Do farmers get paid well, is it a good career choice?

Do farmers get paid well, is it a good career choice?

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do you have farmland?
no?
then no

Formerly yes

Farmers are businessmen and are millionaires. They have employees and millions of dollars in capital. Farming employees are not paid much but lucky for them the cost of living in the countryside is very low.

Not right now. You have to be highly mechanized to compete to sell grain at a low price, and this is destroying the land. Ultimately we're headed for a crisis when most of the land is so toxic and nutrient deprived we can't grow anything anymore, and much of the population will starve. However, you can (and definitely should) work towards buying land to grow your own food sustainably and run a smallholding. You may need a second job alongside your garden, but the food will improve your health and help you to survive when large scale farmers and urban bugmen get their comeuppance.

>anything with animals
No
>plants
Idk

Toxic land how?

Yes, if you inherent the land and equipment, which is usually the case. Farming land can be worth millions.

I grew up in O’Neill NE, lived on my parents’ farm til I was 20, the moved to Iowa to go to Drake. My dad is a multimillionaire. Many independent farmers are.

1.no
2.no

The pH of the soil goes bad. It's supposed to be 7 or 8 max.

sneed

Monsanto corrupts the soil.

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absolutely not. they do not get paid well at all until you're able to start your business and hire foreigners. If you're thinking about becoming a farmer for profit then forget about it; the investment required is far too high and the profit is far too low. You need AT LEAST 50 grand in machinery and 100 acres.

that's just superstition

Pesticide/fungicide use. Farmers spray at least a couple times a year, and the chemicals contain heavy metals which remain permanently in the soil and lower it's pH. The soil is basically turning acidic and there's no easy way to fix it. Not to mention that it's also disastrously reduced insect and beneficial fungi populations.

dont do it for the money, do it because you love the soil that makes you live.

That's because he inherited it you stupid fuck. Then he was luckily enough to have found enough cash to handle it himself or hire farmhands. There is literally no other way.

If you're willing to bust your ass for 12 hours a day, 6 days a week, then yea. Have fun never playing videogames or getting shitfaced with your friends on the weekends.

Here we have a saying:
"The Earth is low". It means it is an HARD and DEMANDING job. However, it can be very fulfilling. Another saying goes: "Farmer, thick shoes and keen mind". Self explanatory.

the soil is being killed by industrial agricultural practises.

Yes, if you have land. And Its hard work.

Depending on if you are doing crops of livestock, which crops, which type of animal, organic or regular.
You need a BUNCH of money to start a farm.
You can work as a laborer. Harvest season can earn you pretty massive overtime hours. It is not uncommon for the young tractor drivers to get at like 100 hours a week or more when the weather is right and the crops are ripe.
But overall the pay is not the best at all. Also very seasonal. Nothing to do during winter unless it has to do with livestock.

Plenty of capital in the form of land, machinery and livestock; unfortunately in 99% of the cases, all that shit is owned by the bank. As an example, when milk prices were in the tank last year, a huge farm in Michigan (milking 6000 cows three times a day on two big rotary parlors) estimated that they were losing about 15,000 dollars a day just by operating. When you're in that situation, the bank carries you, but they don't do it out of the kindness of their hearts.
It can be a good career choice, but you'll never be truly rich. You have to do it for love rather than money.

It depends on your business model. If you supply quality product to one or more lucrative restaurants while keeping your business lean, you can rake in profits well.

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fill in the blacks, kiddo...

Can it be fixed with some expense of chemicals or is it perceived as not worthy?

>hes never heard of crop rotation

Planting the same crops over and over is not sustainable and removes nutrients without putting any back in. It’s why they do crop rotation, or should at least. Without diversity of plants to create an actual ecosystem, soil turns to shit. Combined with over use of artificial fertilizers and pesticides and other chemicals, plus pollution—it’s not good for long term soil sustainability. It leads to desert eventually like in the dust bowl or west Africa currently.

It depends on where you live, and the economical structure and freedom of your country.

Generally speaking, this is what happens:

Essentially you are at the producer of goods that everyone needs to survive, so you have a guarantee that what you are doing is going to somewhat sell and you can use the products yourself.

-You can sell directly to the customer, and set your price according to similar products on the market. However selling to the customer has some overhead. Paying for moving products, paying for selling license/rights, paying for your market spot/shelf spot. If you have no capital this is difficult.

-You can sell to another business that buys your products at large quantities but cheaper, in fact the price they demand is the one you are going to (realistically) have to accept. This has no overhead, you get rid of your product in large batches and cheap prices, you also have a good estimate of the production you need to meet.

-You can sell a not-so-necessary-but-of-high-value product that is rare. There are many kinds of products such as Saffron that can sell for insane amounts. In this case you are very specialized and sell small quantities but have a larger income, and of course larger risk.

-You also need to have the farming know how. If you can't grow even a simple pepper plant, you are doomed.

Of course fag, here in shit hole farmers are the fucking ELITE

You're a multimillionaire for part of the year then near or below bankruptcy levels during other parts, I know how it goes

>toxic and nutrient deprived
do farmers in the UK not know how to do crop rotations?

Almost no one knowledgeable is explaining this one. I dont want to read yet again about crop rotation. Explain the actual chemical problem.

Farm houses mate. That's what all the clever farmers are doing these days.