Comment: I'm not sure you understand

what makes a free market actually work to everyone's benefit.

First off, the water rights ARE a big portion of the subsidies we need to eliminate. Without them, irrigation becomes exponentially more expensive with larger and larger operations. This would help the smaller farmers.

The poorer among us are so because there is no free market in food. If there was, we would have much cheaper and healthier food for them to eat. Technology works both ways unless one side controls it.

Also... I wasn't advocating that all farmers go under, just corn. It's pure evil these days. This single crop should make up less than 1% of our diet and none of our large animal feedstock and that should be it. Instead, we have allowed our government to manipulate the market so that we pay nearly 50% of its cost via subsidies and then get forced to pay high prices for it to be used more than 99% towards what it shouldn't.

There's a permaculature farm in England that went under a few years ago. They switched to this new-fangled technique and it took 5 years for their crop to mature but now things are different. They no longer need to plant, cultivate, fertilize, spray herbicides or pesticides. They employ twice as many people year round to just harvest the more than 30 different crops they produce.

There's a building in Chicago called 'The Plant' which grows tons of produce, produces beer and many other things and it's full-circle sustainable. Compared to a traditional farm, it's also 100's of times the yield per footprint in both output and cashflow.