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Not to mention the "subsidy" that farmers themselves received via land grants in the past, often passed forward to today's farmers (those who haven't sold to larger companies).
One of the craziest things to me is that the land used for farming is worth a lot more if you choose to and are able to use it for something else. There's an opportunity cost that only exists because these folks didn't factor today's price of land in to their equation as a cost.