Chart of rice prices. Shows a high of $19/bu in spring 2024, down to $14.50/bu now.

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   Sarah Taber (sarahtaber@mastodon.online)'s status on Friday, 07-Feb-2025 06:08:15 JST Sarah Taber

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   USAID isn't purely foreign aid. It's also a crop price support program!

   When US farmers overproduce crops (which we often do), the gov't buys up the extra & exports it as aid.

   That's USAID.

   Without USAID, we get gluts. WAY too much corn, soy, etc. Prices crash. Makes farmers sad and/or broke.

   Now check out what crop prices have been doing the last 3 years

   and tell me how you think the farm lobby is gonna feel about losing the "buy up gluts to prevent price crashes" program lmao