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Originally Posted by ZenGum
I'm too lazy to look for recent facts, but a while back the Agricultural industry was destroying large amounts of oranges and lemons etc to keep prices up. Are they still doing that?
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Well, Mr. Lazy, I did a quick google on citrus dumping and discovered that Brazilian growers have been dumping their fruit into the US market at below levels of cost of production. The Brazilians were forced to drop this practice and as a consequence, citrus prices in the US climbed higher.
I don't know what that has to do with anything unless Brazil wants to give their crop to poverty stricken US citizens. Brazil has an appalling level of poverty all of its own. I imagine that if the Brazilian industry decided to be so charitable, it would look to Recife and Sao Paulo brfore taking on Denver or Kansas City.