"Farmers are stuck on a treadmill ... This treadmill is the reason for enormous increases in both farm size and productivity ... The treadmill is driven by specialization and drives further specialization, filling each farm with just one or two crops or huge livestock operations. The economic and social implications are huge, but the environmental implications are even bigger. Large-scale landscapes get stripped of variation and biodiversity. These lands don’t produce the ecosystem services we need..." (Quoted from article)