This article infuriates me. Months ago we read milk cows were being destroyed to keep the price of milk from plummeting. Chickens and baby chicks too. And just days ago, cherry growers were told to let 40% of their crops rot! This is done purposefully. Obama is absolutely positively going down the exact road FDR did. He made a bad situation drastically worse. Look ahead a year,2 and 4...where will prices be when the shortage was a planned one....You can bend a lot of will when you control the food and the health rationing, eh?
Those were tart cherries, I think that was legit. Nature just overproduced, I heard they wanted to keep the prices high so they wouldn’t collapse. This depressed income a little.
But this Central Valley stuff, shutting down the entire valley and letting farm after farm just die. Trees that were 30 years old, dieing, this is just insaneville.
From what my parents told me about the Depression, food was plentiful but no one could afford much of it. Many crops were destroyed by farmers because to harvest them and let them remain unsold was cheaper than just turning them under. It becomes a matter of losing say 2k per acre if the crop is harvested or 1K per acre if it is plowed under.
While all of them were dirt poor, my mother and father-in-law often went with one meal a day, my father and mother-in-law had food because they had family in agriculture.