Problem: How does this topic (The Decline of Family Farms in the USA) concern/and or include various scales? (Some may be directly stated, others may have to be inferred). Options: global (smallest scale), regional, national, local (largest scale). Pick 2 scales and explain why you chose each one
Helpful articles:
1. How America's food giants swallowed the family farms By Chris McGreal
2. THE CHANGING SCALE OF AMERICAN AGRICULTURE By John Fraser Hart