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Re:The myths we tell ourselves about American farming by nitwit005 on Saturday September 02, 2023 @12:46PM (#37363159)
Except the government intervenes to deliberately raise food prices all the time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dairy_Price_Support_Program
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Re:The myths we tell ourselves about American farming by bequanna on Saturday September 02, 2023 @06:37PM (#37366108)
This is price support in extremely volatile commodity price periods to reduce the number of farms that going under.

We want to maintain a high supply of food and need producers to do that without thinking they could go bankrupt next year. Seems reasonable to me.

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Re:The myths we tell ourselves about American farming by nitwit005 on Saturday September 02, 2023 @07:08PM (#37366265)
No one said anything negative about the policy.
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