Reasons for Agricultural Stimulus Package?

Farm commodity prices have been kept deliberately low to help ensure a cheap food supply. Unfortunately that means the cost of production outstrips the sales price of the crops. So if you want farmers to stay in business, you have to subsidize them to keep that cheap food.

Reality is that the cost of producing food has to be paid or no one can produce it. So it's either paid at the cash register or paid by the government.

If the money for such a stimulus program wasn't coming out of my own pocket, I'd be more excited about it. But so far, I haven't found a single government program that actually helps. Most have so many strings attached it's financial suicide to participate.

For the past 50 years the US government has had a policy of cheap food and has used various incentive-subsidy programs to achieve that goal. That's why Americans spend approximately 10% of our income on food whereas most other developed countries spend 25% or more. Poor countries can easily spend two to three times that amount, leaving very little money for anthing else. Why do you think it's so hard to find Wal Marts of McDonalds in poor countries? No disposable income is the reason.

The Ag package is just an extension of previous cheap food programs.

Reduction of farmland ,cost to plant and cost of sold product of the farmer/compared to what we have to pay, the use of corn as a fuel that's cuts the usage of human consumption causing prices to go up because of gov. demand for a viable new fuel source. the reduction of farmers because of technology/I.E. putting alternate genes in vegetables to make them grow better or produce more and the govs. assistance to provide the world with food, when we have such poverty here in our own country.....