re: Starting a buisness (farming) and curious where to start

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How much money can you make from selling what you grow?

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Depends on the price of the crop. We're rice, crawfish and some years soybean farming family. We've never lost money but we have many years have had all bills paid and had money to put in our retirement account. Some years are better than others BUT you don't spend that "extra" money -- you keep it to start the next years crop so that you don't have to borrow as much which equals less interest on the loan.

I'm super thankful that my husband is a great farmer and a great business man.

eta: we have a little more than 2000 acres of land; we own a little but the rest is either family land or land that we rent. This year he'll be planting about 1200 acres of rice and is undecided on soybeans at this point. He often gets calls from a landowner asking him to pick up their land. If it's a good situation location and water source wise he'll consider it. It can be a good life -- but it can also be a difficulty one just like any job. It has its good and bad days.