The government has already said that it won't "give it straight to farmers." Farmers are going to have to do environmentally nice things, as yet unspecified, and open the land up, etc. (sure, let the public trample all over their fields!), before they'll get any dough. And you can bet your life that it'll be a damn sight less than they get now. Most farms in this country rely on subsidies to survive. This is a time bomb. Yet why make it a priority when agriculture generates less than 1% of GDP, said the cynic...