From listening to multiple sources within the ag industry, farmers are going to be highly variable in usefulness. There are some that spend time figuring out soil fertility, irrigation and drainage rates, ways to combine crops on fields to increase yields and reduce weed and parasite incidence, and otherwise act as good stewards of the land.
Then there are those that just follow the instructions from seed and pesticide companies and farm-by-number. They'd be much less valuable without the massive chemical infrastructure they depend on to tell them what to do.
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