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nemomarxtoday at 1:06 PM1 replyview on HN

You've got it backwards - foreign aid using US grown crops provides increased very stable demand. Take any excess grains made in a given year and ship them to another country, the farmers get paid well for it so they keep their productive capacity high, and the marginal cost of getting it to a charity overseas is low anyway. This means there's always enough grain to feed our citizens.


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direwolf20today at 1:09 PM

And it keeps foreign countries dependent on us and gives us another avenue to coerce them. Wins for us all around.