Most would rather be free to make their own planting decisions and rely on their productivity to compete in a free global market.
The government's support prices are designed to protect the most inefficient among them. And whenever there is a vote, the farmer who plants 2000 A of corn has only one vote, no more than the farmer who plants 20 A.
It's a shame..schemes like these are supposed to benefit the farmer, but anyone I ever heard about (and a couple I've talked to personally) all tell me they see little if anything from these "supports." In Pennsylvania, there is a milk marketing board which sets an artificially high minimum price for milk; yet the dairy farmers receive little of that money. Where does it go? I think I know -- politicians' pockets.
Little by little the family farm is disappearing...when it's gone completely, we will be stuck with corporations which will charge ridiculously high prices for their products. And everything will be genetically altered or grown with pesticides and chemicals -- you'll find few, if any, organic farmers. Not only that, but a tradition -- a way of life -- will be lost forever.