>This is the new normal and is largely all an entire generation of farmers knows.
That might be true for farmers, but what about big/institutional farmland owners? If the practice is killing future productivity, surely they'd be incentivized to protect their investment? If you're a landlord you wouldn't be cool with renting your units to some crackheads for "the biggest short-term payday".
Corporations have fiscal obligations to their shareholders, in quarterly cycles. "Renting to some crackheads" (a great analogy!) is always on the table if one literally believes that they have no long term obligations. Not saying ALL are so short sited, but there are serious systematic problems in agriculture and corporations are certainly not leading the way on any solution.
