My thought process, right or wrong, is that if the small family farms would specialize in raising and growing organic products to supply the rapidly growing demand for such products, they would be able to compete with big agribusiness because A. they would be a smaller, more specialized niche, and B. they could charge higher prices, and the people in their target demographic would pay those higher prices.

In the economics of scale, this makes sense.

The small family farm will never be able to compete with large agribusiness in the areas in which these multi-national corporations operate. However, they can create a niche for themselves that is separate from that of the large agribusinesses if they choose to.

Carol