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minus-squaresudo@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·16 hours agoThey currently do need subsidies to be profitable. Farmers destroying their own crops to raise prices is a well documented historical fact and it still happens today particularly when it comes to livestock. This is not my abstract conjecture.
minus-squareexplodicle@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-214 hours agoBut in the examples I’m familiar with, they do it because of regulation or collusion, not because of a lack of subsidies.
They currently do need subsidies to be profitable. Farmers destroying their own crops to raise prices is a well documented historical fact and it still happens today particularly when it comes to livestock. This is not my abstract conjecture.
But in the examples I’m familiar with, they do it because of regulation or collusion, not because of a lack of subsidies.