In Wisconsin you can get three acres for about $10,500. And it’s tillable, rich, dark soil - not that sandy, peanut-growing sh#t you have to put up with, LOL!
(Just razzin’ ya...) ;)
I live in SW Wisconsin, but once you get to the middle of our state, where the Glaciers ground everything to a PULP, you have great, sandy soil for growing taters and carrots and onions. Wisconsin alternates with Idaho for First Place in potato production each year!
My soil down in the SW (we’re two counties away from The Mighty Mississippi) is more clay, and we have to amend it with as much cow manure as we can. I still don’t have good luck with root crops, and since they’re so cheap to buy here, that’s what I do. I DO grow potatoes for the fun of it and we usually get plenty for just the two of us.
HA! We are moving to Wisconsin. N GA property is very expensive. Everybody and their brother wants to move there. The red clay is great for growing crops. It’s a pain to try to till up though. That’s why a lot of people do raised beds including me. I get an incredible yield of potatoes out of 5 gallon buckets.