"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..."
Oh, for Pete's sake.
My uncle farms in upstate New York - Finger Lakes region - and his family is doing just fine growing corn. Nobody is "encroaching" on them. In fact, my cousin is an advisor to Dole.
You lay out excuses on why you can't farm - RESIDENTS ARE ENCROACHING ON ALL OF THEM.
You whine like a liberal - all talk, no action.
I suspect you have zero interest in farming, but just want to bitch about "sprawl."
In fact, I think you're associated with the fascist American Planning Association, situating yourself here on FR to disrupt the board.
I've learned that folks with a weak argument, and/or weak debating ability, resort to insults. You have no idea what I've done or not done, and no idea about the realities of sprawl.
Nice wording. They are too, and are trying to rewrite the laws of every municipality and state to get everyone to conform to their idea of what's right.