A businessman that exploits an owned resource for personal gain has every incentive to preserve and manage that resource wisely, to maintain it, to service it, to not mine it mercilessly to the point of exhaustion. If you have a goose laying golden eggs, you feed it the best food, take it to the vet frequently, and otherwise keep it as happy, fat and healthy as you can.

A farmer who owns his land will practice crop rotation,
leave one field fallow every year, or graze livestock on it to build up nitrates, minimize the use of chemicals and heavy equipment, and employ techniques like contour plowing and windbreaks. Farmers who plan to pass their land on to their kids have always done this, or welcomed instruction in how to do it from the local Farm Agent.

OTOH, if you are an absentee landowner, you want to maximize yields in the short term and are ready to sell the land as soon as productivity begins to decline. You will employ any means available to do so and hire and reward managers who know how to do that. When the land is exhausted or eroded away, you move on to another farm, or another business altogether.