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This is why nations tend to have things like large stores of long lasting foods, and do things like crop insurance, so that they actually have farmers after a b
by pixl97 9mo ago
This is why nations tend to have things like large stores of long lasting foods, and do things like crop insurance, so that they actually have farmers after a bad year to feed their people.
It is a very risky profession and unless you want to depend on other nations for your continued survival is absolutely needed.
- novaRom 9mo agoBut how do they store and preserve that surplus for a longer time cheaply? Probably dehydration helps, but it adds some energy and storing costs.
- riffraff 9mo agoI think most national reserves are cereals (wheat, rice) which are naturally long lasting. There's some storage of special products (dairy, pork, famously maple syrup) but those have ad-hoc storage.
- themaninthedark 9mo agoIt's not always stored, sometimes it is spoiled. https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/mississippi-delta-farmers-rice-crops-surplus/ https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/mississippi-delta-farme... At one point more was sent to developing countries as aid but that practice was curbed as it was undercutting local farmers.