the farmers you hear about -- in the news, in economic/politics, if they're farmers and not pickers or farmhands, are millionaires.
If not in liquid, in assets. That's the only way to really make reasonably positive money farming, enough to keep one going, rn. Unless you want to subsistence farm, which means giving up a lot of your luxuries and even then probably having issues.
I wish less people saw it as an out, if only because I'd prefer less farm animals have a shit time of it.
at least do the math. for their sake.
go if you must, but do it with open eyes.
I grew up on a farm in rural Minnesota. About 130 acres, not huge, but still enough.
What annoys me most about the cottagecore stuff I see is how it just completely glosses over how hard it is and how expensive it is.
my grandparents were dairy farmers in Germany, and even though we don't live there part of the imagined Inheritance was the farm, and my dad used to put it like "this could be your livelihood if things don't work out in the states". And no. Absolutely not. None of us know anything about keeping animals, or what it takes to earn a living by them. And the cows could not POSSIBLY bring in enough money, it was a very small farm. Twenty milk cows, a handful of pigs. All of the fields we'd had 100 year leases on have been sold to the Big Farmers in the area. All we have is a few little plots and the farmhouse and barn/other outbuildings.
If there had ever been a chance to make a go of it it was decades ago, and basically it would have been to send me as a teen, alone, to Germany to essentially apprentice under opa and take over while it was still a WORKING farm. And I was a shithead as a teen, it wouldn't have worked out. So the ship has sailed.
