There is a quasi-religion that believes Big Ag is bad and small farms are better, but economics is a system and economies of scale exists as a principle regardless of human desires to the contrary. Historian Merle Fainsod noted that during WWI, large estates in Russia produced enough grain for urban markets but after the war they were divided up into small shares for most of the peasants and the result was food shortages in the cities.  The landowners were called kulaks and Vladimir Lenin used them to warn that, "Small-scale production gives birth to capitalism and the bourgeoisie constantly, daily, hourly, with elemental force, and in vast proportions.” Joseph Stalin wanted an industrial scale agriculture to feed an industriali...