Even if there were no farm subsidies or agricultural tariffs anywhere in the world, how can the playing field be called “level” when some countries do not impose or enforce environmental regulations?
The global landscape will never be perfectly level. China has less than 9% of world’s arable land and 22% of the world’s population; their soil is depleted and their water is listed as the most polluted in the world; they haven’t an extension service or outreach to educate their farmers nor do they have a farm organization to represent their interests. Some regions of Brazil have huge transportation cost just to get to market with their grain. Farmers in Argentina are required to pay a 22% input tax and a 23% value-added tax on exported raw commodities. Some developing countries seem incapable of governing themselves. When you look at it like that, few farmers around the world enjoy the advantages that we enjoy farming in the United States. Don’t sell short the ability of the American farmer and rancher to compete and prosper.
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