Industrial farming of the sort you describe is destroying arable land, and relying on petrochemicals and strip mines to keep marginal land on life support. Pro

Industrial farming of the sort you describe is destroying arable land, and relying on petrochemicals and strip mines to keep marginal land on life support. Properly managing the land using a mix of perennial crops and occasional rotation to pasture restores the soil, builds fertility, and requires very little in the way of inputs. Healthy plants in a polyculture setup where niches have been pre-filled also resist weed invasion better than monocultures. We do a lot of stupid shit in farming for the sole reason that farm machinery is specialized, and proper land management costs more (in the short run, in the long run the land is much more productive).