Now that's one heck of an over production issue to place concern with....
This is compounded by the fact that the existing farm programs...
'nuff said there to fill a palate.
As someone who farmed until 20 years ago, I’m sympathetic to the financial problems facing farmers because of annual over-production of nearly every crop and livestock. The mountains of excess feedstuffs continue to grow in spite of nearly everything that’s tried.
Many non-farmers are very critical of farm programs, which is ironic, as they are designed primarily as a cheap food program. In that respect they have been extremely successful. Never before, in the entire history of the world, has a civiliztion had so much food available for so little money.
Take heart, in time, some decades from now, there very likely will be no need for any farm programs, as the number of farmers will be low enough that they will be able to band together to self-limit food production.
Rush has (correctly) pointed out that ignorance is the most expensive commodity traded in our country. Ignorance of the farm situation is one example of the expense of ignorance.
Blindly wishing for change is another example of the extreme cost of ignorance. I’m no friend of farm programs, but what lies ahead has the potential to be much worse.