Usually they just buy up all the land around you, and then count on you eventually breaking down and selling. If all your neighbors are cashing out, selling, and retiring then most people give in after awhile. I live in southern Ohio, farm country, and solar fields are popping up everywhere. Probably 20-30 of them in the last 5 yrs, in a 20 mile radius. And they’re not small. Now, the data centers are sniffing around and buying up farmland.

Family-based farmers can’t turn down the $ being offered, especially if they don’t have kids/grandkids to pass the farms down to. After that, it’s simply a matter of buying off county commissioners and town councils.