Who said I had a lifted F150? Mine's 22-years old and looks like dogshit, runs great though.

No, I'm not a farmer, but I've been growing for 35-years, majored in horticulture and agriculture at Oklahoma State University, so I guess I know more than your average bear. Fair enough? Let's hear your credentials.

As to history, easy one: Machines and the Great Depression foreclosing family farms. Hell, you don't even need a history book, just read The Grapes of Wrath for a primer. As to history education, I scored 6 free college credits testing on the subject. You score any?

Were you around for the 1980s Farm Crisis? I was. There's another piece of what happened. John Cougar sing ya all about it if you don't care to read.

None the less, I roll 2,800 miles through the South every year. I observe what's what and who's doing it, talk to people. Those are shitloads of struggling family farms I'm seeing. In all those miles, I see exactly one farm that is truly a monster acreage. (TBF: Many of those miles are in Alabama, which is forestry vs. agriculture, another subject altogether. Another subject I'm educated in.)

Again, you want to tell these boys in person they ain't actually farming, mindlessly running machines in the employ of big ag, you go right ahead.

BTW, you ever figure how the quadratic equation works for real-life problems? I know. Farmers know.