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Farmers get government subsidies for everything under the sun.

Indeed. I hope more people watch that Milton Friedman video (it's from a 3 part 80s series called Tyranny of the Status Quo) where he discusses agriculture subsidies.

When the price of anything falls low enough (in a free market), people find new uses for it and the market expands. Yaron Brook points this out during his great lecture at The Citadel, also on youtube. If you don't have 2 hours to spend just start at 1:19:25 for a few minutes and you might be convinced to watch the whole video.