> Don't know if it was intentional, but this maligns some of the hardest-working and down-to-earth people that I've ever known as crooked.

you misread me.

I don't mean, they rip off other farmers, I mean subsidy farming.

In the UK there were such things as flying herds, that were bussed in when inspections were due. Do they get rich from it? fuck no, does it allow them to survive, it did, until the UK government threw them under a bus.