> I think the issue is that the land can be worth over $13M, but the income from farming it is low, so the people living on the land are poor.

Except that "issue" is not real. It's just a story someone is telling to make you feel things.

When it comes to family farms getting inherited, 99.984% of them will not owe anything at all in Federal Estate Tax [0].

[0] https://www.ers.usda.gov/amber-waves/2021/april/less-than-1-...