I wonder how little farming you’d have to do if this did count. Does letting a few sheep walk around a solar farm count? Growing a few strawberry plants? If the economics from elsewhere in thread are accurate, the farming feels like it would add 0 value other than the regulatory dodge, and would therefore be minimized.

> Don't know about the US, but where I live farmland is restrictively zoned to preserve its agricultural use

So central land use planning? Rural America won't be that Commumist -- not even by law, just look at the way it votes.

Freedom means a farmer can do whatever they want with their land