The rental of farming fields goes back to time inmemorial. In fact it is only a modern progress that has resulted in ownership actually working the fields they

The rental of farming fields goes back to time inmemorial. In fact it is only a modern progress that has resulted in ownership actually working the fields they own. This is where the feudal lords came in and what peasants actually were. It is still pretty rare to find small farmland ownership in all of south america and asia. USA is the exception, not the rule.