My greatest exposure to industrial farming was when I lived in Yuma. Everything flood irrigated and very controlled. They hated it when it rained as it would screw up the watering cycles.
Constant turn on the fields...very seldom let go fallow. I had an older lemon grove behind the house when I bought it. By the time I left it had been turned to crops...tomatillo, broccolli, that crazy African feed grass (??) etc, etc. Non-stop turn.
Growing up was all small New England family farms except for the turf/potato operation I worked as a teenager. Hand-picking sweet corn, cutting and baling hay, mowing turf fields watching irrigation pumps overnight and general whatever around the places I worked.
Nothing to the scale you guys are working out there Chris
