Today we are exporting Alfa Alfa as feedstock to global markets from our drought stricken southwest. The subsidies we are providing has encouraged farming in d

Today we are exporting Alfa Alfa as feedstock to global markets from our drought stricken southwest. The subsidies we are providing has encouraged farming in desserts and is destroying precious water we have . Is depending on another nation so bad compared to that ? Besides There are other ways to protect industry without subsidies- put a tariff on imports for example . A tariff would not protect exports however just local consumption, farming subsidies are designed to dump are unsustainably grown produce in global markets not protect the local Industry.