re: Will the winter food shortages impact the US?

There will be an impact here.

Biden just increased the amount of ethanol in gasoline by 50% (from 10% to 15%). This means a lot more farm land going towards field corn (which is not consumable by humans) instead of other commodities. Field corn is also used for livestock, which means less going towards livestock (and that which is will be more expensive). The same goes for other commodities (lettuce, potatoes, etc).

Natural gas is used to enrich fertilizer. As the price of natural gas increases, so too does the cost of many groceries.

Russia and Ukraine are two of the major exporters of grain in the world. Ukraine's last harvest is rotting at its docks while Russia's has been blackballed (although I won't be shocked to hear China and India were buying from them on the side). Along with this, Ukraine hasn't been able to plant for this year's harvest yet.

Don't think for a moment that the Biden won't attempt to win goodwill among voters and the international community by donating a bunch of our grain to other countries, even if it impacts our ability to feed ourselves.

And then we have the possible diesel shortage as well as the probable DEF shortage (due to a lack of urea, because we import a lot from Russia).

We should be okay for the winter, but next year should be a shite show (especially if the war in Ukraine is still going on).

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don't have much to do with government policy or the war in Ukraine,

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You cannot be this retarded...

Are they cancelling deer and duck season this year?

Mark my words. We will send our food that we need to other countries

Im doing gardens, although not very good at it yet. chickens for eggs, and just started raising quail for meat. My biggest concern is will feed be available for the birds. If I can get feed, I should be ok regardless along with hunting and fishing.

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based on previous actions by this administration, I don't share your confidence that we would slow down exports.

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I hope not because then we’d have bigger problems. They’d have taken over private businesses.