21. This represents an inappropriate use of land which might otherwise grow needed crops and so save imports, particularly animal feedstuffs, forest products, chemical feedstuffs and fuels. 22. We rent the land and grow the crops. 23. Also, the farmers Galinat had made arrangements with to grow his seed were just growing crops for more seed. 24. And many farmers are continuing to grow these crops, despite a rise in consumer resistance. 25. Beginning farmers like the arrangement because they start up with less investment in land and equipment than it takes to grow crops. 26. All farmers try to grow crops that resist disease and last long enough to arrive safely at the market. 27. Airplanes could not fly, trucks could not deliver food and farmers could not grow crops. 28. Clinton may also suggest other changes in the settlement, including provisions designed to protect tobacco farmers, such as subsidies to grow other crops. 29. Congress may move to simply buy some out and provide assistance to others to grow another crop. 30. Crop-substitution programs designed to persuade Third World peasants to grow legal crops cannot compete with the profits that drug prohibition makes inevitable. |