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Fertiliser doom warning! Pesky humans set to wipe selves out AGAIN

Alan Brown Silver badge

"The farmer doesn't pay for it, you do! "

Yup and they'll adapt to suck up every available bit of subsidy.

On the other hand, axing farm subsidies is beneficial.

New Zealand did exactly that in 1984 and as a result has far better-run farms, producing high quality products at a low price (quite simply because if you don't produce what people want to buy, you go out of business instead of being propped up by the state)

The result can be seen here in the UK. NZ meat products have changed from being something you bought because it was cheap and you couldn't afford anything better to being a premium product (and thanks to the french blocking EU imports, most of the really good stuff sells into japan or the middle east)

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