I live in "farm" country. Its more like a giant factory that grows clones across 90% of the land around here. The few "family farms" left that are actually owned and run on property owned by those farming the land have net worths in 6 to 7 figures. If you are an "individual" farmer with less than 500 acres you have tough road to hoe on your own to put it mildly. Your only recourse is to sell which would give you a nice lump sum you could possibly retire with, or to lease your land to a bigger neighbor or Cargill or Pioneer or some factory farm group which would give you a semi decent income (the latter is what the majority of smaller land owners around here do) and still give you the security of ownership of some dirt.
Now I'm not as familiar with farming that requires physical labor to harvest the crop as opposed to million dollar machines but I would bet a majority of them are fairly large multi million dollar enterprises. I could be wrong of course.
Regardless, the majority of "farming" in this country anymore is a fairly big to gigantic business. I honestly don't see many if any of the small struggling farmers around here I did in the 70's and 80's. All I see is 7k sq ft homes with 200k dollars of pickups, SUV's and nice cars in the driveways and giant mansion like 100k sq ft pole barns with 10 million dollars worth of farm equipment inside.
Those little old farm houses out here that are left are rentals.
I'd like to see an income breakdown of which "farmers" voted for who is all I'm saying 
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