No? [Excuse you, Aidan, but it's perfectly reasonable to talk about weather manipulation.] It's far more efficient than waiting for the weather to do as you would like it to, I imagine.
[If Aidan is somehow implying that farming is easy and he isn't terribly smart, then Chekov has missed his implications entirely.] It seems difficult to me, if not to you. You take seeds, put them in dirt, and make them grow into food! Do you see how that is impressive?