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>That's "evil" somehow?

The farmer is farms land stolen from Native Americans.

If we go by the odds it isn't some farmer taking out a small loan at Wells Fargo, most wheat is grown by big agribusiness.

The yield on the wheat is so high largely because of government funded fundamental research into agriculture and biology, including genetic modification, which has revolutionized things. Much of this publicly funded research is done by universities under grants from the NSF and such, and they are allowed turn around and sell the resulting patents to the agribusiness conglomerates. Not exactly a free-market miracle.

Wal-mart often demands public subsidies from small towns in order to put their store there, leveraging their massive outside scope and bargaining power with suppliers to be able to make their case to the municipalities.