>>2575395Growing fields of legal cannabis though not a crime, they have a license as of 2019. As industrialization and collectivization of agriculture into large factory farming food corporations progresses, family farms have to adapt to survive. Gross income on strawberries per acre, according to recent figures, is pretty high at $20k per acre. That's not accounting for your costs as well. You can certainly manage 2 acres by hand, and you could get by, but you could plant half an acre of a more valuable species of strawberry and yield the same return, and they are also very popular at farmer's markets. It's just a higher grade of crop.
Same with ranchers, lot of family ranching operations are now focusing on high grade, open range, grass fed beef. Because the factory farms raise beef at the lowest possible cost on an industrial scale, using steroids and hormones, on monsanto feed or something similar, then covering in preservatives for supermarkets.
