The mass media likes to portray farmers as straw-chewing hicks. It's the farmer stereotype.
I even saw a conversation on here a few months back where someone on here not-so-nicely corrected a user that the big industrial farmers are smart but the rest of them are backwoods hicks that barely know what electricity is.
I saw a comment recently on HN about how farmers exemplified unsophisticated investors who would never be able to understand complicated financial instruments.
I pointed out that futures trading was literally invented by farmers.
I even saw a conversation on here a few months back where someone on here not-so-nicely corrected a user that the big industrial farmers are smart but the rest of them are backwoods hicks that barely know what electricity is.