What I really don't understand is the current snafu where we are refusing to accept Chinese tomatoes and not selling them enough of our soy. Why aren't we growing our own tomatoes, instead of soy, and China growing its own soy, instead of tomatoes?
This is approximately equally divided between corn and soybean.
Two crops that shouldn't be grown here. What a cohencidence. I've heard that the Midwest was originally pretty much 100% forest from the Appalachians to the Mississippi river. Maybe converting it all to now-misued farmland was a mistake.
What I really don't understand is the current snafu where we are refusing to accept Chinese tomatoes and not selling them enough of our soy. Why aren't we growing our own tomatoes, instead of soy, and China growing its own soy, instead of tomatoes?
>This is approximately equally divided between corn and soybean.
Two crops that shouldn't be grown here. What a cohencidence. I've heard that the Midwest was originally pretty much 100% forest from the Appalachians to the Mississippi river. Maybe converting it all to now-misued farmland was a mistake.
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