[erichurkman]

Rent vs. Own comes down to controlling your own harvest: renting means you may miss out, sometimes by weeks, of optimal harvest. You may have had to book a harvest weeks or months in advance. You may have to fork over cash months in advance. You may have to pay even if a field's yield is ruined due to summer floods.

If you own, you can select even segments of fields to harvest at more optimal times (a down grade, or wetter, portion of a field may harvest differently than an uphill, drier portion).

It sucks either way.