Chick-fil-A shutdown its West Ridge Mall location with only a two weeks notice

Farm incomes down 60%!

Focus on GMO soybeans to increase yield

KENTUCKY:  State Ag commissioner orders facebook to stop deleting hemp companies

LOUISIANA: Breaux Mart suddenly shutdown a grocery store in Gretna

Invasive plant is threatening, again

Tariffs force farmers to leave soybeans in fields to rot

MAINE: After nine years, The Roost suddenly shutdown its Orono restaurant.

No let up in fight against salmon farm

Maine hemp ops benefit British empire Canadian company

MARYLAND: Starbucks shutting down its Tollgate Marketplace cafe, no reason given

For more proof farmers are taxpayer funded welfare recipients; farmers waiting for promised soybean subsidies

MASSACHUSETTS: West Bridgewater based Shaw’s shutting down four grocery stores

After 192 years, iconic Durgin Park shutdown “due to declining revenues and expenses that keep growing”

After 60 years Santoro’s Sub-Villa shutting down

MICHIGAN: Mr. B’s Food & Spirits shutdown after 40 years

Taxpayer funded help for local wineries

MINNESOTA: Bakers Square and Perkins restaurants finally notified state unemployment officials of that they both eliminated jobs in Rochester.

Pet food recalled after state health department finds salmonella in a human

Almost half-a-million more pigs

MISSOURI: TreeHouse Foods closing Saint Louis office, 170 jobs gone!

Saint Louis based grocer Save-A-Lot suddenly laid off 1-hundred corporate level employees!

Popular chain McArthur’s Bakery shutdown two brick-n-mortar locations and will focus on new internet sales

Tyson Foods, Inc. Recalls Chicken Nugget Products

Missouri’s new labeling law criminalizing ‘meat’ 

NEBRASKA: After 22 years Millard Roadhouse suddenly shutdown, no reason given

Dodge County says no to large Costco poultry farm

Taxpayer funded UNL’s College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources‘ relatively new Undergraduate Scholarship Program targets foreign students

NEVADA: For the past eight years Nevada Air National Guard’s High Rollers have helped with the Evelyn Mount Food Distribution both at Thanksgiving and Xmas, but not anymore: “They came in and showed leadership in coordinating everything from organizing food distribution lines, helping to direct parking and made sure all the lines of customers stayed calm with no incidences. I couldn’t have done it without them…..”-Evelyn Mount, who has had to halt her food donation ops at the urging of her family and doctors

controversial water market approved

snowpacks in the Great Basin appear to be transitioning from seasonal, with a predictable amount and melt rate, to ‘ephemeral’, or short-lived, which are less predictable and only last up to 60 days: “Small temperature changes can lead to large ecological changes. More intermittent snowpacks means water flow is more difficult to predict. We might not get as much water into the ground, throwing off the timing of water for plant root systems, reducing our supply and use, and even affecting businesses such as tourism.”-Rose Petersky, Hydrology Graduate Student 

Taxpayer sponsored horse rustling? Illegal round up of publicly owned horses for slaughter might also have taken privately owned horses, according to lawsuit against Nevada Agriculture, Native Americans, and a Utah company that’s been in trouble before. The lawsuit says most of the horses were not part of tribal reservation herds but were on federal public land and included privately owned horses which were herded into Utah from Nevada:“We respect the sovereignty of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe for activities that occur on their nation’s lands. However, the roundup of the Palomino Valley horses occurred on private lands outside the reservation, involving trespass, taking of private horses and violations of state law. We are bringing this suit on behalf of the residents whose property rights have been violated and the wild horses who have lived peacefully in Palomino Valley for years.”–Suzanne Roy, whose own horse was rounded up

Federal Judge Bars Slaughter of Horse taken during taxpayer funded Tribal Roundup

NEW HAMPSHIRE: The Wine’ing Butcher shutting down its Bedford location, owner blames market saturation and skyrocketing rent: “We had the best holiday season we ever had, but I can’t make a decision based on one month, especially since I don’t know what Trader Joe’s will bring. I really can’t afford to sign another five-year lease with an increase…”-Rob Smith

900 Degrees Neapolitan Pizzeria shutting down yet another location, blamed on lack of employees willing to work in the crappy restaurant industry

Rescued horses being rescued again after non-profit animal rescue farm begs for food donations

NEW JERSEY: Allied Beverage issued WARNs for two locations, 108 jobs gone by March!  Switzerland based Nestlé issued a WARN for its ops in Florham Park, 62 jobs gone by April.  Winberie’s Restaurant and Bar suddenly eliminates 43 jobs.

Carlo’s Bake Shop shuts down two brick-n-mortar locations due to not being able to renew the leases

the dawn of a new hard cider era

NEW MEXICO: Bakery La Fiesta shutting down after 13 years: “We’re doing paperwork and on Monday my husband is showing me the numbers and I’m like, ‘Oh, my God there’s no way.’ There is no way, we are beating a dead horse!”-Gina Ortega, referring to crashing sales caused by a taxpayer funded road ‘improvement’ project that’s been ongoing for the past year

Micro-farming network plans expansion

NEW YORK: Centerplate issued shutdown WARNs for several New York Racing Association locations, about 6-hundred jobs affected by loss of contract!  Restaurant Dos Caminos issued shutdown WARN, 1-hundred jobs gone due to not being able to renew the lease!  After 18 years, Nirchi’s On The Avenue shutting down in favor of yet another pizza joint.

After 37 years Pelham Bay Diner suddenly shutdown, the owner blames market saturation (too many new restaurants)

Papa Jakes Saloon/Pop’s Sports Bar and Grill shutdown

Save-A-Lot suddenly shutdown its grocery store in Norwich

Justin’s Grill in East Syracuse shutdown after almost 18 years

After less than two years in Mount Kisco, Siegel Bros. Marketplace suddenly shutdown

The Italian Grill in downtown Paducah merging with a competing pizza joint to save money

Despite boasting it has more than 245 job openings, non-dairy products maker Rich’s (Rich Products) suddenly laid off 19 people

NORTH CAROLINA: After 56 years Bill Ellis Barbecue shutdown suddenly, 55 jobs gone: “Against all obstacles, we fought the good fight, but realized it’s time.”-Tanya Neville

Now bankrupt busted Gigi’s Cupcakes shutting down its Cameron Village location

The Race to Relearn Hemp Farming

NORTH DAKOTA: Ag groups, hunting groups face off over trespassing bill

State and County agencies sue city over anti-pig law

OHIO: Pennsylvania based Eat’n Park closing all its Ohio restaurants, 2-hundred jobs lost!

After 63 years the owners of Hathaway’s Diner are threatening to shutdown because of high rent

Giant Eagle shutting down its grocery store in Willoughby Hills

Quarter Barrel Brewery & Pub shutdown two locations in Oxford and Hamilton

OKLAHOMA: After 20 years Goldie’s Patio Grill shutdown without warning 

State Ag Secretary suddenly resigns 

Poultry rules still in place

OREGON: Lost Valley Farm issued a shutdown WARN, 75 dairy jobs gone by April.

State files objection to Lost Valley Farm sale

Widmer Brothers closes North Portland pub

Elmer’s shutdown its 17 years old Klamath Falls restaurant, 30 jobs gone due to ‘multiple economic factors’.

New rules for Oregon Agricultural Heritage Program

PENNSYLVANIA: France based food service contractor Sodexo issued a shutdown WARN for ops in Philadelphia, 59 jobs gone by the end of March.  The owner of the ShopRite grocery store in Haverford  issued a shutdown WARN, 109 jobs affected by March!

Belko Foods closing Waynesburg store: “We just haven’t been able to make it profitable enough to keep it open.”-Larry Krupko, owner

Oakshire Mushroom Farm now bankrupt due to losing its biggest customer Costco, and the difference in value between the Canadian and U.S. dollars 

Switzerland based Nestlé shutting down its Breinigsville call center, 72 jobs lost

ACME shutting down its grocery store in Gladwyne because they now have too many stores in the area

PUERTO RICO: How a cockfighting ban could affect Puerto Rico’s struggling economy

British empire Canada based hemp company taking advantage of U.S. government inaction in Puerto Rico

RHODE ISLAND:  Brown University criticized for using live pigs in medical training

dairy farms vanishing after 4-year crash in milk prices

SOUTH CAROLINA:  Louisiana and Mississippi ban sweet potatoes from South Carolina

SOUTH DAKOTA: Shrimp farming coming to land-locked South Dakota

The South Dakota Air National Guard’s 114th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron Weapons Element has joined the ever growing war on hunger in the U.S.A.: “For our first year we feel like we had a good start…..Even though the donation may seem small…”-Technical Sergeant Karl Hoskins

TENNESSEE: World Market shutting down its Hendersonville location due to not being able to renew the lease

TEXAS: North By Northwest Brewing shutting down its Austin location due to challenges brought by ongoing area construction

One of the largest employers in the Corpus Christi area, Kane Beef Processing, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Sovrano’s Gatti’s pizza chain now bankrupt busted

Tennessee founded, but now Texas owned, Gigi’s Cupcakes now bankrupt busted

Eastside Cafe shutdown, to be replaced by another restaurant

 Chick-fil-A shutdown its Sunland Park Mall location with only a two weeks notice

Taylor Farms recalls chicken products due to mislabeling

UTAH: After 25 years Village Inn Restaurant shutdown due to being sold

USDA confirms virulent Newcastle disease

VERMONT: 10 percent of Vermont dairy farms closed in 2018

VIRGINIA: Perdue Foods’ fun-shaped chicken nuggets recalled due to mislabeling

WASHINGTON: The employees of the only Pizza Hut in West Seattle leaked news of a shutdown, no reason given

Washington DC: USDA clears early February food stamp disbursement due to shutdown

Cannabis stocks look set to flourish thanks to Trump

WEST VIRGINIA: State expecting $6-million in assistance from taxpayer funded USDA Emergency Food Assistance Program

WISCONSIN: Mail order/online gift gourmet food seller Figi’s suddenly halted some operations and will layoff 276 people by March!  For proof brick-n-motars are not the only companies suffering declining sales, Figi’s reps said that despite investing millions of dollars into their ops, profits keep falling. 

The Whiskey Bar shutdown, the owner saying “We have been the only tenant in this building for 10 years and knew someday this building would be razed and there will be an incredible development opportunity….” 

Applebee’s shutting down its 12 years old Wauwatosa location due to not being able to renew the lease

Sprecher’s Restaurant and Pub suddenly shutdown

After 80 years Jacobson Brothers Quality Deli and Meats shutdown all three locations

WYOMING: Western Sugar announced yet another round of layoffs, as part of its plan to shutdown ops in Torrington: “It’s like a punch to the gut for the City of Torrington. There’s no way our community can absorb 200 jobs.”-Mayor Randy Adams

U.S. FOOD CRISIS, December 2018: ‘BRINK OF EXTINCTION’