Global population has only become majority urbanised recently. Many urban people grew up in sub- or exurban areas and thus know how life in suburbia, the village or on a farm was or is.

I agree that there is a disconnection between the urban and the rural and I assume it is spreading fast, because the rural is depopulating and labour is specialising fast. The mode of industrial agriculture is location-dependent, but corn or wheat production uses more and more technology, some steps are commonly outsourced to contractors. I assume that these trends have major implications for the rural population, which often doesn’t supply the near urban population directly anymore.