Modern Farming is designed to bankrupt farmers, the insanity started with modern fertilizers and pesticides.
Then came those monster machines farm equipment that cost hundreds of thousands of $ .
The Whole Rigged Game is Input Costs,
Fertilizers
Pesticides
Buying Seeds every year (Modern insanity)
Farm Equipment (Massive) & Maintenance
(Taking on Debt from Bank Loans to afford the above Input Costs, is what finishes the farmers off.)
The place where they confuse everyone, is when they talk about you always have to buy fertilizer to feed the plants,
that is not the way it used to be done, We used to feed the Soil and it took care of the plants.
Yes all the inputs, and like you say, the insanity of them needing to be repeated every season, is certainly a burden. We actually do take care of our soil by getting free wood chips from a company that trims power lines. They are more than happy to have a place to dump them for free. True, we have to pick out a lot of garbage from careless linesmen but, after that we till it into the soil, adding new bio organisms (or will in future years as it breaks down). We plow and disc the fields yearly. Modern no-till seed drills make even this, supposedly, unneeded. But yes, then we go to the dark side and spray chemicals after the round-up ready crop has been sowed and emerges. We are not happy about having to do so. For the reasons stated in a previous post, we are in the position we have to, to justify the, again, crazy recurring costs of property taxes. But I won't stray off topic with that.
As someone mentioned converting directly from GMO to non GMO ,
it takes ~4 or 5 years to convert a conventional style farmland into the older natural style farmland with a decent yield.
The reason being you have to build up the soil and that takes years, all conventional style farmland soil is depleted of needed organisms, that support plant growth.
Hopefully our methods of introducing organisms and not following popular no-till planting methods will shorten this for us some when we are ready to try to convert fields back to more traditional farming. And yes I do mean 'back'. As a child we even planted fields by hand, it would take many solid days and all our friends we could coerce to help. Can't be much more traditional than that. Unless we caught fish prior and placed the seeds in the mouth of the fish, then planted the whole fish like native Americans did. Though I don't know where we would catch that many fish.
Thank you for the links. I will check my local library.
FYI:
Here is how far modern farmers have gotten away from the old ways.
I was talking to a farmer that grows sweet potatoes as he buys truck loads of seed potatoes every year and plants 1 Whole Potato per hill.
(Now if you are old School , you know the guy is wasting money.) Reason 1 : A sweet potato plant will grow from each eye on a potato , we use to cut potatoes where it had 2 or 3 eyes and plant it , increasing his amount of plants by 2 or 3 times , which would decrease the amount he had to buy, (Buying the potatoes was his 2nd mistake.)
Reason 2 : He could keep a portion of the potatoes he grows and completely avoid the input costs of having to buy any next year.
(This Trick works only for sweet potatos, cut the Vine and plant the Vine's end , and it will grow a bunch of sweet potatoes.)This Modern farmer , I spoke with knew none of these things.
I cut potatoes every spring for this purpose. Thank God I am not a modern farmer. Just a farmer in modern times.
FYI2:
Sweet Potatoes are member of the morning glory family.
Regular Potatoes are a member of the nightshade family.
I did not know. Learn something new every day. There really is an endless amount to learn about farming and it does fascinate me. I do know many farmers that own enough land that they can solely farm for a living. Some of them live a very comfortable life. I even know one that grows selected specific 'weeds' and makes wreaths as a business selling them directly to floral shops (isent that mislabeling lol). So yes, I know it can be done. Getting to that point takes generations often times I think. Maybe my kids, should I ever have any, will figure it out. Whatever crop they might sell, I hope they only accept EverGreenCoin.
I will be placing the order this afternoon. 
The content is only from within Gabi's car as he drives about, promoting EverGreenCoin whilst he runs his errands. I doubt UMG owns Gabi's car. 
Thanks for the answers. If you know how can I sync my wallet too it would be great.
