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The Iran War Threatens To Pull The Plug On American Farming’s Life Support

America’s energy-dependent food supply is highly vulnerable to a global spike in oil prices and to many other potential disruptions.

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As the price of oil soars and bombs strike Middle East oil and natural gas facilities, memories of the OPEC oil embargo of the 1970s resurface for many Americans. That crisis was resolved by simply turning the oil spigots back on; this conflict threatens to blow them up. Dramatic changes in U.S. food production and distribution since the 1970s have created an even greater threat that extends beyond Iran. 

The United States remains the world’s largest agricultural exporter, but we now import more food than we export, resulting in a record deficit in agricultural trade. Moreover, imports of highly processed foods from China have increased steadily.  

At the same time, U.S. family farms continue to close down or be absorbed by large producers. The U.S. cattle herd is the smallest it has been in 75 years. Suburban sprawl has irrevocably erased large swaths of farmland as foreigners and hedge funds buy up large tracts for solar panel arrays and investment, and our farmers are aging.

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