[ClumsyPilot]

> You can sell at a farmer's market for 5x what the local grocery store charges and you get 100% of the margin!

Ever tried selling 50 tons of wheat at the farmer's market? Its a minor side-income at best

> "you can make a full time salary on as low as 1 acre,"

Thats total wishfull thinking. - you can only do that in specific niches, with significant capital outlay, near a city. You are not going ti make any money off an average 1-acre field in the countryside

[vangelis]

Don't compete on commodity crops to start.

[ClumsyPilot]

That's 99% of farm produce, so you are basically supporting the statement above - only the largest farms are profitable, and family farm is dead outside tiny niches.