I am a step ahead of you only in the sense that I grew up in Iowa and farmed corn and soybeans as a kid. I operated big equipment, 100hp+,on behalf of the real farmers. Pretty much just did as instructed without knowing exactly why.
Fast forward 30 years and I have steadily increased the size of my garden to about 2 acres.
This is the system I went with: 1953 Farmall super C with the fast hitch. I have accumulated a fast hitch: moldboard plow, disc, rear cultivator. I have the mounted cultivators,planters and fertilizer side dressers for it. I built a 10' drag using 2 sections out of a 4 section trailer drag. I have about $4000 cash investment and hundreds of hours messing with it and learning about machinery that was made before I was born.
My GrandFather raised 10 kids on 80 acres. In the beginning with horses and then a 8N Ford. He never did get anything bigger. Grew mostly corn and fed that to the hogs and chickens. My Grandmother traded eggs for butter, bread, coffee, salt etc. All other groceries came off the farm.
You can do alot of farming with an inexpensive 20-30 horse tractor.
They grow Peanuts up in that area. You might look into that.
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