Yes. You just described the split perfectly. Small scale production is going for specialty products, at higher prices, to specialty consumers. Think of a loc

Yes. You just described the split perfectly. Small scale production is going for specialty products, at higher prices, to specialty consumers. Think of a local vegetable farm that sells to farmer's markets, or a goat dairy that's making chevre to sell at specialty groceries in a 50 mile radius of their farm. On the other hand, gigantic companies are increasingly controlling land used for industrial agriculture. Near me, a recently incorporated LLC (aka holding company for investors) just paid $171-million for 14,000 acres of irrigated farmland in Eastern Washington [1]. At that scale, there's simply no way that the traditional "small family farmer" can compete with industrial ag. The few that have near me, are large families that essentially operate like a business. They've managed to hold on to their traditional farmland, and then expanded into what are essentially family-owned large-scale industrial ag operations. Good for them, but they're the strong minority. [1] https://www.heraldnet.com/business/big-farm-deal-171m-for-14500-acres-in-eastern-washington/ https://www.heraldnet.com/business/big-farm-deal-171m-for-14...