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Originally Posted by -King-
Brown purchased 1,000 acres of farm land and has started growing crops like sweet potatoes and cucumbers.
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Good. If he owns it outright, he should make it.
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Originally Posted by Fruit Ninja
and if something bad happened in them 5 years and he couldnt do it? If you feel the time to make a change is now in whatever your doing. Then do it
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Eh, it's not like there isn't alternatives. There are some old brokedown mother****ers out there that can still farm. Equipment improvements have changed things.
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Originally Posted by cosmo20002
"Brown learned the tricks of the trade from none other than watching videos on YouTube, since he had never actually farmed a day in his life."
Geez, is farming that easy?
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Yeah. Come out. I'll sell you a quarter to get started.
Really, it depends on what you are doing and what you are responsible for.
If he owns 1000 acres of decent ground in a high rainfall area outright, that is a huge amount of equity he has to burn through before he's in trouble. And if you don't have rent or land payments, you can have bottom 1/3 production and still cover your costs as long as you aren't upgrading equipment, buildings and such.
I really don't know anything about farming vegetables outside of what I've done in a garden, but it looks to me like he is operating a huge garden. That is significantly different than trying to push production on grain production, where errors nutrient management, pesticide efficacy, and disease can demolish a crop.
I'm sure there are some similar concerns in NC, but if he's rotating enough and has hired a crop scout, he could probably get by.