US subsidises its farmers by ...rumoured to be 47%
Japan by 54%.
France by 73%, "to maintain the culture of rural France".
No such subsidies in Australia...as a result family farms are disappearing fast, replaced by big corporate farms.
As luck would have it, family-owned dairy farms will last long enough for my lifetime. China s buying them as fast as it can go. Bought another major company recently, one owning/selling milk juices, including the one I buy [used to buy].
I switched to a local dairy farmers' co op milk, costs more, but hey, the local dairy farmers get to keep the profits.
And local family orange juice company, not owned by China.
China, buying up the world one farm, one house property, one company at a time.