Therein lies the flaw. You rely on the funder to make your choice. The government as a funder is usually lazy and makes poor choices. If left to their own devices, farmers would make their own choices. The ones who make good choices will succeed. Those who make bad choices, will fail. The market weeds out the incompetent whereas the government enables them.
EXACTLY!
When I ran a 29,000 tree pecan orchard in Alabama, we were collecting payments for NOT growing cotton, soybeans and corn. Yet, we had no land for nor intention to plant any of them.
I would say that there is some truth in that.
There is also truth in an overall strategy to stabilize food production.
There have been plenty of voices saying the food bank program is flawed. I have tried to provide the opposite argument.
While I don’t generally want the government involved in much of anything, our food supply is something that I do think works better with a strategy, not just left to chance.
We have relatively few family farmers left in this nation.
I don’t want a well meaning cessation of farm subsidies to drive some of them over the edge.
Here was another time, when factors crept up to force a lot of families off their farms. I don’t want to see it again.