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Eh, if you stick to specialty crops you might have a chance, I assume the long term plan is to pivot to Marijuana as it gets legalized in more states? At least
by trome 10y ago
Eh, if you stick to specialty crops you might have a chance, I assume the long term plan is to pivot to Marijuana as it gets legalized in more states?
At least in Wisconsin & Iowa, I know from family & friends that the smallest plot your gonna make a run at farming with is 500 acres, anything less than that and you should lease your land out to someone who has the scale to make the economics work.
Re: food waste, most isn't occurring at the farm or distribution hubs (Savon, Unified Grocers, etc), its actually the stores where things are going bad & getting yard wasted. Locally sourcing produce doesn't seem to reduce this either, mainly due to the unpredictability of produce sales. Unless you can cut the time to market lag to a few days for the demand response, food waste is not going to be reduced significantly in the US.