“I can’t believe it—Obama actually did something I agree with!
I think he and I had had 100% opposing positions through almost 7 years, up to this point.”
I feel the same way. There must be a catch. I’d like to think farmers can start growing food again so we don’t import as much. Hard to find even seasonal items in grocery stores grown in the USA.
Except for a few specialty foods, we import no food.
In fact, the American Farmer produces so much food that vast amounts must be exported.
A year or o ago one of the farm trade magazines had a special issue entitled 'Boatloads and Boatloads of Meat' which detailed the tons and tons of meat that had to be exported to get rid of the staggering surplus of meat we produce.
The same is true of ethanol corn on the all emotion driven ethanol threads.
We have always had mountains and mountains of surplus corn, Name the year, and the answer is that there was so much surplus corn countless shiploads had to be exported.
We produce so much food that food prices dropped 40% over the 30 years from 1970 to 2011.
But, that is fact based information, and as such has no business being on this thread.