Which of course is not enough due to other expenses:

https://www.fb.org/market-intel/farm-bankruptcies-continued-...

https://www.adamsandreese.com/the-ledger/rising-farm-distres...

And those farms get bought up and folded into for-profit operations. You simply can't fix this in the current system.

> for food security

They overproduce for votes. Countries without farmer blocks swinging elections stockpile non-perishables for food security.

For both. With or without the voting block, they still serve the purpose of over-producing.

> With or without the voting block, they still serve the purpose of over-producing

Overproduction is the method. Food security the aim. If they weren’t a swing voting block, the overproduction loses purpose.