Posted by DLMKA on December 30, 2014 at 08:48:08 from (192.189.128.13):
I'm in the same boat as you. I grew up in farming families and it's in my blood. I bought a smaller plot last summer with 12 acres. I don't plan on doing any row crops. Find a specialty crop or a niche that hasn't been filled in your area. Start small and build a reliable customer base. I don't think you can come out ahead raising corn and soybeans like everyone else on just 80 acres if you're selling to the co-op or elevator.
80 is too much for all specialty crops without a developed market for it. I would probably fence it into paddocks for managed, intensive grazing and graze multiple species on part and hay on the rest.
I guess it all depends on what you are interested in. Don't listen to they guys on here saying you can't make money on 80 acres, you just have to find something no one else is doing and develop a market and watch emerging trends from the masses.
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