A 100 years ago it would take a 1000 people to plant, maintain, and pick a farm that would take a just one person and a machine to do today. Obviously we don't need as many farmers as we did back then and a result of that is the collapse of the food prices.

Do you really care that with all the spending the government does that farmer subsidies are a problem? I'd rather see more people farming than building bombs, evading my privacy for 'security', and wars fought over ideology.