“These days in agriculture, to be profitable and survive, you have to get bigger and bigger," he said. "To be honest, sometimes it seems like the government doesn’t understand how agriculture actually works in the field.” 

This is nothing new. Allow me to quote some other farmer, griping about the cluelessness of the government on the subject of farming:

"Were we directed from Washington when to sow, and when to reap, we should soon want bread."

He said it about  1821...