So if they're scraping by maybe due to lean years such as during the recent drought, you would be comfortable with the family business being shut down? Farming is typically a low-margin business.

Over taxation is one of the primary stated reasons some rural Californians are proposing to split the state.[1] So perhaps a solution is to allow farmers to govern themselves and tax land owners appropriately, and big city dwellers to govern themselves, taxing land owners appropriately.

(Note that I don't live in CA so I am neither for nor against. Simply stating facts.)

[1] https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/720c6a07-3594-44b7-8098-94f...