Farms are "placated" by politics because people don't like starving to death. Which is what happens if you let your food supply be freely buffeted by the boom and bust cycle of the market. That will remain true even after urbanites get their wish to live in pods and drink soy-roach slurry - somebody will still have to grow the soy and roach food.

Farming - growing crops and animal husbandry - are what kickstarted human civilization, and still undergirds it to this day. Until recent history the vast majority of people were still farmers. It really comes automatically to most people, to appreciate the people who toil in the dirt to grow food and wrangle animals so they don't have to. To commune with nature, put in hard labor and in the end produce food is an almost spiritual experience that most people have a positive sentiment for, even if they have no desire to do it themselves.

If you really feel none of that whatsoever I think you're missing part of your humanity.

The small time farmer is a myth in this era. It's industrial farms. There is no need for politicians to deep throat the .05 percent of the economy that is made up of small farmers