Yes, it is. BUT it is really about government control. The subsidies are generally small, the controls generally very large. My family has owned/farmed land in this county since 1889. Federal Farm Control began during the Great Depression. The whole farm program is an expensive way to stabilize farm commodity prices. It may have been well intentioned, but it a terrible bureaucracy.
Until Obozo I felt the farm program was the Fed's method of supplying cheap food to keep the masses from overthrowing the vermin in DC. Since Obozo, they plan to destroy all private farming. Just wait to see the consequences of that.
Note to self -
get that chicken coop built
get those rabbit hutches built
get that garden plot ready
get those quail eggs in the brooder...