Madden: Industrialists address problems by simplifying them, but in farming that strategy usually leads to oversimplification  For example, industrialists see water retention and drainage as different and opposite functions -- that good topsoil both drains and retains water is a fact alien to industrial logic  To facilitate water retention, they use a terrace or a dam; to facilitate drainage, they use drain tile, a ditch, or a subsoiler
More farming problems are created than solved when agriculture is the domain of the industrialist, not of the farmer
The problems of farming should be viewed in all their complexity.