It is possible to start from scratch. My first "farm" was a widowed neighbor who needed help with her property. She had horses and hay fields but no equipment. I got a small tractor and rake and rented a baler and haybine and cut 10 acres of hay, sold most of it to her and the rest in field to another farmer I knew. That was 3 years ago I think. Now I have 4 tractors (two small ones and two mediumish ones), all my own small bale equipment and this year paying FIL to round bale 40 acres for me. Next year some of that is going into crop. I make about $1k a year in custom work for a food plot as well (easy with the deer doing the harvest!) It's not good for income just yet, but it's a growing operation from scratch. As I said above, my FIL has been huge with the advice, and I get lots of knowledge from the forums and youtube. I work retail sales for 60+ hours a week and spend time with family and squeeze the farm in when I can. It's not an easy balance, and sometimes not balanced at all. But if someone is willing to work for passion of eventual profits and the pleasures of working the land then it can be done so long as there are little old ladies that need some help and don't like modern ag. The land I have been finding is abandoned because they won't let folks spray. Rather than try to educate them on this or that, I go with their wishes and do the best I can. Tillage equipment is so much cheaper anyhow. You gotta work niche markets where you can. Maybe I'm not successful, after all, I lose money every year. But I haven't failed yet, so that's success in my book.
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Today's Featured Article - Listening to Your Tractor - by Curtis Von Fange. Years ago there was a TV show about a talking car. Unless you are from another planet, physically or otherwise, I don’t think our internal combustion buddies will talk and tell us their problems. But, on the other hand, there is a secret language that our mechanical companions readily do speak. It is an interesting form of communication that involves all the senses of the listener. In this series we are going to investigate and learn the basic rudimentary skills of understanding this lingo.
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