Inode, the point is that we are propping up an economy that is directly competing with American soybean farmers. Hate to tell you but the competition was underway during planting & growing season. Once the harvest is underway, the competition if over. Prices are then set by supply land demand and nothing else.
When I was a kid my dad owned restaurants, and one day a guy came in and told him, "I'm done, I'm leaving, I've got a crop of tomatoes, what'll you give me for it? They made a deal, and my dad told us (the kids), every one is going to pick tomatoes. We didn't know about thing it, but he did so, he told us how to get started and he went back to work. And we started picking.
On that day I came to understand supply and demand. We loaded up our truck (and sometimes our Galaxy 500) with tomatoes we had picked and boxed every day, and went to the "tomato shed" on the south side of our tiny town of 5000 people. You picked your best lugs of each grade of tomatoes, put them on display buyers would walk by and bid on them. Who ever won the bidding tagged them, and took your tomatoes ver the buyer's sheds and got check as they were offloaded.
You got what you got. It was not subject to further negotiation, you could take it or leave it. It was a great education for an eight or nine year old kid. Because this is how markets work all over the world. Whether it is USA, China, or Argentina. The competition is there, but not subject to control. It is whole point of it. |
