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.
Yeah, can confirm. I grew up on a subsistence farm. My parents had to get actual jobs so that we could still have, you know, electricity and water and stuff, because it was literally impossible to compete with agribusiness prices. Agriculture margins have been shit in Capitalist systems literally always, it is a totally unstable output that we all just so happen to gravely need in order for life and society to continue.
With them having jobs the lion's share of the labor then fell to me, a child. As you can imagine, this was grueling work that took up precious time I could have been playing or having friends during and has fucked me up psychologically and physically to this very day. If you "start a family" on a farm you might as well tell your children you don't love them and be done with it, because they will hate your guts for cutting them off from society just so you can live out your pinterest cottagecore fantasy.