Reality:  wages in ag rise slowly.  But ground value has grown exponentially.  The asking price today,  for Willamette Valley irrigated bottom and first bench ground is $20,000 per acre.  No end to wealthy people putting money into funds to buy that land,  which is then managed by the contracted management outfit,  which has a market through their California operations.  It is not family farming,  but there are only so many public companies you buy equity in,  so these funds are growing and say they are prospering.  Time will tell.  The tenure of ownership tends to be about five years.  

The cost of food?  Cheaper to import it.  The issue with  govt supported US farm industry is food security (mean world.)  It is not the cheapest alternative.  When you eat an almond,  a canned tomato,  it will have the after taste of all the dead baby salmon in the dewatered Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers and watersheds.  A cotton shirt?  Subsidized water,  dead salmon,   price floor govt provided.