There's a parallel here with a lot of other industries... back 10+ years ago, companies like Lamb Weston had a lot of actual farmers in the management ranks, IE

There's a parallel here with a lot of other industries... back 10+ years ago, companies like Lamb Weston had a lot of actual farmers in the management ranks, IE: people who grew up working in the fields. The shift started sometime after 2000 to MBA types who (thought they) knew numbers, but had never been close to the product. My uncle was one of those farmer types who had helped these companies find serious success (he was part of the development of the curly fry, sweet potato fry, etc) and saw the writing on the wall when he retired and saw the type of new era corporate managers that were coming in.