Organic Farming Could Save Thousands of U.S. Farms Now Suffocating from Debt

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Millionaires receive the largest portion of farm subsidies, not small farms. It’s time for small, organic farms to take their power back.

Openhearted Rebel

By Christina Sarich, The Mind Unleashed

The U.S. Department of Agriculture just released its biannual report on farm incomes, and it looks bleak. Farmers are drowning in debt, and it’s being blamed on a poor dollar and dropping grain prices, but let’s look at some additional factors which may be bankrupting the farmers of the U.S., and some easy ways to save them.

-U.S. farms grow tons of government-subsidized GMO corn to be used for ethanol. This practice is killing our soil, and bankrupting farmers. It is also totally unnecessary since we shouldn’t be relying on oil for energy anymore. Costa Rica, Iceland, and Bonaire are three countries that are already running 100% on green energy. Let farmers grow hemp instead.

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