One of the things I really like about this show is how it manages to be entertaining, but also shines a stark light on just how *expletive deleted*it upon the people that make our food really are. I can't imagine the US is much better.
I'm only a half assed farmer, but have firsthand knowledge between farming in Idaho and farming in Calif (via the guy my parents leased to). On the fed level, it's really not that bad. Yet. I've dealt with USDA/NRCS in Idaho and they have been super friendly and helpful. Deep state progressives certainly want to change that, especially at the White House level and agencies like the EPA. We've all seen the EPA lawsuits of six figures per day against farming families because rain created a pond/watershed/wetland and suddenly it became a "federal waterway".
California was getting ridiculous before I moved. One of the reasons my parents' renter paid so much per acre to rent their land and grow corn and wheat, besides feeding his cows (he owned a big dairy) was that it was the only way he could keep from going broke removing manure from his dairy. CA declared it a hazardous material, so if you hauled it off, it had to go to Nevada and it cost a fortune to both transport and dump it. There was still a loophole that if you spread it on your land as fertilizer, that was okay. So dairy guys ended up leasing land more to have a place for their manure than to grow crops.
Here in Idaho, my dealings with the state have pretty much boiled down to, "What are you even calling us for? Do whatever you want. What do we care?". That's kind of been changing though, even in just the 5.5 years I've been here, because of the quickly increasing population.
I did a land split last year that took most of the year, and almost every time I went to the county building for paperwork I saw a new sign on the wall about a new regulation. Stuff like "Engineered drawings now required for agricultural outbuildings" (you used to be able to just put up the building as long as it was a barn or for equipment storage or whatever) or "permits now required for woodstoves".
