The Horrible Truth About Stone Barns . . .

. . . is that it’s all about the tax break:

Super-rich New York city slickers are harvesting big checks from government programs originally set up to save poor family farmers during the Great Depression.

Among the dozens of billionaire sod-busters on both Forbes magazine’s rich list and the federal farm welfare rolls is banker and philanthropist David Rockefeller Sr., who reaped $29,615 from the corn-subsidy program in 2005.

Rockefeller, worth an estimated $2.6 billion, got the government money for farms in Westchester and Columbia counties, according to a database compiled by the Environmental Working Group lobbying organization.

Through a spokesman, Rockefeller, 92, said he’s unlikely to take any more of the money — and that he believes the system needs reform.

Location Scout: Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture.