Since monolithic agribusinesses are where the action is, the few independent farmers out there usually get paid by the government to not plant, to plow crops under at harvest time, or to ship off their output as surplus to federal warehouses all over the country where the foodstuffs rot: all this for the sake of maintaining artificially high prices. A true example of American Something For Nothing. As the taxpayers are the ones footing the bill for this form of welfare, namely, handouts to people who are usually land-wealthy millionaires, it's a matter of the $$$ of many going into the hands of the relative few who are already well heeled. The Republican Dream. Sucker the little people so that the rich can laugh all the way to the bank. That's conservative values for you. And considering that the taxpayers get fleeced again at the supermarket when they pay those artificially high prices for food, someone else is getting over again. Subsidies to farmers should have been phased out decades ago, yet those thieves and influence peddlars in the GOP Congress OKed hundreds of billions of dollars in this type of wasteful handouts to the rich over the next decade. That's sound leadership for you!!! That's our so-called leaders looking out for the average person!!! Seems to me its more like millionaire protectors of the millionaires continuing to line the pockets of other millionaires at the public's expense. Vote Republican folks!!! If you like the idea of your tax dollars going into the pockets of millionaire farmers to sit around and scratch their butts, Vote Republican!!!