▲ 13 ▼ Hard Times in the Delta as Farmers Consider Letting Crops Rot (www.nytimes.com) submitted 9 months ago by silence7@slrpnk.net to c/nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz 2 comments fedilink hide all child comments 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.
[–] Omgboom@lemmy.zip 4 points 9 months ago (1 child) Crops rot while people starve.. permalink fedilink source hideshow 1 child comment replies: [–] harmbugler@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago Thanks, Capitalism! permalink fedilink source parent
[–] harmbugler@piefed.social 2 points 9 months ago Thanks, Capitalism! permalink fedilink source parent