How do I deal with feeling powerless to change a broken system?

You can nurse almost any crop to yield. Decades of advising growers made you deeply useful, and now you sit close enough to see how the whole system is bent, yet feel too small to straighten it. That powerlessness is not imagined. It is what wisdom feels like when it outgrows its reach. Not everything within your sight is within your power, and that distinction is the beginning of peace, not defeat. You cannot remake the system by force of wishing. But you are not powerless over your own patch of it: the grower you advise well today, the honest word you say instead of the convenient one. Choose the one place your influence is real and pour yourself there. Do that piece with full care and let the size of the rest stop being your burden. Change often spreads from small, well-tended corners rather than grand plans. Tend yours, and let that be a worthy answer to a system you cannot fix alone.