My dad pretty much went from "doing well" to "dropping it and getting different job while selling land to development" within the span of my childhood and teenage years.
Small farming was viable few decades ago, now you'd have to make some speciality fancy food there to be profitable, not anything mass market.
Small vinery? Sure you might have some chance. Potatoes and wheat ? Good fucking luck.
> It's one of the reasons I LOL hard whenever I hear tech people saying they will "retire and become farmers", these people have no idea what it is like to work on a farm for real.
Clarkson's farm is essentially a documentary about that lmao. Rich man invests a lot and with ton of help earns less than a thousand a year from quite a lot of land.
Small farming was viable few decades ago, now you'd have to make some speciality fancy food there to be profitable, not anything mass market.
Small vinery? Sure you might have some chance. Potatoes and wheat ? Good fucking luck.
> It's one of the reasons I LOL hard whenever I hear tech people saying they will "retire and become farmers", these people have no idea what it is like to work on a farm for real.
Clarkson's farm is essentially a documentary about that lmao. Rich man invests a lot and with ton of help earns less than a thousand a year from quite a lot of land.