That's what my son keeps saying. You'd have to buy an awful lot of it to make it pay if crop prices drop and you're carrying roughly 60% debt on it.
Even owned free and clear, for smaller landowners, you have to plan carefully to make it pay unless you farm the whole thing yourself. Even then there's still risk.
There isn't much prime farmland available to buy right now.
Crops aren’t the way to go. Too expensive unless you are born into a family farm.
Four legged crops are the way to go.
Cattle ranchers seeing record auction prices
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