You may have convinced yourself that your commentary at the end is true. Those of us in the know realize you don’t know what you’re talking about.
GeronL said way more in his post than this article ever does, and then summed it up nicely with his last sentence in #57.
Have yourself a good day
Looks like the moderators at that site too down my post... lol
It was something like this:
The government has an iron grip on the agricultural sector of this economy. The government forces growers to dump large portions of their crops in order to artificially raise prices. You need a federal license to grow a peanut. Ever heard of the Dairy Compact? The Egg Board? Did you know that in 2009 or so, millions of pounds of tart cherries were left to rot on the ground by government edict, in order to raise prices. The US had to import tart cherries to make pie filling that year. The government had a program that was taking upwards of half the crop of table grapes out of the market. It was finally tossed in a lawsuit. We have a Soviet-type agricultural system in this country. We have government programs paying farmers not to grow stuff, paying them to grow stuff, paying them if they grew too much or too little. It is totally insane what our government does and has been doing in some cases since the 30’s.
What you fail to understand is that the reason the government does much of those things Gen lists in his post is because Big Gub'ment and Big Agra are intertwined and Big Agra wants the Gub'ment to do most of those things.
Especially things that make it hard for Smaller Farms (non corp. farms) to compete.