[DoughtyOne]

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.

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[RegulatorCountry]

There were boom and bust cycles due to over-planting before subsidies. Those claiming that there weren’t are arguing from an ideological position. Farmers were and are just as prone to the herd mentality as anyone else.