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Much of the subsidies for corn comes from ethanol production mandates. I believe that it is less efficient to hire famers, use fertilizer, drive huge diesel using tractors, use millions of gallons of water, all to turn corn into alcohol fuel. I think it is a lot easier to pump oil out of the ground. Also, because of the economies of scale of faming, it is generally the huge conglamerates that tend to benefit from subsidies. If we had a subsidy-free farming system and huge farms developed, then I would be ok with it. As it is now, I am a little squeamish about all of our food supply being produced by a few companies.
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