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Prices for nearly every major U.S. crop are below what it costs to grow them. But a drop in rice prices means another blow to farmers in Mississippi’s agricultural belt.
As extra benefit, plowing them back into the soil means the nutrients get recycled, so less fertilizer needed next year.