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They grow "extra" because they believe someone somewhere else will buy it. It doesn't have to be the US. You think Japan produces all their food domestically?

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well here's the thing. if there's anticipated demand, and they produce that much, then there's no extra.

your position is that the farmers and market forces will produce to demand, ok fine, but then when something unanticipated happens, there will be less supply than was planned for.

I mean, if there is extra then it won't be sold or it will depress prices, so the market should correct for that.

in other words, the market wants supply = demand, or even a little less supply to keep price up a little, which is fine, but implicit in that is that there will be price spikes and stuff and because the market forces will not have overproduction.

I mean it's like saying , who created god, god1, who created god1, god2 , ...