Sparks: US farmers pay price of Strait of Hormuz closure

The circular memo regarding the application process for the emergency agricultural subsidy will require six signatures before it can be submitted for review.

The Dynamo, now manifest as global trade routes and energy flows, asserts its accelerating force, rendering the old mechanisms of statecraft and national interest quaintly insufficient.

Striving to control the flow only damns the river, while yielding to its path allows all things to arrive in their season.

Observe how the constant motion of countless unseen atoms, whether of oil or grain, dictates the fortunes of men, not the fickle temper of distant deities.

Common sense dictates that the prosperity of the farmer should not be held hostage by distant squabbles and the whims of foreign potentates.

When the main road is blocked, we find another path; the provisions must still reach those who need them.

A truly moral society would find its conscience pricked by the suffering of its industrious citizens, not merely by the distant struggles of nations.

Things that are hateful: the empty cargo ship, the wilting field, the distant rumour of conflict that spoils the morning’s rice.

One must go to the docks, speak to the sailors, and see the idle ships to truly understand the chokehold on the world's arteries.

When the free flow of goods is obstructed by political machinations, the invisible hand of the market is grievously injured, harming all.

Inside the iron room, the farmers sleep, unaware that the very air they breathe, the very food they grow, is being slowly suffocated by ancient grudges.