Even the smaller equipment of today have computer controls for precision rows,plants,and picking. They run off of a wi-fi GPS connection. LOTS of farm equipment today on even small farms,never mind the monster mid-western farms,costs more than the farmer's house,and is only used a couple of months a year at most.
If you have enough money to buy a farm and the equipment needed to run it,you have no freaking business working.
Over the years in the oil patch, I ran into more than a few farmers who were roughnecking to make enough money to keep the farm going. One of those guys had a well come in on his property, where he owned the mineral rights, too and commented "All right! I have royalty checks coming in! That should be enough to let me farm another 20 years!"
What people don't get is that farming and ranching are not just a 'job'. They are a way of life, often one which has been practiced for multiple generations by a family. It isn't for everyone, and it is a lot of work--every day, not just Monday through Friday 9-5, although there are times more slack than others, there is always something to do. As much a continuing heritage as a vocation, it is not something easily surrendered, nor is the adjustment to a set schedule at someone else's behest an easy one.
You grow to love the land you farm, if you are worthy of it, and you observe it, care for it and are a good steward of that land. My family has farmland which has been in tillage (one crop or another, rotated) for over 300 years. I'd love to live there, but it takes 9 permits to cut down a tree planted by an ancestor 180 years ago because that wasn't good cropland. Those 20 plus acres of red oaks are prime, and will decay on the stump because of government. (Millions of dollars worth of timber.)
The fisheries industry in the estuary they are near was destroyed by a government release of chemicals to reduce aquatic vegetation for pleasure craft--which eliminated all aquatic vegetation in the estuary and beyond in the late 60s, but the rules for a Scenic River were only to keep the view, not function. I could go on with the level of disgust I have for those who think they are our betters, but I won't. However I see little difference between the Government backroom and the corporate boardroom when it comes to wrecking things in the name of improvement and efficiency. Lysenkoism didn't die with the Soviet Union.