In the 1960’s the Soviet Union imported millions of tons of wheat from the U.S.
The Soviets did indeed practice “factory farming” and their farms like their factories were so inefficient that they weren’t able to feed their people and their live stock at the same time and couldn’t even afford to pay for their imports without financing for the surplus wheat they purchased.
By contrast the private ownership and operation of farms in the U.S. has been the most efficient in the world precisely because the U.S. farmer is not a factory worker but a cross between artist and business owner seeking to ever greater efficiency to survive and prosper.
That’s not where US farming is headed. Why all the subsidy, which keeps going up? never mind, why is US farming headed in the same direction as the USSR’s farming?
There’s a spiritual dimension to this also. The USSR was a practitioner of state atheism, don’t forget.