I can't speak to what it's like in other places, but the amount of information you have to provide the government about your operations is astounding.
The conversations at family get togethers (5 family members who farm as their main or sole source of income) is that they wish they'd pull the subsidies, let them farm the way the want to and stop meddling in production matters and focus on foreign markets. But it's a vicious circle with the way government is so involved in it. If you don't take the subsidies, you go belly up. Dairy farmers have it the worst IMO. All the guys I helped as a teenager are now gone. Pork production is close to the same situation.
Here's an example of how jacked it is and this is at the state level, so far I've been talking about the fed level. Mary Lou sells skim milk in Florida. 100% pasteurized skim milk is the only ingredient. The state gov says that's imitation skim milk because their definition of skim milk is 3 ingredients. Mary Lou doesn't put 2 vitamin additives in her milk, so it needs to carry an imitation skim milk label. Mary Lou was ordered to stop selling her skim milk as it was misleading her customers. Lawyers were engaged. The gov lost and then lost again on appeal. Mary Lou was able to start selling her skim milk labeled as skim milk after 5 years of idiocy required her to dump it all.
I'm on a Covid bender, so I reserve the right to delete this rant later.