Posted by hayray on November 15, 2011 at 18:35:22 from (184.244.210.85):
In Reply to: OT. FUTURE OF FARMING posted by NE.IL on November 15, 2011 at 02:56:57:
I started my own farming business right out of college but in a area on the edge of suburbia with low quality land so rent is cheap and competition low. I also got into the farming buiness and no sights on the land ownership business which helps and have a farm that I could start to work out of with low rent and had other jobs to allow me to make money to get started. But if you are in a good area with large farmers you are not gonna compete with goverment subsidized corn growers. The corn programs of the 90s and stupid CRP programs almost killed me back then because I could not get any land. Stupid investors who where not farmers at all where getting $70 per acre to let land sit and 092 corn growers were getting paid market value for expected corn yields on land that sat idle -- stupid and unfair.
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