I know that this is the outcome desired by powerful people, but I was thinking more about the mindset of the farmers themselves. I wonder how many can even make the connection that 40 years ago they had row crops, a little orchard, a couple steers and a little flock of ewes, some ducks by the pond and a couple pigs or dozen chickens. Now they just have row crops and a weekly grocery bill buying stuff trucked in from another state that they used to make themselves or have made locally. I work in a lot of people's houses in a rural area and I often see the old aerial photos of farmsteads, there used to be so many little things going on besides corn, beans and maybe wheat. I wonder how many even remember what they gave up.