Prices for nearly every major U.S. crop are below what it costs to grow them. But a drop in rice prices means another blow to farmers in Mississippi’s agricultural belt.

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    16 hours ago

    We subsidize for corn syrup and sugar to a large degree too, products americans get way too much of, because they are artificially cheap, it’s a cheap filler in processed foods.