> And yet, the government pushes and incentivizes farmers to just grow more. I'm a corn farmer (along with soybeans, dry beans, and wheat). What particular inc

> And yet, the government pushes and incentivizes farmers to just grow more. I'm a corn farmer (along with soybeans, dry beans, and wheat). What particular incentive is there for me to grow more corn? I am honestly unsure of what you are referring to. There is a natural incentive for me to stay within that group of crops because that is what my existing infrastructure is capable of handling. If I wanted to grow, say, tomatoes, assuming my locale is actually suitable for growing them commercially, I would need to set up an entirely new infrastructure to handle them at great cost. That doesn't make business sense. Accepting a bad year on corn sales to be made up in the good years does. That said, new crop corn was at nearly $6 with the local basis applied a few weeks back. If you cannot plant and harvest corn at a profit at $6, you're doing something horribly, horribly wrong. The real problem this year – and what prompted the jump to $6 – is the wet spring that left us struggling to get the crop in. If you have a crop to harvest this year, and were savvy enough to sell it, you're laughing.