Corporate farming is one of the reasons why many communities have trouble producing sufficient food. Something like 35-40% of our cropland is now being used to produce animal feed for overstuffing commercially produced livestock, and another significant percentage is used for cash crops. Not to mention how much land is used for corn ethanol which overall is likely just as bad for the environment as regular gasoline.
And even besides that, corporate farming doesn't use land more efficiently, doesn't use inputs more efficiently (fertilizer/pesticide/water/gasoline), and does a terrible job of overproducing waste. The problems of using too much land and creating too much pollution are both exacerbated by corporate farming.
The main thing that corporate farming is efficient on is labor. They've purposely pushed hundreds of thousands of smaller farmers out of business, thereby creating a problem that never existed - I'm pretty sure this is the first time in human history where there hasn't been enough farmers, whereas in all eras before this you had more than enough farmers and not enough land. It's a shortage created by the corporations - without them we'd still have plenty of people farming.
I don't think we actually need "everyone" to farm, though everyone should have a garden if possible. But I do think it would be great if some very large number of people, like over 10%, were farmers. Most poorer nations already have massive employment issues with huge percentages of the population desperate for some sort of work, and if robotics and AI really start pushing everyone out of business in richer countries, then why not? With modern technology and resources, farming wouldn't have to be a shytty occupation if corporations didn't make it shytty by driving down profits with anti-competitive practices and fukking up land use.
