Oh, absolutely. There are major farms operating on a completely different scale for mass staple crops, and bless them because it's an efficient backbone to a lo

Oh, absolutely. There are major farms operating on a completely different scale for mass staple crops, and bless them because it's an efficient backbone to a lot of our core foods. But I don't think the continued existence of small farms is that obscure either is it? This is now 3 year old (2017) data [0], and the last few years have been hard. But it's not that out of date yet nor did it shift that much from 2012 [1], the overwhelming majority of the few million farms in America are small family owned operations with <$100k annual income. Average size just 450 or so acres and even that is skewed up by the few percent of enormous farms. I guess I'm just kind of fascinated the first few comments on something like this would be about it being "hobbyist". Anything that could lower operating costs and externalities for small farms also deserves a bit more positive attention. ----- 0: https://www.usfarmdata.com/percentage-of-small-medium-and-large-farms-in-the-us https://www.usfarmdata.com/percentage-of-small-medium-and-la... 1: https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2016/SmallFamilyFarms.pdf https://www.nass.usda.gov/Publications/Highlights/2016/Small...