Sure it is but my interest in the article is that farm subsidies is a security issue, not a social one.
It sound like this Dairy is now constrained by it's own security net. The big dairy processors were limited from being truly competetive in order to save the lesser farms. Now one of those farms wants to compete against the big boys and is hitting the same regulations that restricted the big processors. While Smith Brothers Dairy says that they were exempt from the earlier regulations, it does not say that they did not benefit from them.