Your so ignorant it's amazing, and you call me the child. Localized small-medium scale farms as well as verticals are the future. Why? Because of every issue I have stated above. I discussed corn and soy in my comment. They're nothing more than a grab on the average farmers balls. Yearly seed orders have to be financed why? No f'n money. And the loss of value on the fields is more devasting than even imaginable.

Stanford Soil Erosion Study : http://large.stanford.edu/courses/2015/ph240/verso2/

You should go drink the water and look at the worm count in your soil after you've poured round up on your soil. I can tell you've never read a soil sample in your life. Goodday buddy.