> The difference between what they get paid for a potato and what I pay for a bag is quite extreme. Not only extreme, but also obscene. I recall in the late 9

> The difference between what they get paid for a potato and what I pay for a bag is quite extreme. Not only extreme, but also obscene. I recall in the late 90's someone described the poor profitability of potato growing in large tracts of the USA, and it sounded impossibly low - in the order of hundreds of dollars per acre. Sad but true -- while revenue per acre may be ~$2500, costs are ~$2000 [0] There's probably an on-topic observation to be made here about the past century or so spent driving subsistence farmers off arable land, monoculture, soil destruction, leading to an objectively unsustainable potato farming industry (in the sense of throwing more Joules into the working of the land, than you are getting out of it). [0] https://www.farmprogress.com/story-potatoes-profitable-risky-venture-9-149581 https://www.farmprogress.com/story-potatoes-profitable-risky...