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How about you grow stuff Americans want, rather than what the govt will buy and give away overseas ?
You know - like Trump suggested.
This statement shows that you don't understand much about modern, mechanical farming.
It's a lot of expensive equipment specialized for picking & packing the crop you are harvesting. One of my vendor's combines are $500k to start & it only picks cotton.
This makes it very difficult & expensive to just change crops on a whim. Not to mention, you can only grow what your soil & climate will actually grow. Soybeans are wonderful for nitrogen fixation so it's pretty common to grow between other crops.