Yes they would drop till farms started shutting down . Then when Monsanto buys all the land that all the other smaller farmers had to sell you end up with a monopoly . It ' s really scary how much power the big farms already have . Once they have a monopoly they set the prices . Kinda how when Rockefeller owned all the oil refineries it made gas prices almost double right after falling to record lows . He would flood the market with cheap oil to force smaller companies to sell theirs cheaper than they could produce it . When they lost money , he came in and bought their company . That ' s why we have subsidies . Big business is in farming just like everything else . Subsidies protect smaller farmers and in turn keep prices down .