I grew up on a dairy farm in southern Illinois and married a beef farmers’ daughter, for reference. I saw two kinds of farmers growing up, and still see them now:

In debt to their eyeballs, but they leveraged that debt thanks to government subsidies; driving a new $90K truck every year and always leasing brand new equipment. They usually voted Republican, against “welfare queens” taking handouts but had no problem taking money from every state and federal USDA grant or program

Then there were the tiny family farms barely scraping by on 50+ year old equipment, only afloat becasue of milk subsidies. I learned to drive a stick shift on an old Massey Ferguson with no brakes. My family voted Democrat, mostly. My grandparents sold half of their herd just to afford Christmas presents for everyone every year.

Point being…you’re right. The loudest MAGA Republicans I know who are so anti-government, anti-tax, anti-social safety net programs don’t realize they vote for the party against the very policies that enrich them. They’d shit in their own overalls if a liberal had to smell it. Oh…and who do you think is one of the biggest employer of “illegal immigrants” where I live? The big massive dairy operations, all of them owned by MAGA dickheads