This is consistent with something I have been noticing for some time. How farmers are getting squeezed by reduced competition in the industry.
https://www.iatp.org/blog/201710/trumps-usda-does-bidding-meatpackers-turns-back-farmers-ranchers
My 85 year old farmer uncle explained to me that you can't make much money growing corn, because seed corn costs $80 an acre. Then a friend of mine that works at a local John Deere implement dealer explained just how incredibly expensive farm equipment was. I had already heard how Tyson abuses chicken farmers. Forcing them to buy feed from Tyson, controlling the prices they get for the chickens, and making the farmers take all the risk when infections break out in their stock.
So farmers get squeezed on the front end by suppliers and get squeezed on the back end by concentrated markets, while feeling the effects of a high dollar.