A sustained disruption of traffic through Hormuz would not simply constitute an energy crisis. It would also represent a fertiliser shock (where prices go up dramatically and supply goes down) – and, by extension, a direct risk to global food security.
Do American farms not use compost and practice no-till farming?
We never need fertilizer, we just make compost.
Most Industrial farming doesn’t use no-till or much compost outside of raw manure.
If we stopped mandating ethanol, which uses fertilizer heavy corn, it might help ease the shock of fuel and fertilizer shortages.