Originally Posted by gale
I don't know if cotton is like other commodities but I can tell you that if the price of products containing corn/wheat/soybeans goes up at the store, that doesn't mean the farmer is getting more for them. We are living proof.
Very true! The land around here was once prime cotton producing fields, and my grandparents farmed and picked cotton. I haven't seen a cotton field in probably 20 years.
For some crops, there were government subsidies paid NOT to grow them. Used to produce tons pf peanuts here, too. Last year, there was one local farmer produced a peanut crop, and some of the fields are just empty.