Thanks,
Yeh, farming is definitely not a good way to get rich. It’s all about pushing yields, balancing the weather, and gambling on prices. Add in the BS of rising land prices and greedy SOBs looking for ways to use your land away from you. Here, it just takes a salesman with a plan to get the county to trigger ED (eminent domain). Everyone wants a fuckin’ Starbucks. My family has owned the deed to most of what I farm for several generations now, but owning a deed doesn’t mean you don’t have to keep paying for it. Add in machine costs, with some crops you have labor, and then seed, fertilizer, etc…. work your ass off for a measly 20 grand for a year’s work.
Everyone I know in my cooperative has another job to live on.
I could go on and on. But, then when your out there at 5AM and your pulling irrigation lines down the tram and you see an eagle or a deer walk up…. The sun rising, warm cup of coffee…. the smell of diesel and wet soil… working for pennies doesn't seem so bad.
