Posted by JD Seller on December 09, 2018 at 09:50:55 from (208.126.198.213):
In Reply to: Spin Farming posted by larry@stinescorner on December 09, 2018 at 05:04:58:
Larry two things come to mind. The biggest is making enough profit to make it a viable income source. Then you have to have a large population base to sell to.
Lets break that down some more. I think you worked for a university. Looks at what you where making annually the last year you worked. Then look at the benefit cost you received on top of that. A major one is your retirement. That has a HUGE value that no one self employed gets. Truthfully few in the entire private sector get a very good retirement these days. Our generation is getting retirement benefits that none before or after will ever get. So how much produce would you need to sell/grow to be just profitable??? Then how much to even make a percentage of your needed income???
Now the marketing. People with your outlook are the product of growing up in a rural life style. This is usually far away from large population centers. So that makes the real market for the fresh grown produce limited in most cases. Then add in the seasonal growing patterns and you have a tough business model to make work. People want produce year round not just a month in the summer.
I am not saying that growing produce will not make money. I am saying that the percentage of people that can do it successfully are in the very very small minority of people that try it.
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