Technology generally does not make them more money. Often technology gets forced on them whether they like it or not because some other farmers adopt it, lower

Technology generally does not make them more money. Often technology gets forced on them whether they like it or not because some other farmers adopt it, lowering their costs and thus lowering the price of the already tiny margin crops being produced so they make the same as what they did before. They just get a small one time bump in income before the market adjusts to the new price. And now every farmer has to adopt it just to keep making the same amount of money they were making before, or in some cases to make less than they did before but if they didn't adopt it they would lose money. Also, the idea of the hard working farmer is totally antiquated in developed countries. Almost all farms are huge monoculture cash croppers. The farmers sit in self-driving tractors looking at porn on their phones all day for a few weeks per year.