there was a famous thing in Brazil in the 30s where to maintain the price of coffee, the government bought 80 million sacks of coffee and just burned them. or all the food the EU buys off failing farms to let rot
CRP is mostly gone, tragically. the idea of limiting supply to support prices for grains was blown up during Nixon and replaced with direct payments to plant as much corn as you can, wherever you can, including highly erodible areas that should not be ripped up every year.
this allowed us to really start using our food production as a weapon of empire and give our grain processors and CAFOs access to grain for prices far below the cost of production.
there was a famous thing in Brazil in the 30s where to maintain the price of coffee, the government bought 80 million sacks of coffee and just burned them. or all the food the EU buys off failing farms to let rot
We basically do that right now, except it's before we grow the corn we just pay people to not-grow corn.
Pay ME to not-grow corn, motherfuckers, I'm real good at that.
CRP is mostly gone, tragically. the idea of limiting supply to support prices for grains was blown up during Nixon and replaced with direct payments to plant as much corn as you can, wherever you can, including highly erodible areas that should not be ripped up every year.
this allowed us to really start using our food production as a weapon of empire and give our grain processors and CAFOs access to grain for prices far below the cost of production.