Source: Brownstone Institute
by Joel Salatin
“Question: What does a business do when nobody wants its product or services? Answer: It asks for the federal government to bail it out and pay for a product nobody wants. If this sounds silly to you, consider what’s going on with America’s soybean farmers who lost a quarter of their market when China decided to switch sourcing to Brazil and Argentina in the last couple of months. As a farmer myself, my heart breaks for the plummeting prices and the prospect of losing $200 per acre on the 2025 crop. But on the other side of my breaking heart is a desire to hear any soybean farmer say, ‘I’m going to grow something profitable.’ … What kind of economic gymnastics makes soybean farmers think they deserve taxpayer subsidies for a commodity in oversupply?” (10/25/25)