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xboxnolifesyesterday at 7:26 PM2 repliesview on HN

Farmers are literally subsidized to over-produce for food security.


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hnthrow0287345yesterday at 7:32 PM

Which of course is not enough due to other expenses:

https://www.fb.org/market-intel/farm-bankruptcies-continued-...

https://www.adamsandreese.com/the-ledger/rising-farm-distres...

And those farms get bought up and folded into for-profit operations. You simply can't fix this in the current system.

JumpCrisscrossyesterday at 8:54 PM

> for food security

They overproduce for votes. Countries without farmer blocks swinging elections stockpile non-perishables for food security.

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