The August Busch Family farms just South of me about 12 miles.  They own and farm thousands of acres in my County. In the Late 80's and Early 90's we were the Exodus point for a lot of Capitol coming out of St. Louis. So, yeah, we're competing with Billionaires, and lot's and lot's,(still) of 1031 money. There was a brief period in the late 1990's, Very Early 2000's, where you could kind of make things work. Since then, it's just a treadmill and you can't actually keep up with it from earnings.