More important if a farmer is hit with bad weather destroying his crop he's likely done for an entire year...Can this "magazine editor" dole out thousands of, maybe tens of thousands of dollars only to have it all be ruined in one day and survive untill the next year?....
In other words if every year over the last 2 centurys a farmer went out of business we would not only be dependent on Arabs for oil we'd also be dependent on, worse yet, someone for or food.
It's nitwits like this "magazine editor" who has no problem with the government going in and shutting off irrigation water to farmers to save bottom feeding sucker fish.
I'll bet this same "magazine editor" would object to letting the farmer sell his farmland for development but have NO problem with the government taking it to save the environment or some phony "endangered species".
I assume then, that when farmers have an especially good year, they return money to the treasury?