st.helier wrote:
> Interesting article; most relevant to New Zealand, a country which
gives no
> subsidies or other assistance whatsoever to its wine industry.
>
> We just "love" level playing fields (and no s******ing from the US
either -
> despite all the "free trade" rhetoric - you are just as bad - maybe
not in
> the wine industry - but in the greater primary sector
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Too true, StH. For many years, the US has had a government-run
quota-and-price-support system for virtually the whole agriculture
industry. The only realistic way to stay out of it is to go into
organic farming (or wine "farming").

Dan-O