The United Nations World Food Program warns that this may be a year of catastrophic hunger as 44 million people around the world face famine.  The Russian invasion of Ukraine has created a humanitarian disaster and upended agricultural production in one of the world’s largest exporters of wheat and corn.  Other conflicts in the Middle East and a crippling drought at the Horn of Africa threaten food supplies in those regions, and food producers around the world continue to deal with weather challenges, twisted supply chains, and an on-going pandemic.  Kansas U-S Senator Roger Marshal says that everyday this war continues takes us closer to a point of no return where we will see food insecurity at a global level because it will prevent Ukrainians from planting, harvesting, and exporting food.