Supreme Court to hear California raisin growers' case

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3. My mother remembers the time in the 1930s when the farmers

had to dump their crops on the streets. They had grown so much food that their products could not be sold. They could not even give them away. Meanwhile, the soil was depleted. Soil needs to grow alternative crops from time to time. You can't just grow the same thing year after year and expect to have healthy soil. Unfortunately, I don't think we are obeying that law of nature much any more.

The Roosevelt/Truman programs for farmers were complex and intended to help avoid soil depletion, erosion, overproduction that would result eventually in hunger as crops dwindled and farmers could not afford to produce them.

If those programs were abolished, we would probably find ourselves reinventing them.