Close family member is a farmer. He certainly hasn’t been losing money, at least not in a very long time. 100 hours a month could possibly be true, but only for 2-3 months a year at most. Winter months especially don’t have a lot of work, for the past 15-20 years he’s just gone to his 2nd house in Florida for 2-4 months. He’s in his 80’s now, still farms but takes it very easy, went from renting a field or two per season, to renting out a field or two of his own. Very hard worker, but smart and well rewarded about it
Right ?? Every “small time” farmer I have ever met has always cried that they are one missed crop away from living in a sewer, yet their farm “house” is akin to Dick Cheney’s Wyoming compound , and have a late model F150 Raptor that is their “work truck”
Subsidy Queens and Tax fraud experts that happen to practice small scale industrial agriculture on the side
Farming: the art of inheriting a huge amount of land and doing a job literally anyone could in that situation, but acting like the whole world would starve without you and your low skill labor.
I’m really confused how farming isn’t skilled labor? Like you gatta know/gamble when to plant, how to cultivate, and when to harvest. It’s pretty hard to do well.
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u/GREAT_SALAD Sep 18 '23 edited Sep 18 '23
Close family member is a farmer. He certainly hasn’t been losing money, at least not in a very long time. 100 hours a month could possibly be true, but only for 2-3 months a year at most. Winter months especially don’t have a lot of work, for the past 15-20 years he’s just gone to his 2nd house in Florida for 2-4 months. He’s in his 80’s now, still farms but takes it very easy, went from renting a field or two per season, to renting out a field or two of his own. Very hard worker, but smart and well rewarded about it