Complete with their own SWAT teams, etc.
When government is involved there is always red tape associated with their benevolence.
Government controls healthcare, student loans, land, so why not our food. That would be the logical next step.
To accept Government ‘money’ in any form is to also accept Government controls on your business and farms and to sign away certain of your privacy rights.
Not sure if it is _this_ specific program, but our county has an incubator for food-based businesses. One that I know of is producing fermented vegetables. The initial total grant was for $400k. Commercial kitchens and processing facilities are available, as is expert advice on marketing.
An organic farmer I know has been trying to find an outlet for their less-than-perfect veggies and small chickens. She has an idea for an organic gourmet chicken pot pie. She has not been able to get either University culinary/food science classes to create one (when presented with the challenge, they came up with many ideas, none of which was a pot pie)nor could she get one of the incubator companies interested. As she explained her goals to one worker, his response was “I don’t see where there is any profit.”
While I don’t think this is some sort of collectivization plan, it may be a way for the funders to control the final product in terms of food PC.
Farm to shelf edibles appears, to this observer, to be a very difficult business. There are numerous requirements for legal plants that are expensive and most of the folks I’ve met in these enterprises are not really marketers. My ag producer friends who sell direct to restaurants or established processors, spend an awful lot of time traveling to meetings. This usually means that they need more managers and workers on their farm and that they have to spend lots of time on the phone or on their tablet. They went into the business out of a love for growing food, not a love for management.