No fertilizer production.
No transport of seed and fertilizer.
No distribution of insecticides and herbicides, or production of same.
No diesel fuel for plowing, planting, harvesting.
No electricity for milking (nearly all milk cows are milked with electric milking machines.
No electricity for processing harvests, storing them, distributing them.
If you have no electricity or communications, agriculture as practiced in the United States dies quickly. Many farms have enough supplies to operate for a month.
But we are talking a year here.
A complete plowing, planting, harvesting, storing, and distribution cycle.
Without power, how do the fuel stations on the interstate operate? How do the trains communicate with the communications infrastructure gone, destroyed by the EMP?
I am not saying that is probable or likely. I think we are tough and getting tougher under President Trump.
But *given* no grid or communications, the vast majority of agriculture stalls to a halt very, very quickly.
Trains will be repaired quickly as well as trucks. The will get priority. Imports of grains will increase for sure and there will be inflation.
Without power, how do the fuel stations on the interstate operate?
They are called generators and most have magneto type ignition. So like I said previously.