It is sad but true unfortunately...to bad that the government doesn't realize that it should be farms that should be considered "too big to fail" and not banks.
They should have been bailing out all farmers/farms or at least offering a fair price on animals or property lost due to weather (drought or flooding) or massacre from predators, blight on crops, etc...
We can survive without money, the barter system works quite well, but we can't live without food.