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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by Mtinie on Friday August 16, 2019 @08:28PM (#20720995)
Understandable, and in the same vein of why it is so important for the United States to retain industrial manufacturing capacity (i.e. auto and heavy machinery makers) because you never know when you’ll need to rapidly ramp up production.

Would there be a benefit if we could support and subsidize commercial farms up to a certain size, and no larger, removing the compulsion for ultra-large, mass-industrialization of our agriculture industries?

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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by AnimalMuppet on Friday August 16, 2019 @08:38PM (#20721072)
> Would there be a benefit if we could support and subsidize commercial farms up to a certain size, and no larger, removing the compulsion for ultra-large, mass-industrialization of our agriculture industries?

I like it a lot. We might add a bit of an incentive for non-monoculture agriculture - different strains of wheat, for example. (There's some of that already, and we don't want all the smaller farms to do that, but some doing it might be a good idea.)

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