pastera
NES Member
Government inserts itself into the industry through mostly useless regulations having negative value, then they become the savior by offering loans to help offset the costs of compliance.I have not gone to the trouble of doing the math but at first glance, it seems to be a toss up. Definitely fair to say red states produce much of the food. More accurately, they produce much of the raw food products that end up in your Doritos, Twinkees and the frozen food section of your local grocer.
Note for the idly curious who wonder how that food gets to your plate in a restaurant or dinner table — Without huge annual infusions of cash and credit, farmers can’t buy and plant anywhere near the volume of seed and related stuff needed to produce their current output. Beef, pork and chicken as we know them would all but disappear without the feed inputs.