Some of the problems I see: Farmers who have amassed vast amounts of land and wealth from farming, ensure their children get a good education - and that very rarely leads back to farming. Farming is gambling against nature. As nature gets harsher and harsher, and the land gets more and more depleted, it's a fools game to get into. And for anyone wanting to get into farming as a first gen farmer, the infrastructure investment is overwhelming and the returns not that great. The old timers have amassed this infrastructure over the years (from back when everything was much more affordable). Now you'd be struggling to make a viable business case to invest unless you're farming at a serious scale, and it's unlikely a new farmer will start out at that level... Just my thoughts.