A farm is a money pit that will rival any boat on the water.
And you don’t have to be a drooling idiot to lose money. Here in Virginia, I see many a successful business person retire, sink money into a farm and then have to go back to work to make more money to keep the farm running.
Men who went the distance with farms usually had a wife who had a government job, and it really helped if he had a cushy gig, too.
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People think that job is easy, until they do it. Media portrays them as idiots but farmers have to be astute business people or they won’t be farming long. If a task has to be done, it has to be done. You can’t wait for the illegals, you have to get your city ass out the sack and deal with it. whether it be livestock or in the fields, or plumbing or vehicle related, you gotta get it done or you can’t keep the money flowing and you can’t make the payments and you can’t hire more help.