University Project needing actual farmers input

Hello y’all! We are a team of students from Columbia University competing at a NASA competition called Blue Skies. Our project this year is based on agricultural issues for farmers in America, and of course we have ideas on issues to solve, but we wanted to actually tackle problems that farmers actually claim to have. So if you have a particular situation or you know of a problem that we can tackle please respond to this post or feel free to DM us! We want to actually be of service to y’all, so it would really help if you could point us in the right direction!

Welcome!
That's a big question, and I imagine you could ask 10 farmers and get 12 answers.
10 years ago Michael Pollan spoke at a permaculture conference and brought up some really good points which are still really valid today, this might give you some food for thought.
https://permies.com/t/34095/Michael-Pollan-PV-State-Food