[thisisnico]

Both of my parents grew up as farmers. It's an astronomical amount of work. The costs are insane, unless you have massive scale it's impossible to compete. The farmland was sold off to large scale farming operations because they can afford to handle ups/downs, they can make extremely efficient use of the incredibly expensive equipment needed to farm.

The only way I can see someone successful in a farming endeavour is doing something super niche and hands-on that's highly profitable and doesn't require a ton of land. I'm thinking like apple orchards or vineyards. Additionally you could make your own specialist products and set up a small market to sell them. This is popular where I live.

[op00to]

Or you’re rich and you just don’t care if you lose a crop which would literally bankrupt other small farmers