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Originally Posted by Azure
At the same time the potato growers of Canada, who routinely sell into the US, have no issue competing. In fact potato growing and processing is a fast growing sector into the Canadian agriculture market, with processing plants being built & expanded upon in Manitoba & Alberta. Most of their production goes south.
You have a good point though, the US doesn't play fair, but I suspect a lot of that will change with the Trump administration.
Corn subsidies as an example are ridiculous and need to be shut down.
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You can’t apply the dynamics of the potato sector to the dairy sector and call it good enough. They are the not the same and have different supply and demand factors at play.
You are also dreaming if you think Trump is going to end subsidies. He will increase them as China goes after US agriculture in the trade war 2.0. He did it the first time around and will do it again. The Republicans cannot politically afford to put farms out of business.