There are farmers and their are ranchers. Both produce the food we eat. Farmers have been receiving subsidies for years. Ranchers annually lose livestock, to various causes. The difference being that ranchers do not enjoy the benefits of subsidies, that increasingly benefit large corporate farm operations.
Actually I do a little of both to a certain extent, I don’t claim to be an expert I only own the land, but I’m quite certain without subsidies we would see a depression in farm country of epic proportions.