The free market solution is to end all government payments to farmers.
A shirt tail relative in Iowa has collected over $1 million over the past 10 years from programs like this.
I don’t agree with the farm subsidy program but I know that farms produce our sustainance. Meanwhile, there is wide spread abuse in food stamps, also administered by the Ag Department, and there is no move to fix that problem caused by people who are contributing nothing except CO2.
This problem can be fixed pretty easy, just attach a penalty to the subsidy application “failure to abide by the rules of the program means the subsidy is actually payment for the property which will be forfeited to be put up for sale. If that does not ensure compliance, nothing will.
Food stamps should be done away with and direct gifts of foodstuffs should be made. Boxes of sustainance could be distributed, say by UPS, Fed Ex or the post office each week. End of fraud as bartering away food stuffs is much harder than selling food stamps or buying stuff that should not be on the menu of a maintanance program IMO.