For the majority of farmers, it’s “damn near difficult” to earn a living on the land, according to Matt Graham. His household has actually owned a 700-acre farm in Eagleville, Missouri, given that 1886, however today he explains their little livestock and crop operation as a “full-time pastime.”
Graham states earning a living from farming is excessively pricey, so he has a different profession in the energy sector. To raise livestock full-time, he states you ‘d require a couple of hundred cows, about 4 acres of grazing land per cow, and a couple of tractors– all of which lands at around $15 million in start-up expenses. “There’s simply no chance it pencils,” he states. “And there’s a great deal of threat in it. It’s weather condition- and market-dependent, and you can’t manage either.”
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