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Many of food staples cannot be produced at a profit without subsidies, corn in particular. Since all of our farms are for profit farmers will destroy their crops Grapes Of Wrath style to drive up prices.
Why do you think they would need a subsidy in order to be profitable?
I haven't read the Grapes of Wrath - wouldn't "defecting" farmers who didn't destroy their crops have an advantage?
They currently do need subsidies to be profitable. Farmers destroying their own crops to raise prices is a well documented historical fact and it still happens today particularly when it comes to livestock. This is not my abstract conjecture.
But in the examples I'm familiar with, they do it because of regulation or collusion, not because of a lack of subsidies.