U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss

Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by vkou on Friday August 16, 2019 @08:47PM (#20721124)

1. NZ has 3 times more arable land/person than, say, the United States. It could probably use the same farming methods as China did in the famine of Great Leap Forward, and still have enough food to go around.

2. Driving without a seatbelt, or car insurance works, until it doesn't.

3. You'd probably be producing even more food/person, and be more resilient to market failure/drought/crop failures/etc were it subsidized.

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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by EdwardDiego on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:04PM (#20721206)

3. Nope. We were producing less food when our farmers were subsidized.

1. According to my googling, the USA has 0.38 hectares of arable land per person, NZ has 0.14 per person.

You're aware only 2% of our land is arable compared to the USA's 16% right? Lots of mountains and hill country here.

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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by abraae on Friday August 16, 2019 @09:33PM (#20721361)

Arable's a blunt classification though. In NZ we have no mountain lions preying on our sheep, which makes better use of that land. Not to mention favourable growing conditions.

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Re:U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss by Fjolsvith on Saturday August 17, 2019 @08:59AM (#20723801)

It would be nice to have more mountain lions in Kansas to thin down the large deer herds.

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