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I'm assuming you'd have had to at least plant the crop to get paid to not harvest it, right? Why would we do that instead of buy the soybeans at market rates a

I'm assuming you'd have had to at least plant the crop to get paid to not harvest it, right? Why would we do that instead of buy the soybeans at market rates and then send them to countries as aid?

bombcar 3y ago
No, you just have to fallow the land (plant nothing) - as far as I know. The latter is done for some products in various ways but that's a more fine-grained solution (which destroys poor countries agriculture entirely, which is another horror story). Government Cheese™ literally comes from the government buying up milk and having to do SOMETHING with it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_cheese