>>212836279Arround 28% of Big Ag. workers are undocumented, arround 30% for mid sized farming business, at any rate the labour demand is hardly more than 1 to 4 million seasonal workers.
A thing a 300M country can easily provide.
If these small scale, local farms which often sell overprized produce were paying higher wages there would be a larger consumer market for their products which are expensive.
Secondly, part of why they cant break even is because the market is highly competitive.
Which is incidentially because the market is open.
If you close trade *namely tariffing importers* the competition would lower, and, by consequence, making their own production more viable, if your concern is that of small farmowners you can just subsidize them with the tariff revenue and/or derregulating.
If property prices fall as result of a lower agrocultural activity and a lower housing demand anyway, you would see a bubble crash among speculators and a lot of trusties buying farmland, likely leading to the rise of new producers of the sorts.
Turns out that when you let people actually own things many will actually just do things
Which is quite hard when property is trapped in a ever growing bubble constantly inflated by ever increasing migration, regulation and taxation punishing small property owners and favouring large industrial scale corporate landowners and making it only profitable to sell and a constant redistribuion of these assets into essential consumption markets via welfare, (which levels buying power down, which reduces investment capacity)