Where? Not too many can make a living on that scale 'here'. There are no doubt places where it works, and there are no doubt people who enjoy dealing with people on a daily basis and can handle that... so they make it work, but a lot either can't or don't have the option. You'll also find that the 'system' is not set up for that kind of independant thought or operation and in many cases the regulations are specifically designed to prevent small scale operations.
If you were to look at dairy as an example today, it is nearly impossible to get a licence to process milk for sale (here), you can't sell it unprocessed (~health regs~), you can't get it picked up unless you've got a fairly large volume and you're near a route... then you need to be prepared to take a 53' tridem trailer in your yard, in any weather condition, 365 days a year. On top of that you apply the basics of HAACP protocol to your production on top of meeting all other quality regulations, environmental regulations and nutrient management plans And you know what? If you don't like that... you don't want to comply with that... well, there's the DOOR. Goodbye. See ya... and if you think you're going to operate outside those regs and not comply, you'll see them in court.
The pittance of subsidy that most of us get are in respect of complying with some regulation or another, or some other fool thing for YOUR benefit. That would seem to be the difference between our food system and that of say... China where some opertunistic fella thought he could boost the protein in baby formula with melamine. Ya gets what ya pays fer. How many died in that one again?
Also, the notion of someone with a 200 K GROSS income being a large AgriBusiness is absolutely laughable. @200K would be a pretty small farm today. Probably with about 2 other off farm jobs to put food on the table. Some of the large operations I can think of around here probably do 200K gross in about 2 weeks. They're strong, profitable operations... but they work hard for that, and there's not much wasted on toys either.
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