Which option best characterizes the following passage in regard to recent developments in agriculture?

“Combined investments helped discover and develop farming equipment, which resulted in higher yields and the need for fewer farming personnel.”


Farms provide fewer jobs compared to agricultural research and development.
Farms provide fewer jobs compared to agricultural research and development.

Farming equipment use eventually turns farms into mass-producing factories.
Farming equipment use eventually turns farms into mass-producing factories.

Farming equipment is more expensive now than it was fifty years ago.
Farming equipment is more expensive now than it was fifty years ago.

Farms now produce more crops, creating a need for more farm workers.