As an expert on the subject who has spent my life working with farmers around the globe.
70% of them are fucking superstitious idiots who believe the craziest shit.
25% of them are of average intelligence who do their best and work hard.
5% of the are intelligent wonderful people who are highly technical and skilled.
The socio-economic reasons for why this occurs is interesting (at least to me). Remember farming has had centuries of pressure for migration for rural living to urban. Rural populations are isolated and historically have lacked access to higher education, healthcare, mental health, etc. So you have a constant brain drain, combined with lower relative mental and physical health.
So how the fuck do these morons manage to grow a crop? They outsource the decision making to "trusted advisors". Government agents, agronomist, fieldman, etc. these are the people who are actually making the day to day decisions on most of the these farms. What to fertilize with, what to spray, when to harvest, when to plant etc... they do it all the thinking while the idiots ride around in the luxury tractor cabins letting the GPS stear as they listen to talk radio or watch videos.
Right before midterm elections pretty please. Like 3 weeks before would be perfect. A massive crash with the normal support network in disarray from their stupidity. Triggering a 10 year long depression with up to 25% unemployment.
You know what happened after the last long lasting serious depression? FDR's new deal - union rights, workers rights, social security, corporate regulations and all the other silly things that led to massive enlargement of the middle class at the expense of the extremely wealthy.