Dave, how difficult could it be to look it up?

Endso, I am sorry to hear you family's sad story. The grim reality of the last and this century is that sad stories like that are repeated over and over throughout the world. It's not just farms, the small businesses everywhere find it increasingly difficult to compete against mega corporations. Farms, corner shops, furniture manufacturers... even mobile phone OS producers, everyone either gets swallowed by a megacorp or goes to the dogs. The only way to escape the trend is to find a niche where the megacorp is not interested (yet). Here in the UK it means (some) services - and thus you end up with hundreds of freelance handymen, electricians and plumbers on every street, clogging up all available parking space with their white vans. Until some megacorp figures out how to tap on that source of income as well and kicks them all out.