I do understand but there are farms that are just unprofitable and those farmers want the state to subsidise them to continue being unprofitable farmers.

I'm talking specifically about French and German farmers here.

Also your assuming that people buying "farmland" only intend to farm that land. Which is not what I'm talking about at all.

I know that if they sell the land it usually is used for other purposes, because if it wasn't profitable due to government regulation then the land will be repurposed. If a farm was unprofitable due to poor management then someone buying it and making it profitable is the market working as intended, the problem is when a tyrannical government makes the farm artificially unprofitable (extreme climate taxes on everything will do this).

But this is clearly very bad for food security. If a nation repurposes its farmland and then relies on foreign imports for food, disastrous consequences happen if imports are cut off.

This is why it is essential for a nation's government to subsidize domestic food production

This post was edited by El1te on Feb 8 2024 04:03pm