The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil

Re:The U.S. corn belt has lost a third of its topsoil by jon_richards on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:07PM (#26835663)

Subsidies have transitioned away from direct payments to subsidized insurance. The insurance isn’t just about natural disasters or crop loss, it guarantees minimum revenue based on farmed area, basically resulting in direct payments whenever prices are low. That has been successfully rebranded as “not a subsidy”.