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briandmyers  ·  4046 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Don't let your Children grow up to be Farmers

There is something that just might help - end the subsidies.

In NZ, that action led to some short-term pain, but long-term prosperity for a lot of farmers. The link below gives an overview of what NZ did, and what happened.

    In the twenty years since 1986-77, the value of economic activity in New Zealand’s farm sector has grown by 40% in constant dollar terms.

http://www.fedfarm.org.nz/files/2005---Life-after-subsidies---the-NZ-experience.pdf