How can we break the cycle of bigger farms and fewer farmers?

[FBaggins]

1. We can't. That ship sailed decades ago.

The story is about the plight of the mid-sized farm... yet those supposedly "mid-sized" farms are usually the decendants of the farms that gobbled up the family farms not so many decades ago - and they were just a continuation of a well-established trend.

By many accounts, agriculture once represented as much as 90% of the workforce in this country. That dropped to closer to 60% by the time of the Civil War... then 30% around WWI... then half of that by WWII. Down to single-digits in the 60s. Now we're down to somewhere in the 1-2% range.

In other words... it isn't a "cycle". It's an ongoing process continues to devour the comparatively smaller farms - except for those hundreds of thousands of "lifestyle" and "retirement" farms.