Control the food, control the people.
Therefore, I think it is the goal of most governments, to control the farmers.
Increasingly, we are seeing governments telling farmers how and what to produce; don't raise cattle, don't use pesticides, fertilizer etc...on the surface, it may seem like a misguided attempt to "save the environment" but, it is really about controlling the food supply.
For many years here in the states, I have heard city dwellers, using derogatory terms when talking about or to farmers. Their perception is generally that farmers are leaches, taking tax dollars from the government coffers (without a useful return to society). Further, farmers are uneducated idiots, with the intelligence of a doorknob. They are backwards, toothless, inbred hay seeds.
We even had a Democrat presidential candidate state:
“I could teach anybody, even people in this room, no offense intended, to be a farmer.
“It’s a process. You dig a hole, you put a seed in, you put dirt on top, you add water, up comes the corn. You could learn that.”
It would behoove any farmers or ranchers who have been taking loans or subsidies from the government to get out of their dependence or become a lacky of the government.