Do you believe food shortages are coming?

It depends on how you define specialty. I mean, it's not as simple as apples, corn, wheat, even bread. it requires cows milk to be processed to be more digestible, then added oils, minerals, etc. Some use soy, some are hydrolyzed proteins, then can be ready to go, concentrated, or powdered. So, there is some significant processing that goes into baby formula. That's what I meant by specialty. it's more manufactured than harvested. Just like wet cat food isn't all that special, but it comes in Aluminum cans, and that was in short supply for a month or so. Baby formula is more complicated than milk.

20% is substantial, but as I said, we also export a much more significant portion of our food supply. We do so, because some things are cheaper for us to import. However, we are one of a handful of countries that are considered to have food stability. meaning, we don't need food from outside countries to survive. We can make enough on our own. Russia, Canada, I think Mexico, and a few others are similar. As I and others have said, we use a lot of corn towards ethanol, we'd just stop that. There is plenty of food here.

And I did say we'd see price increases. Just not overall food shortages. Again, where is the OP going with this? Global food issues, or US food shortages? Is the expectation that we should all raise our own chickens and have urban farms? Should be go full "prepper" and have a 500 gallon tank of water in the garage, and a 50 day supply of MRE's?

I define specialty as something that's special. I don't think anything that is produced en masse that (under normal circumstances) I can find in supermarkets, pharmacies, 7-11's, gas stations, etc. is specialty.

Wet cat food has a lot of ingredients, each with its own supply chain. For example, the ingredients from Purina's One True Instinct (went straight to Purina's website, looked up wet cat food, and selected the first one I saw), none of which Purina grows/manufactures: Chicken liver, wheat gluten, salmon, pork lungs, natural flavors, potassium chloride, magnesium proteinate, zinc sulfate, ferrous sulfate, manganese sulfate, copper sulfate, potassium iodide, corn oil, tricalcium phosphate, xanthan gum, taurine, carrageenan, choline Chloride, vitamins, vitamin E supplement, thiamine mononitrate (vitamin B-1), niacin (vitamin B-3), calcium pantothenate (vitamin B-5), vitamin A supplement, menadione sodium bisulfite complex (vitamin K), pyridoxine hydrochloride (vitamin B-6), riboflavin supplement (vitamin B-2), vitamin B-12 supplement, biotin (vitamin B-7), folic acid (vitamin B-9), vitamin D-3 supplement, salt.

There are many types of corn. The corn that is used for ethanol is not the same corn you get at the supermarket. Same with the corn that's used as animal feed. I guess we could eat it, but...