Since the larger corporations control all aspects of the farming industry, the family farmer is finding it increasingly more difficult to compete. The large corporations also affect the markets via globalization. In the 1990s, processed foods such as vegetable oil surpassed traditional exports of wheat, feed grain and soybeans. However, the larger agricultural corporations invested in other countries, and set up production and selling of processed foods. These sales now exceed the export of processed food from the United States, according to the Rural Ministry Advisory Committee report.
Domestic policy can no longer adequately control prices.
Prices of wheat are below what it can be produced for. Many external markets are flooding the system. Canadians are producing the same wheat and flooding the market. They are dumping wheat in the United States so prices are down. The 1996 Freedom to Farm Bill removed government control of what and how much was farmed.