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.
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.
Which would be a good function of the government, to make sure produce finds a market, and doesn’t get wasted. As long as we subsidize, and we should to protect our abilities to grow food if not for sugar and corn, we should be doing it to lower costs for citizens and to make sure nothing gets wasted.
Like in 2020 during the pandemic, crops were rotting in the fields. They were throwing around trillions of dollars to subsidize corporate profits, but we couldn’t be bothered to make sure crops didn’t get wasted.