I live in farm country. I know a great many farmers. They know and love their land. They are also susceptible to propaganda and misinformation, and bad ideas sp

I live in farm country. I know a great many farmers. They know and love their land. They are also susceptible to propaganda and misinformation, and bad ideas spread virulently in a small and isolated population. Where I live, for instance, poor practices (up and down ploughing, use of pesticides, exclusive monocultures and no crop rotation) have resulted in awful topsoil depletion and dwindling yields - which is universally accepted to be the fault of Spain, as they “keep all of the water from the river behind dams” - never mind that a cursory inspection of the watercourse from space reveals precisely zero dams in Spain. They aren’t stupid people - but a general low level of education and a barren media sphere allows odd ideas to take hold, unchallenged.