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Re:Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking ... by kickout on Friday January 18, 2019 @03:26PM (#18942709)
Disagree BTW. Subsidies are an easy target. Affect very little to the bottom lines I've been privy to (managing input price is biggest factor IMO).

Subsidies are an artifact of scale--optics look bad when a big operation is getting 100K USD when they farm 10k acres

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Re:Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking ... by gyrgtyn on Friday January 18, 2019 @03:38PM (#18942822)
Is corn not an input?
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Re:Farms, More Productive Than Ever, Are Poisoning Drinking ... by kickout on Friday January 18, 2019 @03:41PM (#18942854)
In dairy farms yes. Was trying to generalize.
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