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Farming has always been a complex endeavor to those who understand what it takes to do it well. Beyond the daunting range of the skills needed just to cope—from mechanical engineer to biologist to animal psychologist—are the critical disciplines needed to wisely manage the farm as it works economically in its ecological context over time.. . or even to get the correct amount of the right species of cover-crop seed ordered on time.

Don’t look for One Big Answer to fix the way America farms, or eats, or fails to make food available across income levels. We didn’t get to our supposed “success” in providing what used to be thought of as cheap food overnight.

No one can be blamed for falling back to what they know when they are confronted with danger, uncertainty and unsettling changes. What’s ironic about the disconcerting shifts in food costs and availability is how differently people respond, and how they “see” the same set of facts so differently. Two examples: