I feel like something is definetly going on behind the scenes. In my industry we are experiencing big supply chain problems. Certain plastic fittings and pipe are hard to obtain. MAP gas for our torches is completely gone, all of a sudden the canisters have become unavailable. Backflow preventors (brass devices) are suddenly unavailable as of this week.
My theory is either A. The Xiden administration is engineering a collapse B. Military is taking over supply chains C. Alot of this stuff comes from China and they are cutting us out.
Might depend on what farm state you drove through. In Iowa, crops are planted, but not germinating due to lack of rain.
Nebraska, they've gotten lots of rain. I traveled in a triangle about 1/5th of the state, confirmed w/ a local person the gov't subsides are stopped for planting, and bigger gov't payout (he said 150%) for not planting.