Agriculture has been practiced for THOUSANDS of years on Earth, but only in the last century or so has it been industrialized oh-so-much (especially in the United States). Agricultural policies (which basically means the stuff the big guys regulate about agriculture) in the 1970’s set the stage for the present when they stared encouraging the overproduction of commodities, especially corn and soy. Producers became more and more reliant on government subsidies as spending money . Basically, the policies made it hard for producers to actually make a profit selling what they grew because the government had set prices so low.
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