Depressing Prices?

[perfecho]

What other business has a national policy on keeping prices low? (Cheap food policy)What other business increases inventories (herd or acreage size) when the future looks bleak, so as they think they can make a living.(tongue in cheek)Usually it is only artisians who will take on outside jobs to support their passions. Other commoditie driven sectors have "unions" to help maintain production and prices. (OPEC) And even oil barons are "independant", the difference is that they WILL control supply, percieved or actual, to maintain a level of profit.

[Horse]

I agree farmers must be the dumbest lot on the face of the earth when they arnt trying to figure a way to beat thier neibour they are probably trying to cut tre hole out of thier chore coat or they are trying to find a way to make money by increasing production for an already overburdened comodity.
Hope this makes some of you mad enough to explain your theory on making money farming.

[cowman]

I don't think the agriculture industry ever endorsed the "cheap food policy"! In fact you will find it very difficult to ever find any "policy" that ever endeavers to do that?
However defacto that was, and is, the policy of industrial North America? Cheap food means cheap wages...thus giving North America an advantage in what really matters....cheap manufactured goods?
However....how low can you go? Can you compete with slave labor? No, you can't!
Slave labor is exactly what we have in the third world?
This is why, today, we buy most of our goods from China and why our own manifacturers are history?
Is this right? Is this how it should be?