Anyway, BE, that is very important and controversial video. Thank you for hooking us up with it. How do we solve this problem over the long term? If we keep the prices artificially too low, we cheat foreign producers who don’t have those subsidies to fall back on. We are constantly being reminded of this by African and S. American farmers now.

The other side is that our costs of living are substantially higher than in many of the competing countries’ markets, so how do we balance this so that our farmers aren’t undercut by low wage issues?

These are problems that have been exacerbated by the IMF and the World BanK systems of forcing farmers in countries under their sway, to produce and sell their produce at ridiculously low prices to markets deemed appropriate by the loan institutions. Many have quotas, per acre, that they must fill, regardless of their own personal needs.

Just as we see in Wall St. and Congress, there is no Free Market globally or nationally. Fingers are on the scales from all directions, and those who can’t reach up that high, have no say in the matter.