It will be the largest ones that are operating with significant leverage and debt load.
Nothing in your post justifies agriculture subsidies. They are no different from subsidies to wind power or electric-car-makers. The fact that you approve of food production and, thus, approve of subsidies to it makes no difference.
The government must not use dollars confiscated from its citizens to provide favored treatment to a particular business or industry.
You’re right. Nothing in my post justifies ag subsidies... because I wasn’t trying to justify ag subsidies.
So I guess I accomplished my goal..
What I was doing was correcting the notions that a) smaller farms are the ones on the grift, and b) that they’d go out of business if subsidies were reduced or eliminated.
The big farms are the the ones pulling down the big grift, and I won’t shed a tear to see them go under.