talking to local in my farming community, once deisel stops they will subsistance farm for themselves, they what are the rest of the people going to eat?
Right now so much regulation to farm I spend more time in paperwork than on keeping up on new farming techniques and practices.
Once the animal stocks are gone it may never recover, it takes years to grow a cow into beef, not many place have self hatching chickens, egg layers. most factory farming there are specialized breeding farms and the growing farmers do so on contract, not owning the live stock. It is very fragile.
Low will you survive? Dairies are mainly automated and many are totally reliant on electricity for lighting, milk vacuuming, cold storage. Chickens all heated building with fans and power augers for feed and water, pigs the same.
Once ag land is not used for a few years takes massive amount of work to get it back to production.
Draft city folk to replace farm equipment?