BS, Mrs Smith. I lived in Minnesota for 14 years. My annual hunting trips took me to some very rural areas of MN. The farmers vote Dem. The Dem party in Mn is called the DFL (Democrat Farm Labor). It's stupid, but discussing it with my conservative rural friends (not farmers), they concur, it's all because of the farm subsidies and govt handouts.
Jinx, I don't know what area you live in, but Big Lake, Becker and on to the SW is rampant with DFLers.
I've lived in Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, and Texas (and near Oklahoma.) Why do you think all these states are always red? It isn't the whackos in Kansas City, Omaha, Lincoln, Laramie or {insert big TX cities...way too many}, it's the farmers, ranchers, and small town voters.
There is a Farm Union in the Kansas-Nebraska area that votes Dim...they have all of 1000 or 1200 members.
The vast, vast majority of Midwestern farmers will study the stupid subsidies and collect what they can...but if they can dodge them by planting sunflowers or amaranth or anything else, they'd prefer to earn their money...and not leave their land fallow forever.
If there is one thing farmers and ranchers are NOT - it's morons. I'd like to see any non-farm-raised man or woman do the jobs farmers and ranchers do. The pansy city slickers can't even walk through a pasture without scaring the cattle, getting cactus spines in their boots, and shooting at a horse. I don't know what's wrong with your farmers...but we grow them different down here.