Ngl this was my original thought years ago until the realization of how fucked the topsoil is and how yield returns are only possible by the interconnection of rural and urban manufacturing/industrial zones giving endless fertilizer/materials to make up for this continuing deficiency. Now farmers could indeed go to a regenerative model but that would in essence require more manpower and man hours to accomplish which is something that rural America would never want to admit (it already does not want to admit how vital migrant farm workers are to actual production and how fucked they would be without them getting funneled to them via the state worker visa programs). A big indicator of this failing though is how many farmers are similar to kulaks/petit boug in that they themselves work their land marginally compared to current outputs from industrialized resource usage. So yeah you could go independent and scale down to a smaller farm but that isn't what rural America says when they continuously "threaten" independence, it's similar to how supporters of Brexit did not understand how well negotiated their spot is within the global industrial exchange system (any aatempt to break from it would remove those ignored benefits).