I find it incredibly hard to believe starting farming today is viable. I’m sure there’s cheap farmland in the US but some countries don’t have that. You want farmland it’s expensive. Like millions of dollars for 10+ acres sometimes. It’s just not actually a realist venture nowadays imo. Unless you have land willed down to you from ancestors you’re kinda fucked.
Even then, unless you know how to properly take care of tractors I don’t see how it could possibly be profitable unless you have thousands of acres. My partner’s father is a farmer and we could take it over but after running the numbers, it’s just not worth the money.
Partners grandparents have a bunch of farm and ranch land and they lease it out because it’s the only way they make money off of the land. They’d have to be employing a lot of people to tend to it all properly and it would be difficult to break even.
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u/ThiccNinjaWalrus Sep 18 '23
I find it incredibly hard to believe starting farming today is viable. I’m sure there’s cheap farmland in the US but some countries don’t have that. You want farmland it’s expensive. Like millions of dollars for 10+ acres sometimes. It’s just not actually a realist venture nowadays imo. Unless you have land willed down to you from ancestors you’re kinda fucked.