More than Fed Checks, Policies Should Decrease Farmers’ Market Vulnerabilities

By Madi Clark

Mountain States Policy Center

Farmers across the nation are unlikely to be taking a check to the bank at the end of harvest – at least not checks big enough to cover their debt payments. But the government’s so-called remedies are a lesson in contradiction.

As statistics refute themselves, regulations harm more than protect, and trade barriers exasperate challenges facing domestic producers, the government’s role in farming is only adding to the red.

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