[Cody-99]

>The entire agriculture industry — a bedrock of U.S. security — rests squarely on the shoulders of the American farmer.

Weird thing to have in an article about farmers who primarily export their food.

[runako]

Yeah, I'm trying to figure out why it should matter who owns these farms to anyone who doesn't own one. Impact to our food supply seems minimal at best. At worst, we are taking taxes from teachers to send to these rich farmers, which seems like terrible policy.

[bfdm]

Not a an expert in this area at all, but I suspect there's an aspect here if maintaining productive capacity to replace imported food, if that became unavailable. Cursory searching suggests US food exports are similar in scale to food imports. Roughly speaking, with some adaptation that export capacity could be redirected for domestic nutrition.

If, in contrast, you let those farms and skill dry up it would be difficult to rebuild quickly.

[mlinhares]

Cos then you'll believe the story and side with the farmer that voted for the leopards and will vote for them again in the next election cos the "coastal elites are out of touch".

[throwawaysleep]

Family farming is just a welfare grift at this point.