Is that a sob story for the poor old landholders? The cattle...

Is that a sob story for the poor old landholders? The cattle ranchers and race horse breeders under threat from mines! The crop farmers who like to pay $5 an hour for coolie labour.The poor old landed gentry, the landed estates and the old aristocracy.
The miners, for all their ills, do offer the prospect of highly paid skilled work for those of us who don't own vast acreages of fertile land.