A few decades ago, a former US Secretary of Agriculture told farmers they should get big or get out. A glance through agricultural census data since then would appear to show that this is exactly what farmers have done – gotten bigger, and many have had to get out. But most of those who got out didn’t necessarily do so because they wanted to. They were most often forced out by the impacts of consolidation, mergers, and simplification of farming systems following the industrial model. This process is clearly explained in the IPESFood report titled “Too big to feed” that explores the impacts of getting big on food systems (IPES-Food 2017). But the reality for smaller farms and rural communities, especially in the farm country of the US, is even more forcibly outlined in a recent call from the Land Stewardship Project that states that the 2023 Farm Bill that will be enacted by the US Congress and set agricultural and food policy for the following five years, must favor small farm systems over corporate agriculture (Abbott 2022) .