around here, cities will buy up farms just for the water rights, so the land prices are so high, nobody sane would go into that business.
forget all the high tech AI laser weeding machines. those might add an edge to large, already successful operations.
Getting started or renewing a failed operation is a 24 hour per day job. Sure, it's a crisis
A lot of advocates of building restrictions did it in the name of preserving nature/farmland/greenspace, but in many ways it’s had the opposite effect:
you never lived in California?
The urban sprawl there ate up all of the orange groves, for example... in Orange County!
It used to be at least one of the kids would take over the farm, but now as parents age out, there's simply too many better opportunities with less hard effort out there and fewer are interested in staying in the business.