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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by nwallin on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:38PM (#20721613)
Historically.

Food is a global commodity and is largely fungible. If every farmer in the US went bankrupt overnight we could easily sustain ourselves by importing food from everywhere else.

Famine is really only a possibility in crushingly impoverished (much of Africa) or criminally mismanaged (Venezuela) economies. The potato blight was a secondary cause of the Irish potato famine, the primary causes were poverty and (English) government incompetence. (or malice, if you prefer) The United States has nothing to worry about.

Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by Fjolsvith on Saturday August 17, 2019 @08:52AM (#20723774)
Just because a farmer goes bankrupt doesn't mean the farmland and farm equipment disappears. It will still produce.