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It's not remotely a peaceful life (lemmy.world)

submitted 9 months ago by Stamets to c/memes

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I keep hearing this, but someone has to be making money on corn or there wouldn't be corn. My guess is that the margin is so thin that the only way to put any appreciable amount of money away to get you through a market dip is to do tremendous volume, which would cause the industry to tend to push out small farmers, which kicks off a feedback loop because the big conglomerates are even bigger and can take even longer bad times, so they can snap up even more failed small farmers, etc etc ad nauseaum.