*Leaves 37 million dollar contract to become farmer*

[CanadianChiefs]

His agent must have been pissed

http://fox4kc.com/2014/11/17/pro-foo...come-a-farmer/

[Buehler445]

Originally Posted by -King-

Brown purchased 1,000 acres of farm land and has started growing crops like sweet potatoes and cucumbers.

Good. If he owns it outright, he should make it.

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

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.

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?

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.

[Mr. Laz]

Originally Posted by Easy 6

Thats flippin awesome, dude is following his heart and clearly feels a calling to do this.

Much respect.

[Skyy God]

Brown made $20M guaranteed from the Rams, sucked thereafter, was cut in 2012, and couldn't catch on with another team.

In no way, shape, or form did he give up $37M to farm.

[Kaepernick]

Originally Posted by Fruit Ninja

Playing 5more years in the NFL as a center is easy? I would bet its one of the most taxing positions in the NFL to play outside of RBs. Maybe he didn't want to take the pounding anymore.

You completely missed my point. He passed on the chance to offer millions of dollars to the poor with a misguided view of providing a little food for them now. He could have done more for the poor by earning as much as he could in the NFL and then later going into farming, than giving up that salary.

That was my point.