I would agree with the two previous comments.
I also wanted to comment on your previous question, when you asked where that money is going. The grocers are placing more demands on the packers: they have to be “cold chain” approved. You have to have your apples shipped at whatever the magic number is--5°C, let's say--and then they put them in room temperature storage in the stores.
They're passing down a lot more regulations, but they're not paying anything more. They want the paperwork to prove you've complied, like food safety audits. We have to have third party audits and we have to pay for them, but we're not getting anything more for that. So I'd say that's challenging.
Yes, in terms of the regulation on the farm with chemicals, things are more specific. We used to have broad spectrum pesticides and now they're more targeted. Farmers are required to be experts in their areas--on entomology, on soil science, on amendments, on all that stuff--but you actually can't study that anywhere.
I'm fortunate that my father has been farming, and farmed with his father, and our orchard manager has been farming for 30 years as well. His wife is a crop consultant, so she's really up on all that stuff. I'm fortunate to learn from them, but other people who want to enter have no place to learn that knowledge.