Thanks for the inputs y'all. I'm a bit of a doomer and see a future where we WILL encounter mass food shortages on a global scale in 2023/24 and onward.
This Article, although few months old, is a good summery of our current state, although the war is not letting up. I think that we may have not seen anything yet as far as the inflation in the price of food. So, each year I work on becoming a better vegetable gardener, I work on my skills of preserving the food, and planning how to do it more efficiently each year. So in regards to that whole 25lb bag, I think the smart move would be to buy as much as you can of all nutrients now, and in my case, I"m going to break it down into 5lb bags and vacuum seal and keep them in dry storage. If i'm wrong, cool, I just learned a lot about self reliance. If i'm right....well shit, I get to eat.