"You might be surprised how fast that farmland can turn into housing tracts, highways, schools, shopping malls, and prisons."
So what?
You want to be a farmer, go buy a farm. There's millions and millions of acres for sale. Tell you what, let me know when you buy a farm and I'll buy your first chicken. Okay? Hen or rooster. Up to you.
I looked at a number of farms,with an eye toward purchasing and farming, but there was residential development encroaching on all of them, and I know what that portends. The newcomers will need schools, and all sorts of municipal services. The result will be increased property taxes that will force all the farmers out.