We raised goats when I was a kid(yuk, yuk). Not a herd, it was for 4-H, but enough to have fresh milk.
All the farmers in the area would go have coffee at this place early Saturday mornings. My ol' man was an electrical contractor who grew up here so he went to shoot the shit with the farmers. They talked glibly about how they Govt. was paying them not to farm. The next week he was asking them about building a silo and what all it entailed. After a while someone asked him why he needed a silo. Straight faced he told them, "I need storage for my wire nuts." "The govt. is going to start paying me not to wire houses." Needless to say they didn't think it was quite as funny as he did.
Paying farmers not to farm has been a thing for some time. Not sure about dairy farmers and not interested in looking it up. I imagine it would be similar. Meanwhile, anyone need wire nuts...