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by 7jjjjjjj 102 days ago
We already have an extremely complicated system of farm insurance and commodity futures for that.
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Yep Kalshi is at best only shrinking the scale of things a farmer could bet on instead of getting proper old style crop insurance (either yield or revenue). It's just cloaking a weather slot machine in "we're helping farmers" language. Agri-washing their betting market if you will.