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>What is wrong with this picture? America's desire for cheap beef. It is what is for dinner after all. Corn subsidies are specifically used to keep feed pric
by phpisthebest 4y ago
>What is wrong with this picture?
America's desire for cheap beef. It is what is for dinner after all.
Corn subsidies are specifically used to keep feed prices down, and thus beef prices down.
Food prices due to inflation are going to play a HUGE role in the midterms, agree or disagree you are not going to get any elected official to vote to increase the price of the hamburger.
- stevenjgarner 4y agoIowa finishing pigs were the largest class of livestock consuming corn, approximately 340 million bushels, which is about 16.6% of the Iowa corn crop, or 55% of all the corn fed to livestock in Iowa [0]. Iowa is the number one pork producing state in the U.S. raising nearly one-third of the nation's hogs, and the top state for pork exports [1]. In 2021, exports accounted for 29.4 percent of total U.S. pork and pork variety meat production [2]. [0] https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/air/article/id/6168/download/pdf/ https://www.iastatedigitalpress.com/air/article/id/6168/down... [1] https://www.iowapork.org/news-from-the-iowa-pork-producers-association/iowa-pork-facts/ https://www.iowapork.org/news-from-the-iowa-pork-producers-a... [2] https://www.porkcheckoff.org/markets/us-pork-exports/ https://www.porkcheckoff.org/markets/us-pork-exports/
- phpisthebest 4y agoI think the key word there is "in Iowa" these reports are about Corn use in the state, not about Corn Subsidies nationwide or even the over all use of Corn from Iowa in other states. as you said Iowa has high pork production so it is obvious that would be the main use of Corn Feed IN Iowa, but that would not track to other states like say Texas where there is less pig and more Cow