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Overproduction? Of food?

• hammock 3y ago
  Yes. Specific foods. Such as corn, sugar and soybean. “The US sugar program relies on import quotas and limits on domestic production to ensure domestic prices for raw and refined sugar are, on average, about 100% higher than world prices. 4,000 or so farms that raise sugar beet and sugarcane, many of which also plant most of their cropland to other heavily subsidized commodities such as corn and soybeans.” https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/recapping-the-effects-of-the-us-sugar-program/ https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/recapping-the-e...
  • justrealist 3y ago
    > and limits on domestic production How can you possibly be arguing that limits on domestic production are causing overproduction?
    • miguelazo 3y ago
      They cause overproduction of poor substitutes. Like beets for sugar because of limits on sugar cane. Or monoculture GMO corn for HFCS. This skews diets and prices, usually for the worst.
    • hammock 3y ago
      The production limits effectively cap how much subsidy will be paid. The subsidy is still there. Without it, there would be less sugar grown and the land involved (mostly in the Florida Everglades and specifically developed to suit this sugar program) would go to other uses