my uncle was a lifelong farmer in rural southern MD, farmed conventionally: tobacco, corn, soybeans, winter wheat for commodities. Kitchen garden for food. Loved the farm so much he once chased a surveyor for a mega transmission line (for electricity) off the property by getting his shotgun (they didn't put the line through HIS farm). He put the entire farm into the MD farm conservation program (it will NEVER be developed into a bedroom community for DC workers like other now defunct farms in the area). He lost one kidney to cancer, got back on the tractor, lost the other kidney and his life when the cancer came back. At least the smaller farms in MD have the ability to convert to organic/regenerative methods due to the proximity to people who want to eat food that isn't contaminated. In the Heartland it will take the commitment of the megacorporations that buy the commodities to help farmers transition to better methods before those "conventional" farming methods kill the soil and the farmers....