There are, by definition, two million farms in the US. The vast majority of farms in this country (90%) are owned and operated by individuals or families. The next largest category of ownership is partnerships (6%). The “Corporate” farms account for only 3% of U.S. farms and 90% of those are family owned. There are still a lot of small farmers out there making a good living from farming.
Unfortunately for those who idealize the hippie farmer and his divinity with the land, less than 50,000 of all those farms account for more than 50% of sales of agricultural products. The trend is toward concentration in agricultural production so that the necessary efficiencies can be achieved to produce the incredible amount of food demanded by domestic and foreign markets at competitive prices.
Some people who don't understand how markets work -- all the government interference advocated by some here notwithstanding -- think that this is really some kind of conspiracy to place food production under the control of others (GOSPLAN?). Tin foilers willingly believe in all sorts of things it seems, except markets.
Stick your "tin foilers." And it is all done with subsidy that ends up in a corparations pocket. Without the subsidy the corn and bean racket bellies up the "family" farmer goes to work as a greeter and the corparation cuts out the middle man and farms millions of acres for greater "effiencies." Which will be so important to America that it will become a synthesis of government and business otherwise known as Facism, price setting on a scale that the legacy air carries could have only wished for. I'll take the "hippie" Amish farmer and others who realize farming is a cultural based undertaking versus the industrial model anyday. I grew up on a farm in the Illinois I know the racket.