| davy crockett - 2/4/2026 15:43 i`m doing taxes now and in my case I got roughly $100/acre from the govt, that paid most of my seed expense, I definitely wasn`t out looking to buy farms with my USDA money. it`s true crop insurance is subsidized maybe 1/3rd or $25/acre?, just not enough to really make a difference between success and failure. jmo
When I speak of land costs being out of line because of govt subsidies I’m mainly speaking of “rent”. That $125 you get from the govt gets immediately bid into cash rents.
In a roundabout way, what land rents for gets figured into land values. Development $’s come into play here also. Wind and solar subsidies end up getting bid into land values.
Basically any time that the govt subsidizes anything to do with real estate (including ag subsidies, wind, solar, CRP, CREP, etc, AND housing (through 1031 exchanges)) that money eventually gets funneled into farm land values.
The only people that benefit from subsidies are those that already own the land. Outside of young farmer loans, none of the rest of the govt subsidies benefit beginning farmers. They’re all entry barriers.
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