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A few years back, I caught a ride with a cattle rancher while hitchhiking across South Dakota. We stopped by another rancher's property to give him an estimate
by patch_collector 5y ago
A few years back, I caught a ride with a cattle rancher while hitchhiking across South Dakota. We stopped by another rancher's property to give him an estimate of how his cows would sell at market. While we were there, we got to talking about how he'd pulled the cows off of one of his fields, and planted corn instead. Thanks to subsidies, it was more profitable to do that, even though herding cattle is really what he wanted to be doing.
- refurb 5y agoSo your story is farmer stops doing activity A and does activity B because it makes more money?
- alistairSH 5y agoI don't think the OP was faulting the rancher. He's agreeing that federal corn subsidies are warping the market.
- paxys 5y ago> because it makes more money Because it gets taxpayer money for no reason