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It seems like with all of the price/production data out there these days it would be easier to decide what to grow. Or perhaps that data is not accessible to th
by zip1234 8y ago
It seems like with all of the price/production data out there these days it would be easier to decide what to grow. Or perhaps that data is not accessible to the average farmer?
- Loughla 8y agoEx-Farmer here who still rents out land to a current farmer. The type and amount of data they have is startling. The issue is there are so many variables that are uncontrollable, or unpredictable in the time frame of a year or an entire growing season. These include weather and climate, and political climate across the world. When a small-time farmer from my neck of the woods can sell directly to China, he has to worry about our politics and theirs, as well as the weather here, there, and at all stops between. So, in other words, it's easier to predict what will be worth more, but no more easy to predict what will grow or what will sell well in 2 years or so. Add in soil conditions and requirements and costs, and you have a complicated picture.