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Americans Could – and Should – Return to Farming

By Mark Hamby

Mar 21, 2026
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Imagine a border dispute with Mexico—hardly a flight of fancy in our current age of chaos—that halts cross-border trucking. The American supermarket, that glittering temple of consumer choice, would become a scene of panic within a week. The social fabric, already frayed thin, would shred.

Or consider a more pedestrian crisis: a blight, a drought, a new …

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