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“Grow What We Eat”: The Simple Fix Big Ag Doesn’t Want
Published 8 months, 2 weeks ago
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As farmers across the Mississippi Delta consider letting crops rot because prices are below production costs, a glaring question keeps resurfacing: why isn’t America growing the food Americans actually eat? Instead of endless tariffs, bailouts, and hedge funds swallowing family farms, most U.S. farmland is locked into soybeans for animal feed, corn for ethanol, and rice for export—while fruits and vegetables are shipped in from across the country or overseas. Even the World Wildlife Fund points to the obvious solution: shift just a small share of land into food crops for domestic consumption and farm revenue could surge by billions. But entrenched interests, commodity speculation, government policy, and Big Ag’s grip on the system keep things frozen in place. The result? Farmers struggle, food prices soar, and one of the most fertile countries on Earth imports what it should be growing locally.
Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i
WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on:
https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured
As farmers across the Mississippi Delta consider letting crops rot because prices are below production costs, a glaring question keeps resurfacing: why isn’t America growing the food Americans actually eat? Instead of endless tariffs, bailouts, and hedge funds swallowing family farms, most U.S. farmland is locked into soybeans for animal feed, corn for ethanol, and rice for export—while fruits and vegetables are shipped in from across the country or overseas. Even the World Wildlife Fund points to the obvious solution: shift just a small share of land into food crops for domestic consumption and farm revenue could surge by billions. But entrenched interests, commodity speculation, government policy, and Big Ag’s grip on the system keep things frozen in place. The result? Farmers struggle, food prices soar, and one of the most fertile countries on Earth imports what it should be growing locally.