Farms also shape rural communities, literally and figuratively.
>Ultimately people aren’t siding with family farms for economics or fairness reasons
What would you call Community supported Agriculture? (https://www.kneehighfarm.com/what-is-csa)the farm to table movement? Farmers markets?
Meaning it's a perishable good, it's a different market. It's good to have a lot of small farms to not have monopolies and as a stopgap to massive crop failures/blight or just bad management.
Like corn: the existence of extra corn (currently making ethanol) to turn into food in case of emergency/war, so it's subsidized.
Meaning no one has a personal reason to care about the plight of a silver mine
Similarly I don’t care if it is a 5 acre family farm or a 100k acre corporation that supplies the corn I eat.