The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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‘industrial’ farmers will adjust (not like they’ve been rolling in $ last few years). It will mean higher prices for consumers. As it is, my impression is that crop subsidies/insurance programs are much reduced from what they were 30 yrs ago. My family hasn’t raised cattle in decades but I don’t remember beef subsidies ever being a thing.

subsidy programs seem to be a game of musical chairs. Solar farms being the new variant. I can’t believe that such enterprises will be profitable in the tornado belt without government ’protections’ but solar companies are pushing hard to buy and lease land. There are concerns that if government solar incentives go away, the solar companies will abandon the hardware, leaving it for landowners to clean up. Many of the solar operators seem to be foreign owned so legal recourse would be ‘complicated’