> it's easy to teach a few large farmers best practices from ag and soil science. But much, much harder to teach their workers who actually steward the land on

> it's easy to teach a few large farmers best practices from ag and soil science. But much, much harder to teach their workers who actually steward the land on large farms. Farmers have some incentive to listen, but farmhands couldn't care less. They are just there to collect a paycheque. The long-term viability of the operation means nothing to them – they can always get a job somewhere else. The more decentralized farming, the more farmers, and thus more people who have reason to care and fewer people who have no reason to care.