American farms can be truely vast, so any statement on averages is swayed by this. The article says they are planting 4,500 acres this year. When you look up average US farm sizes it is hard to know what to compare it to as monocropping or single breed farming seem to be the standard. However you do it, the farm planting is a lot smaller than 4500 acres.

They might not be farming at a scale big ag run at, but it’s no small operation.

The below link says “The midpoint acreage for U.S. cropland nearly doubled between 1982 and 2007, from 589 acres to 1,105.”

https://www.ers.usda.gov/webdocs/publications/45108/39359_er...