American agriculture is no longer about the family farm—it’s about control, consolidation, and corruption. The government, both state and federal, claims to support the farmer, but in truth, policy after policy has sold them out in favor of massive agribusinesses.
Subsidies and regulations—two sides of the same coin—are wielded not to ensure food security or protect the land, but to secure market dominance for a handful of corporate giants. These conglomerates, armed with lobbyists and campaign donations, manipulate policy to crush small farms, exploit migrant labor, and poison the soil and water with impunity.
From the ethanol mandate to crop insurance scams, the system rewards volume over quality, monoculture over sustainability, and compliance over innovation. The USDA and EPA act more like enablers than watchdogs, while local farmers drown in red tape and debt.
This isn’t free enterprise—it’s cartel capitalism. And until we wake up and start defending the farmer instead of the factory farm, the heartland will continue to rot from the inside out.
