Co-opts are ripe throughout the agricultural sector, but they do have to fight hard to maintain those positions because short-sighted corporate competitors unde

Co-opts are ripe throughout the agricultural sector, but they do have to fight hard to maintain those positions because short-sighted corporate competitors undercut the co-opts pricing with unsustainable practices. Often it is cheaper to pump farmland for all it is worth until the topsoil is depleted and thin, then just buy up different farmland from struggling small farmers who got undercut from the unsustainable practices. While the depleted farmland either gets sold off to developers or gets put into a wildlife program where they get paid rent by the government to leave it fallow. So it is still a battle between people looking for short personal profits against those who are seeking long-term sustainable profits. There is no associated extra costs for depleting farmland or practicing unsustainable farming methods so assholes will continue to abuse it as long as they make money on it.