Along those lines, I happen to know one of the foremost experts on the economics of strawberries. (I'm actually just assuming that's his professional status, because how many people can there be studying that?)

A lot of America's advantage over Europe in agriculture comes down to allowing far more synthetic processes, from chemical treatments to genetic manipulation. For strawberries specifically, there's something about how we allow a particularly toxic fumigant to be used that's illegal pretty much everywhere else and is illegal in America for almost any other purpose.